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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Unarmed, albumen equable 



Armed, albumen ruminate 

 Male flowers symmetrical. 



Flowers in pairs 1 male 1 female 

 Flowers in tbrees 2 males and 1 female. 



Spathcs large caducous 



Spathes sheathing persistent 



2. CAKYOTIDAE. inflorescence panicled 

 appearing at the top of the stem when adult 

 and then downwards alternately unisexual. 

 Spathes short persistent. 



Very large palms. Leaflets linear 

 Dwarf palms. Leaflets cuneate ••• 

 Tall palms. Leaves bi-pinnate with cune- 

 ate leaflets 



4. Orania. 



5. Oncosperma. 



6. Pty ' chora phis 



7. Cyrtostachys. 



8. Iguanura. 



9. Arenga. 



10. Didymospcrma. 



11. Caryota. 



3. Nipeae. Stem stout creeping. Leaves 

 pinnatisect leaflets narrow. Inflorescence 

 with several bracts bisexual. Male flowers in 

 dense catkins, female in a globose head. Fruit 



a large syncarp of obvoid 1 seeded carpels ••• 12. Nipa. 



4. PHOENICEAE. Leaves stiff pinnatisect, 

 leaflets narrow folded in at base. Inflorescence 

 unisexual branches fascicled. 



Spathe large solitary deciduous. Seed 



oblong ventrally groovod 



5. CORYPHEAE. Leaves cuneate or orbi- 

 cular, entire or cut into linear or cuneate lobes. 

 Inflorcscenco terminal or axillary. Spathes 

 numerous tubular persistent. Flowers bisex- 

 ual ovary 3 lobed or 3 carpellary or entire. 

 Leaves orbicular deeply cut into cuneate trun- 

 cate sogments, rarely ontiro 



Leaves orbicular, segments acuminate. 



Fruit small, albumen equable 



Fruit large albumen ruminate 

 Leaves obcuneate ontire vory largo 



6. LEPIDOCARYEAE. Leaves pinnatisect, 

 leaflets numerous narrow linear, lancoolate or 

 broadly cuneate. Inflorescence axillary or ter- 

 minal. Spathes cymbiform caducous, or tubu- 

 lar persistent, numerous. Flowers unisexual 



13. Phoenix. 



14. Ltcuala. 



15. Livistona. 



16. Pholidocarpus. 



17. Tcysmanma. 



