2. Lieu all] .94. PALMJS. [5. Phcekix. 



L. 3-5 ft. diam. with a deciduous rufous tomentum. Lflts. 4-10 7 wide 

 at top truncate, sharply plaited with rounded retuse or emarginate lobes. 

 Petiole 3-4 ft. with stout literal reflexed spines. Spathes 12'' with 3-4 

 sharp teeth, Fls. sub-sessile. Calyx obconic £-£ v toothed. CoroUa-lobe$ 

 hard spreading or erect ovate-lanceolate acute downy, lobes as long as 

 eaJ^x-tube. Bt. 6. Ovary of 3-1 nearly free carpels. Style as long. 

 Fr. ellipsoid \'' orange. 



Leaves used for mats, etc. Elephants feed on the lower parts of the 

 stem. 



3. Caryota, L. 



l. C. urens, L. Man, JET. 



A beautiful erect palm 30-40 ft. with trunk slightly 

 ringed, immense bi-pinnate leaves 15-20 ft. with alt. 

 obcuneate leaflets 4-8", obliquely praemorse and much 

 jagged. Fls. innumerable on the numerous branches of a 

 drooping spadix many feet long. 



Northern steep ravines. Once fairly frequent near Tuia in the Saitba 

 forest, etc., but now unfortunately nearly extinct, having been cut down 

 by the Kol8 for its sago. PI. May- Aug. 



The flowers are monoecious, 3-nate, a female between two males. 

 Bepals rounded. Petals linear-oblong in M., rounded in F. 8t. many. 

 Ovary 3-celled. 



Cocos nucifera, Willd. Narial, H. The Cocoa-nut Palm is 

 occasionally seen planted near villages. The fruit is described as a 

 coriaceous drupe with a fibrous pericarp. Two of the three scars on the 

 nut are said to represent the blind germ-pores of the two aborted carpels. 

 The large leaves are pari-pinnate. 



5. Pluenix, L. Khajur, H. 



Trees, or almost stemless shrubs, with pinnate leaves of 

 which the leaflets usually lie in different planes, the lowest often 

 converted into spines. Dioecious. Fls. coriaceous, small. 

 M. calyx 3 -toothed, pet. 3, valvate ; st. usually 6. F. globose 

 calyx accrescent, pet. rounded imbricate, stmdes. 6 or a 

 6 -toothed cup ; carpels 3 free, of which one only develops 

 into a berry with a more or less fleshy pericarp. 



I. P. acaulis, Buck. Earn. Kita, K. ; Pind Khajur, IT. 



Stem hardly any, or thick and ovoid covered with the 



persistent leaf bases, lflts. fascicled, not in one plane, lowest 



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