104 cxLVii. PALM^ (wright). [Phcenix. 



Mozamb. Slst. German East Africa : Ugalla River, Bohm, 42a (ex Drude) ; 

 Usambara ; coast region. Hoist, 2847, mountains to 6200 ft.. Hoist, and Pangani 

 River, 2600 ft., Volkens, 462 (ex Drude). British Central Africa : Xyasaland ; 

 Fort Hill and Songue, Whyte ! Central regions of tlie continent and on the coast, 

 ex Kirk. 



Also in South Africa. 



5. RAPHIA, P. Beauv. ; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. iii. 935. 



Male flower : Calyx tubular, entire or minutely toothed. Corolla 

 curved ; petals 3, linear-lanceolate, valvate. Stamens 6-16, inserted at 

 the base of the petals ; filaments subulate or thickened and connate at 

 the base ; anthers erect, linear, inserted near their bases. Rudiment 

 of ovary none. Female flower larger than the male. Calyx as in 

 the male. Corolla more or less campanulate, 3-toothed. Staminodes 

 in a 6- to many-toothed cup adnate to the corolla. Ovary 3-celled, 

 retrorsely scaly ; stigmas sessile, recurved, subulate ; ovule inserted 

 slightly above the base of the cells. Fruit large, oblong or ellipsoid, 

 rostrate, 1 -seeded, covered with retrorsely imbricate scales; pericarp 

 thick; endocarp spongy; seed laterally fixed, oblong, sulcate ; hilum 

 lateral; raphe linear with reticulate branches; albumen bony, solid, 

 ruminate ; embryo ventral. — Monocarpic palms, unarmed or with the 

 sheaths only armed. Stems erect, simple or dichotomously branched, 

 densely annulate. Leaves in a terminal crown, equally pinnatisect ; 

 leaflets linear-lanceolate, acuminate, margins recurved at the base and 

 setose or aculeolate, rhachis not produced at the apex. Spadices monoe- 

 cious, large, pendulous, cylindrical, much-branched ; branches and 

 branchlets thick, compressed, the latter pectinately arranged, densely 

 covered with cup-shaped bracts ; common spathe none. Flowers solitary 

 in each bract, the male at the base of the ultimate branches of the 

 spadix, the female at the apex. 



Species about 12 in Tropical Africa and the Mascarene Islands, and 1 in Tropical 

 America. 



Fruit more or less turbinate. 



Fruit-scales rounded at the apex . . . . 1. ^. Mvffia. 



Fruit-scales acuminate . . . . . . 2. R. textilis. 



Fruit cylindrical or ellipsoid. 



Stamens 6. Scales of fruit in 12 rows . . . 3. -K. Monhiiitorum. 



Stamens 8. Fruit oval-ellipsoid, with 8-10 rows of 



scales . . . . . . . . 4. 5. Gc£rtnerL 



Stamens 10. Fruit cylindric-ellipsoid, with 8-9 



rows of scales . . . . . . . 5. i2. vinifera. 



Stamens 15. Fruit long oval, with 12 rows of scales 6. R. longiflora. 

 Stamens 16. Fruit oval-ellipsoid, with 12-15 rows 



of scales 7. -B. HooJceri. 



1, R. Ruffia, Mart Palm. iii. 217. Stem 6-26 ft. high, 1 ft. 

 thick. Leaves up to 65 ft. long; petiole up to 13 ft. long, 10 lin. thick. 

 Calyx of male flowers pedicelled. Fruit obovate or pyriform, somewhat 

 depressed and mucronate at the apex ; scales in 12-15 rows, very convex, 



