Ptychosperma. | CXXXIII. PALME. 141 
numerous, the longer ones 1$ ft. long $ to 1 in. broad, acuminate and 
entire or slightly notched, green above, ashy-glaucous or white under- 
eath. Spatha 1} ft. long. Panicle when open above 1 ft. long and 
more acute 1 ans, the outer segments about 1 line long, 
slightly imbricate. Stamens usually 9 or 10, but varying in the flowers 
examined from o 14, the filaments very short. Female perianth 
length. Fruit ovoid-globular, 7 to 9 lines long. Ovary and 
seed of the genus. —- Fl. des Serres., t. 1916 (copied from 
ssp Archontopheniz Alexandre, Wendl. and Drude in Linnea, 
mx. 212. - ` 
Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 1858, 346.—A tall palm 
van I. 
t. 4961, not of R. Br.; <Archontophenix Cunning- 
Drude in Linnea, xxxix. 214. 
arg cue Sunday Island (E. coast, near Cape York), 4. Cunningham ; Rock- 
N. S, Wales 
OOK, b: 5 
leni Wendl. iS 
Ps species, if really distinct from P. elegans, is as yet very imperfectly known, 
C : 
lat ge ephamiz Veitchii, Wendl. and Drude in Linnea, xxxix. 213, known only in 
0 not appear to me to differ from P. Cunninghamii, judging at least from 
Shanesy's Rockhampton specimen. 
i e UC Megans, Blume, Rumphia; i. 118,-—Variously desoribod.as 5 
or very tall palm. Leaves attaining several feet, the segments 
il o 
Faris the main rhachis flattened or angular, the ends of the spikes 
lines ee, the n scarcely excavated. Male perianth about 2 
che 
a lone the bud straight and obtuse, the outer segments about half 
8- Stamens from under 10 to above 20, the filaments shorter 
spreads Perhaps ultimately as long as the anthers. Female perianth 
nients po, ner the fruit to a diameter of above 3 lines, the inner seg- 
lm not much longer than the outer. Fruit ovoid-globose, nearly 
a diameter, Albumen deeply and irregularly ruminate.—Seaforthia 
