Order 122. Palmece. 357 



2. PINANGA. Leaves pinnate, upper leaflets running together, 

 flowers 3 together, a female between 2 males, the females much 

 the smallest, stamens 6 or more, stigmas 3. 



3. CARYOTA. Leaves few, very large, very deeply divided, 

 leaflets very oblique, bases swollen at the insertion, spathes 3 

 to 5, spadices branched ; flowers solitary, or in 3's, the middle 

 one being female; stamens very numerous, filaments very 

 short, anthers long, stigma 3-lobed, fruit round. 



TRIBE 2. PHCENICE^I. 



4. PHCENIX. Flowers dioecious, leaves pinnate, leaflets 

 sword-shaped ; spadices several, calyx cup-shaped, stamens 6 ; 

 female flowers with 6 staminodes or a 6-toothed cup, carpels 3. 



TRIBE 3. LEPIDOCARPE^E. 



5. CALAMUS. Armed, erect or climbing, leaves pinnate, 

 spadices long, much-branched, spathes many, tubular, persistent, 

 calyx cup-shaped, 3-toothed, stamens 6, filaments short ; in 

 female flowers the staminodes form a cup, stigmas 3, fruit 

 roundish. 



TRIBE 4. BORASSE^E. 



6. BORASSUS. Leaves fan-shaped, spathes numerous, sheath- 

 ing; flowers dioecious, males minute, sunk in the cavities of the 

 catkin-like branches, stamens 6, females larger, sessile on the 

 very short branches of a stout spadix ; staminodes 6 to 9, stig- 

 mas 3, drupe large with 3 pyrenes. 



TRIBE 5. COCCINE-E. 



7. Cocos. Leaves very deeply divided, leaflets narrow, 

 spadix erect, panicled ; flowers monoecious, spathes 2 or more, 

 male flowers unsymmetric, stamens 6, females much larger, 

 perianth increasing, fruit large ovoid one-seeded. 



1. ARECA. 



A. catechu. Betel nut tree. Leaves 4 to 6 feet long, spathe 

 glabrous compressed, stamens 6 ; in the female the staminodes 

 are united ; fruit smooth, orange or scarlet. Poplili ; the nut 



Grown in gardens about the coast ; the most slender and elegant 

 of Indian palms, "raising its graceful stem and feathery crown ' like 

 an arrow shot down from heaven.' " Hooker. The use of the nut 

 with pan leaves is universal. 



2. PlNANGA. 



P. Dicksonii. Leaves about 4 feet long, leaflets long, broadly 



