808 CXXXVIII. PALM.^. 



6, ill male flowers about 9. Ovary S-gouous ; ovules basilar ; style 

 short; stigma 3-tootheil. Drupe small, globose or oblong, l-seeded. 

 Seed free, erect, ventrally hollowed; hilum small; albumen uaiform ; 

 embryo dorsal or sub-basilar. — Disxrib. India (Sind and the Panjab) ; 

 Afghanistan ; species 1. 



1. Nannorrhops Ritchieana, Gnff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 V. 5 (1845) p. 342 (under Chamcerojys). Gregarious, the leaves usually 

 tufted from an underground much-branched rhizome 8-10 ft. long, as 

 thick as a man's arm, at times from an erect branching stem reaching 

 20 ft. high. Leaves 2-3 ft. long and broad, cuneately flabellate, rigid, 

 plicate, greyish-green, consisting of 8-15 linear rigid segments 12-15 in. 

 long, with often interposed fibres, folded, 2-partite ; petioles unarmed, 

 concave, with a mass of rust-colored m^ooI at the base. Tlowers 

 polygamous, male and hermaphrodite. Spadix pyramidal; branches 

 ascending and recurved ; branchlets slender. Elouers in pairs in the 

 axils of hyaline bracts, distinct or connate, and bicuspidate. Calyx 

 thinly membranous, flat, 3-toothed. Petals connate at the base. Stamens 

 6 (sometimes 9 in the male flowers), in the male fl.owers inserted in the 

 corolla-tube, in hermaplirodite flowers in its throat. Ovary 3-celled, 

 narrowed into the short style. Pruit globose or ellipsoid, g-f in. in 

 diam. PI. B. I. v. 6, p. 429 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 (1899) 

 p. 526; Brandis, Ind. Trees (1906) p. 655.— Plowers : Aug.-Nov. 



In the Bombay Presidency confined to Sind. Sind : Woodrow, Talbot, Brandis. — 

 DiSTRiii. India (Panjab) ; Afghanistan. 



7. CORYPHA, Linn. 



Tall, stout, unarmed palms, dying after once flowering and ripening 

 their seed, at the age of between 20 and 40 years. Leaves verj'^ large, 

 orbicular or lunate, fiabellately multifid, the segments folded lengthwise ; 

 petioles stout, concave, spinous at the edges. Plowers small, herma- 

 phrodite. Spadix large, terminal, erect, pyramidally paniculate. Spathes 

 many, tubular. Calyx cupular, 3-fid. Petals 3, connate at the base, 

 ovate, acute, imbricate or subvalvate. Stamens 6 ; filaments subulate ; 

 anthers dorsifixed. Ovary 3-lobed, 3-celled; ovules basilar, erect in 

 each cell ; style short, subulate ; stigma minute. Pruit usually 1 globose 

 drupe with 2 abortive carpels at the base. Seed erect, globose or oblong; 

 albumen uniform ; embryo spiral. — Distmb. Tropical Asia ; species 6. 



1. Corypha umbraculifera, Linn. Sp. PI. (1753) p. 1187. Trunk 

 erect, straight, cylindric, 3U-80 by 2-3 ft., annulate. Leaves 8-16 ft. 

 in diam., plicate, cleft to about the middle into 80-100 linear-lanceolate 

 acute or 2-fid lobes; petioles 5-10 ft. long, very stout, the margins 

 armed with short, compressed, dark-coloi'ed spines. Spadix pyramidal, 

 10-20 ft. long, decompound, shortly and stoutly pedunculate ; peduncles 

 clothed with tubular spathes which are pierced by the pj-imary branches; 

 branches of the spadix forming pendulous spikes. Calyx broadly 3-lobed. 

 Petals oblong, about yV in. long. Ovary suddenly contracted into the 

 style. Drupe shortly stipitate, globose, 14 in. in diam., with 2 small 

 arrested carpels at its base. Seeds globose, very hard, smooth and 



