Uyphcene,'] cxlvii. palm.e (wrigiit). Ill) 



branches subfastigiate ; bracts semicircular, very densely imbricate; 

 bracteoles membranous, bearded. 



A genus of about 15 species, extending into Arabia and Madagascar. Many of 

 the species are described from imperfect material and are ill-detiiied. 

 Stem cylindrical. 

 Stem dichotomous. 



Fruit turbinate-pyriform, sliallowly furrowed . I. H. coriacea. 

 Fruit long pyriform, obtusely keeled . . . 2. H. Wendlandii. 



Fruit obliquely ovoid, obscurely trigonous . . ^. H. thebaica. 



Stem nnbranched. 



Petiole concavo-convex. Fruit shortly turbinate . 4. II. gnineensis. 

 Petiole deeply chnnnelled above ; ligule equi- 

 lateral. Fruit oblonn^ or obovoid . . h. H. crinita. 

 Petiole plano-convex ; ligule oblique. Fruit oblique 



at the base Q. H. Qoetzei. 



Stem ventricose 1. H. rentricosa. 



1. H. coriacea, Gcertn. Fruct. i. 28, t. ^(),Jic/. '2. Stem ;J0 ft. high, 

 dichotomously branched. Fruit turbinate-pyriform, shallovvly furrowed, 

 broadest above the middle, fiat at the apex; fibres of the pericarp 

 shorter than the triangular putamen ; cavity of putamen oblong. 

 Seed ovoid-ellipsoid, attached by its centre. — Mart, in ]\Iiinch. gel. 

 Anzeig. 1888, 689; Kirk in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 234; Wendl. in Bot. 

 Zeit. 1881, 1)3; Engl. PH.. Ost-Afr. B. 25, C. 130; Drude in Engl. 

 Jahrb. xxi. 110, 122. Corypha africana, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 213; 

 Wendl. in Kerchove, Palm. 247. 



Mozaxub. Dlst. German East Africa : on the coast, Usambara, Hoist, 3172, 

 3174 (ex Drude) ; on the Rovuma Kiver, 8-12 miles from the sea coast. Kirk. 

 " Eastern Africa, in woods," ex Loureiro. 



Kirk (I.e.) distinguishes two varieties thus : — (1) Stem 30 ft. high, much branched ; 

 fruit smaller and less flattened than in the following. (2) Often a bush with a 

 small stem rarely branched more than once ; fruit deep brown, much Huttened at 

 the apex. The latter, which is said to be abundant at the mouth of the Zambesi, 

 may be the same as Drude's variety minor, from Pondoland (Engl. Jahrb. xxi. 110, 122). 



Also in Madagascar. 



2. H. Wendlandii, Dammer in Engl. Jahrb. xxviii. 353. A tree 

 V)5-82 ft. high, usually much branched. Leaves flabellate, 3;^ ft. 

 long, 4^ ft. broad ; petiole concavo-convex in the lower part, plano- 

 convex above, glabrous, with dark brown curved spines 7-16 lin. 

 apart on the margins ; ligule very oblique, aculeate-dentate ; rhachis 

 prolonged nearly to the middle of the leaf, densely spiny above the 

 base ; lamina with about 48 lobes, minutely spiny on the neives above 

 the base. Male inflorescence racemose ; branches bearing 1-4 spikes 

 6-8 in. long near the apex ; bracts cylindrical, oblique, acute ; bracteoles 

 widely cochleariform, truncate, bearded at the sides. Calyx mem- 

 branous, turbinate, Ij lin. long, 3-toothed. Corolla 3-partite ; lobes 

 oblong, obtuse. Stamens (> ; filaments subulate, the three inner dilated 

 at the base, 1 lin. long. Rudiment of ovary very minute. Female 

 inflorescence racemose, '2-2^ ft. long; branches bearing 1, rai-ely 2, 

 cylindrical spikes at the apex about 8 in. long, 4 lin. in diam. ; bract 



