Licuala.| CXXXIII. PALME. 145 
or ring and very shortly free ; anthers rta: Ovary laterally 3- 
lobed, the carpels readily separating, with 1 erect ovule in each ; ; Style 
columnar, with 3 small stigmas. Fruit globular, reduced by abortion 
Seed erect, the hilum somewhat lateral. Albumen horny with a deep 
irregularly branched excavation on the inner side, filled with a 
brown spongy tissue. Embryo dorsal.—Palms usually slender or low. 
Leaves large, fan-shaped but aali closed all round so as to appear 
peltate, the plicate lobes more or ae truncate and toothed at the 
end. Panicles from among the leaves, often long, the partial panicles 
saan ee bracts iniit divided into few spreading spikes. 
ow 
Bok genus is widely spread over tropical Asia, the only Australian species too 
? known to determine how far it may be endemic or distinct 
l. L. Muelleri, Wendl. and Drude in Linnea, xxxix. 223.—Youn 
trees described as 30 ft. high. Leaves closed all round so as to appear 
peltate, plicate, and divided to more than half the length into truncate 
lobes obtusely toothed and j jagge ed and 2 to 3in. broad at the end, the whole 
leaf fo a flat stiff shi eld-like disk 65 ft. across. Flowers un- 
o5 
larly i eig Aas Embryo dorsal.— Livistona Ramsayi, 
Muell i. 221. 
toners ars eni Dail e Gap, Rockingham Bay, Dallachy. He y the 
ers are unknown it i FSE EE p that Wendland and Drude are in trans- 
foting this p from cane i to Licuala, but its precise affinities nie remain 
the present undete 
10. LIVISTONA, R. Br. 
soa hermaphrodite, in a loose panicle, with sheathing bracts on 
, ovate. Ovary laterally 3-lobed, the Bin readily sepa- 
rating, with 1 e erect ovule in each. S tyle shortly columnar, with a3-toothed 
Thar ett not thick, hard when dry. Seed erect, the hilum some” 
filled Albumen with a deep broad excavation on the inner side, 
ed with a ‘brown spongy tissue. Embryo dorsal.— Low or tall erect 
ys. Leaves fan-shaped, diner the lobes or segments acuminate 
rede or 2-cleft, and frequently a small bristle or filament between 
heres Panicles us sually ems. d decompound the 
ea TS prey gno soifas or clustered along the slender 
CMM tr mh which are endemic, there aro a very few fom the 
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