93. MABANTACEM. 



1. Phrynium, Willd. 



Herbs with creeping rootstock, and stem with a single 

 large broad leaf and a lateral dense head or spike of flowers. 

 Corolla-lobes linear-oblong spreading. Ovary 3-celled. Fr. 

 globose indehiscent or tardily dehiscent. 



1. P. capitatum, Willd. 



A herb 4-5 ft. high with the large elliptic-oblong leaf 

 1-1 ^ ft. by 6-8" and a solitary sessiie hemispherical spike 3" 

 diam. of pnrple flowers. Bracts rigid, tip almoat spinons. 

 Capsule 3-lobed, 3-valved. 



Gregarious in marshy places in dense shade, Singbhum. Not common. 

 Fls. March. 



2. P. parviiiorum, Roxb. 



Much resembles the .last, but sessile spike 1-2'' diam., fls. white and 

 fr. usually only 1-lobed and seeded. 



Chota Nagpur, Train. 



Fam. 94. PAL5LE. 



Trees, rarely shrubs, usually with an erect unbranched 

 stem bearing a crown of large leaves, sometimes scandertt 

 naked or prickly, rarely stem 0. L. simple palmately or 

 pinnately nerved, or palmately or pinnately divided, petiole 

 sheathing. Fls. small regular (somewhat irregular in Areca) 

 in spikes or panicles subtended by one or more spathes. 

 Perianth-leaves usually dry and rigid free or connate, usually 

 in two 3-merous whorls as also are the stamens, rarely st. 

 3, 9, or more (oc in Caryota), Carpels 3 or by suppression 

 1, free or united, superior. Ovule 1 in each carpel. Fr. 

 baccate .or drupaceous. Seeds 1-3, with horny or stony 

 albumen, sometimes ruminate. 



1 Erect Fan palms, (i.e. L. simple palmately-nerved) 



Large trees. L. flabelliform. Fls dioecious, F. 



large . ...... 1. Boraseu*. 



Small trees L. orbicular, deeply partite. FU. £• 



sexual, not large . . . ... 2 Licuala. 



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