404 CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 



* Spathes many; flowers symmetric; stigma in the fruit terminal. 



Male calyx tubular. Stamens 6. Albumen equable ... 10. WALLICHIA. 



Male calyx cupular. Stamens many. Albumen equable . 11. DIDYMOSPEEMA. 



Male sepals 3. Stamens many. Albumen equable. . . . 12. AEENQ-A. 



Male sepals 3. Stamens many. Albumen ruminate ... 13. CARYOTA. 



** Spathes 2 ; flowers unsymmetric ; stigma in the fruit basilar. 



Male calyx minute. Stamens 3 or 6, extrorse. Albumen 



equable 14. CRANIA. 



ANOMALOUS GENUS. 



Male fl. in catkin-like branches of a drooping androgynous 

 spadix ; fern, capitate at the apex of the spadix .... 15. NIPA. 



TRIBE II. Phceniceae. Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets with indnplicate 

 sides. Spadices interfoliar ; spathe solitary. Flowers dioecious. Ovary 

 of 3 free carpels, one only ripening. Seed ventrally grooved ; embryo 

 usually dorsal. 



16. PHCENIX. 



TEIBE III. Corypheae. Leaves flabelliform, orbicular or cuneiform, 

 plaited, lobes or segments with induplicate sides. Spadices interfoliar; 

 spathes many. Flowers usually bisexual. Ovary entire or 3-lobed, or of 

 1-3 smooth carpels. Fruit smooth, except Phulidocarpus. Seeds with a 

 small hilum ; raphe ventral. 



* Stigma in the fruit basal. Albumen equable. 



Ovary 3-lobed; style short. Embryo apical 17. CORYPHA. 



Ovary 3-celled ; style subulate. Embryo dorsal .... 18. NANNORHOPS. 



** Stigma in the fruit terminal. Albumen equable ; embryo dorsal. 



Ovary of 3 trigonous carpels ; style filiform 11). LICUALA. 



Ovary of 3 globose carpels ; styles 3, free or coherent . . 20. LIVISTONA. 



*** Albumen ruminate ; embryo basal. 



Fruit small, smooth 21. TRACHYCARPUS. 



Fruit large, tuberculate or tessellate 22. PHOLIDOCARPUS. 



TRIBE IV. Xiepidocarpeee. Leaves pinnatisect, leaflets with redu- 

 plicate sides. Spadices interfoliar or terminal ; spathes usually many. 

 Ovary 1-3-celled. Fruit clothed with reflexed shining closely imbri- - 

 eating appressed scales. Leaves copiously and strongly armed, except 

 Metroxylon. 



* Polycarpic palms, flowering annually. 



f Leaflets acuminate, quite entire, nerves parallel. 



Stem elongate. Spathes tubular, persistent ...... 23. CALAMUS. 



Stem elongate. Spathes cymbiform or open, deciduous . . 24. DJEMONOBHOPS. 

 Stem short or 0. Spathes many, persistent 25. ZALACCA. 



ft Leaflets rhomboid cuneate or oblanceolate, toothed; nerves flabellate.* ^ 



Stem short or 0. Spathe? inanv, persistent 26. KORTHALSTA. 



Stem sraiuK-nt. Sputhe solitary, deciduous 27. CERATOLOBLS. 



