Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 159 



i inch long. Calyx very short, flat lobes flat rounded. Petals very 

 much longer linear ribbed. Stamens shorter slender. Female inflores- 

 cence stouter branches whorled and scattered 5-9 inches long flowers 

 scattered. Calyx lobes rounded. Petals orbicular twice as long. 

 Staminodes 6. Drupe k inch long black seed elliptic grooved f inch 

 long k inch thick. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm III. 272, 320 t 136. Kunth. 

 Enum. III. 256. Griff. Calc Journ. Nat. Hist. V 353. Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 144, t. 229. A.B. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI 427. P. siamensis 

 Miq. Palm Arch. Ind. 14. 



Dindings : Lumut (Eidley) ; Province Wellesley : Prai, Krian ; 

 Kedah : Yan (Ridley). Distrib. India, Siam, Andamans. Inhabits 

 tidal swamps. Native name " Korma." 



5. COEYPHEAE. 



14. LlCU ALA. 



Palms with solitary or several sterns from a few inches to 15 feet 

 tall. Leaves cuneate or orbicular plicate deeply cut into cuneate seg- 

 ments, petiole spinous. Inflorescence interfoliar, elongate with tubu- 

 lar appressed sheaths, spathes. Spikes simple or compound from the 

 axils of the sheaths, short many flowered glabrous or tomentose or 

 scurfy. Flowers small hermaphrodite, scattered. Calyx cupular or 

 3 toothed. Petals connate base ovate. Stamens 6 filaments free or 

 connate in a ring. Ovary 3 carpels free or connate. Styles filiform 

 Drupe small globose or ellipsoid, style terminal. Seed globose albumen 



Species about 50. India, Malaya, Australia, Australia, Polynesia. 



Stem tall. Leaves large. Inflorescence elongate spikes. 



Calyx campanulate not lobed ... ... 1. L. paludosa. 



Calyx cylindric 3 lobed pubescent ... 2. L. sjnnosa. 



Calyx umshaped three toothed ... ••• 3. L. glabra. 



4. L. longepeduncu- 

 Calyx urnshaped not lobed ... ... lata. 



Calyx cylindric not lobed ..." ... ... 5. L. Malayana. 



Stemless with large leaves and stout in- 

 florescence. 

 Leaflets 10-13. Calyx cupshaped ... 6. L.ferruginea. 



Leaflets 20. Calyx cylindric ... ... 7. L. longipes. 



Inflorescence short and slender. 

 Flowers pedicellate. Calyx broad cam- 

 panulate ••• 8. L. Kunstleri. 



Flowers sessile. Calyx short lobes broad 9. L. acutifida. 

 Flowers sessile. Calyx cylindric lobes 



small ••• ... 10. L. modesta. 



Small palms, leaves small. Inflorescence of 2 

 or 3 slender branches 



