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OXV.—PALM apt 
Shrubs or trees, solitary or gregarious, naked or an rarely 
pubescent. Stem erect scandent or decumbent, rarely branched 
above. Leaves alternate, plicate in bud, pinnatisect or palmate, 
rarely entire or 2-pinnatisect, petiole sheathing. Flowers small, 
1- or 2-sexual, usually 3-bracteolate, in branched spikes or panicles 
and enclosed in one or more large sheathing spathes. Perianth 
inferior, 2-seriate; segments 3 in each series, ysually all free, 
imbricate or valvate. Stamens usually 6, inserted in 2 series 
opposite the perianth-segments, sometimes 3 opposite the outer 
series of segments, occasionally many at the base of the perianth, 
usually included; filaments free or connate, subulate or filiform, 
rarely flattened; anthers versatile, 2-celled, dehiscence lateral or 
-» extrorse. Ovary 3-1-celled or of three 1-celled carpels ; stigmas 3, 
usually sessile; ovules 1-2 in each carpel, adnate to the wall or 
base or top of the cell, anatropous. Fruit a 1-3-celled drupe or 
~~ hard berry, or of 1-3 carpels; pericarp smooth, rough, or clothed 
f with retrorse shining scales. Seeds erect or laterally attached, 
rarely pendulous, raphe usually branching all over the testa; 
~ albumen horny or bony, equable or ruminate, embryo small in a 
___eavity near the surface of the albumen.—Species about 1200, 
widely spread throughout the tropical and sub-tropical regions of 
both hemispheres. 
Trees or erect shrubs, not armed; fruit not 
clothed with scales P , o Le, CROIX, 
Scandent prickly shrubs; fruit clothed with 
reflexed shining closely apaenges im bricat- 
ing scales ; ‘ P / . 2. CaLamus. 
1. PHOENIX, Linn.; Fi. Brit. Ind. vi, 424. 
Tall or short simple or soboliferous palms. Leaves pinnatisect ; 
segments lanceolate or ensiform with induplicate margins. Flowers 
small, dicecious, yellowish, coriaceous, on usually several branched 
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