140 CXXXIII. PALME. [ Ptychosperma. 
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divided, the segments acuminate and entire or jagged or toothed at ye 
Inflorescence under the leaves, long and simple or branchen 
first enclosed in a rather thin spatha, with one or two sheaths or bracts 
below it. 
Besides the Australian species, which are probably all endemic, there are a few in 
e Malayan Archipelago and (if truly congeners) in New Caledonia. 
dland and Drude place Ptychosperma and Archontophenix in ^ division 
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ase, a character which I have verified in all the Australian species of the two gener 
of which I have had the female flowers. 
Spadix long and simple S QU. 1. P. laecospadiz. 
Spadix branched. 
Leaf-segments acuminate. Male buds mostly oblique and 
acute 
Leaf-segments whitish underneath. . . . . . . 2. P..Alezanar 
dre. | 
Leaf-segments green on both sides . . . . . . . 3. P. Cunningham. 
Leaf-segments jagged or truncate atthe end. Male buds 
straightand obtuse . . . . . . .. . . 4. P. elegans. 
Benth.—Stems “ 12 ft. high and 2 in. or more 1? 
carp, with a termi um. Albumen ruminate.— Laccospadiz 4 
i xxxix. 206. 
tralasicus, Wendl. and Drude in Linnea, 
Queensland. Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. 
2. P. Alexandre, F. Muell. Fragm. v. 47 213, t. 43, 44,—À tal 
palm the stem attaining 70 to 80 ft. Leaves several feet long, t is 
rhachis very broad and thick, glabrous or slightly scurfy, the segmen 
