Nenga.~\ CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 413 



staminodes 6 minute teeth. Fruit about 1| in. long by in. diam., ellipsoid ; stigmas 

 3, broad, triangular. 



4. XiOXOCOCCUS, S. Wendl. & Drude. 



Stem erect, annulate. Leaves pinnatisect, leaflets obliquely truncate. 

 Spadix infrafoliar, branched ; spathes 2 ; flowers 8 together (a fern, between 

 2 males) clusters spirally arranged. Male fl. Sepals 3, rounded, imbri- 

 cate ; petals 3, much larger, ovate, valvate; stamens 9-12, filaments very 

 short, anthers subversatile. Fem.fl. smaller, subglobose ; sepals rounded, 

 broadly imbricate ; petals ovate, base broad imbricate, tips valvate ; ovary 

 1-celled, stigmas 3, minute ; ovule parietal. Fruit subglobose, cuspidately 

 beaked, stigmas terminal ; albumen ruminate ; embryo subbasilar. 



Xi. rupicola, H. Wendl. & Drude in Linnsea, xxxix. 185; Hook. f. 

 Sot. Mag. t. 6358. Ptychosperma rupicola, Thw. Enum. 328. Caryota 

 mitis, Willd. ? ; Moon Gat. Geyl. PI. 64. 



CEYLON ; in forests of the Southern and Central Provinces. 



Trunk 30-40 ft. by 4-5 in. diam. Leaves 6-8 ft., spreading ; leaflets 12-20 pairs, 

 2 ft. by 2^ in., spreading, linear, subglaucous beneath, and sparsely furf'uraeeous ; 

 petiole 1-2 ft., sheath very short. Spathe 1 ft., pale yellow. Spadix 1 ft., blood- 

 red, subdeltoid ; peduncle short and branches stout spreading quite glabrous; 

 flowers in scattered clusters of 3. Male fl. % in. diam. ; filaments about equalling 

 the anthers; pistillode minute, 3-fld. at the tip. Fruit about 1 in. long, globosely 

 ovoid. Seed globose. 



5. PTYCHORAPHIS, Becc. 



Stem slender, annulate. Leaves pinnatisect, leaflets narrow, caudate- 

 acuminate. Spathes 2, complete, caducous. Spadix infrafoliar, panicu- 

 lately branched ; flowers spirally disposed, male only towards the tips of 

 the branches, a fern, between 2 males towards the base. Male Jl. sym- 

 metric ; sepals suborbicular ; petals valvate ; stamens 6, anthers versatile; 

 pistillode conical or columnar. Fern. fl. bibracteolate ; sepals rounded, 

 concave; petals longer, tips valvate; staminodes 4-6; ovary ovoid, 

 stigmas 3, triangular, acute : ovule parietal. Fruit small, ovoid, stigmas 

 terminal. Seed ovoid, obtuse, deeply grooved along the long linear 

 hilum ; albumen deeply ruminate ; embryo basilar, oblong. Species 3, 

 Malayan. 



1. P. singraporensis, Becc. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz.ii. 90, 1. 126; 

 Males, iii. 109 ; stem slender, leaflets about 1 ft. long very numerous, 

 spadix slender 5-7-branched, rachis rusty furfuraceous, fruit ovoid. 

 Ptychosperma singaporensis, Becc. Males, i. 61. Rhopaloblaste singa- 

 porensis, Hook. f. in Gen. PI. iii. 892. Drymophloeus singaporensis, 

 Hook.f. in Kew Gard. Rep. (1882) 1884, 55. 



SINGAPORE ; Mningay (Kew dist. 1536). JOHORE ; on Gunong Pulai, Hullett 

 (6000), Kunstler (230). 



Stem 6-12 ft. by 1 in. diam., soboliferous. Leaves 3-6 ft., regularly pin- 

 natisect; leaflets very many, alternate, straight, about 8 by 1| in., 3-nerved, upper 

 shorter, midrib beneath scaly ; petiole 2-2 ft. and rachis very slender, furfuraceous. 

 Spadix about 1 ft., 5-7-branched from the base ; flowers yellow. Fruit nearly f in. 

 long by i in. diam., ovoid or elliptic-ovoid, tip conical, slightly excentric. Seed tree, 

 elliptic-ovoid, rounded at both ends, raphe brunches descending to the base. 



