l8. PALMAE 113. 



18. Leaves with a long sheath. Spadices below the leaves. Seed with homo- 



geneous albumen ig 



Leaves with a rather short sheath. Spadices between the leaves. Seed 

 with ruminate albumen 20 



19. Seed obtusely triquetrous. Stamens 9. — Species i. SeycheUes. 



Deckenia Wendl. 



Seecf ellipsoid, slightly compressed laterally. Stamens usually 12. — 



Species 3. Madagascar and Mascarenes. Used in house-building and 



as ornamental plants Acanthophoenix Wendl. 



20. Leaves 2-cleft, with pinnately toothed margins 21 



Leaves irregularly pinnatisect 22 



21. Stamens 6. Seed and en docarp furrowed. Spadices with 3 spathes. Leaf- 



stalk prickly. — Species i. Seychelles. Used as an ornamental plant. 



Verschaffeltia Wendl. 



Stamens 15 — 20. Seed and endocarp not furrowed. Spadices with 2 



spathes. Leaf-stalk smooth. — Species i. Seychelles. Used as an 



ornamental plant. {Stevenson ia Duncan). Phoenicophorium Wendl. 



22. Stamer s 6. Seed elliptical. Spadices twice branched, with several spathes. — 



Species I. Seychelles. Used as an ornamental plant. Roscheria Wendl. 



Stamens 40 — 50. Seed kidney-shaped. Spadices once branched, with 



2 spathes.— Species i. Seychelles Nephrosperma Balf. 



23. (17.) Spadices with many tubular incomplete spathes, twice branched. 



Stamens 6. Ovary 3-celled. Stem tree-hke. — Species 4. Madagascar 

 and Mascarenes. Used as ornamental plants. The fruit is said to be 



poisonous Hyophorbe Gaertn. 



Spadices with i — 4 spathes, all or the uppermost complete (i.e. completely 

 enveloping the spadix, when young.) 24 



24. Spadices with 4 spathes, simple. Flowers sunk in pits on the spadix. 



Corolla valvate in bud. Stamens 6. Ovary 3-celled. Stem reed- 

 Uke. — Species i. West Africa. The fruit is edible. 



Podococcus Mann & W^endl. 



Spadices with i — 3 spathes ; it simple, then corolla of the female flowers 



imbricate in bud or stamens 3 or many 25 



25. Stamens numerous. Stigma i. Ovar}^ i -celled. Corolla valvate in bud. 



Spadices simple. Flowers sur=k in pits on the spadix. Stem short. — 



Species i. Equatorial West Africa. Sclerosperma Mann & Wendl. 



Stamens 3 — 6. Stigmas usually 3 26 



26. Stamens in the male flowers 3, staminodes in the female 6. Ovary with i 



fertile and 2 empty cells 27 



Stamens 6 28 



27. Stamens -opposite the petals, united at the base. — Species 3. Madagascar. 



Trichodypsis Baill. 

 Stamens alternating with the petals, free or almost free. — Species 7. Mada- 

 gascar. Used as ornamental plants. (Including Adelodypsis Becc.) 



Dypsis Nor. 



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