418 CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) \_Iguanura. 



sheath as long, tubular, mouth truncate. Spadix 4-3 in., peduncle f-1^ in., 

 branches 3-6 in., scattered, filiform ; flowers minute. Fruit % by i in. 



9. BENTINCK.IA, !!. ,-,;. 



Unarmed Palms. Leaves terminal, equally pinnatisect. Spathes many, 

 2 lower short incomplete, upper 2-fid. Spadix interfoliar, branched; 

 flowers minute, monoecious or polygamous, solitary or 3-nate with the 

 intermediate female, clustered in spirally arranged pits on the branches ; 

 bracts forming a 2-lipped mouth to each pit ; bracteoles 2. Male fl. sub- 

 symmetric, glumaceous, often reduced to ciliate scales ; sepals oblong, 

 obtuse, connate below, imbricate ; petals longer, connate below into a stipes, 

 valvate; stamens 6, anthers versatile; pistillode conical. Fern. fl. ovoid ; 

 sepals broad, obtuse, imbricate ; petals longer, convolute ; staminodes 6, 

 minute. Ovary 3-celled, 1-ovuled; stigmas minute. Fruit small, sub- 

 spherical ; stigmas subbasilar. Seed pendulous from the top of the cavity, 

 sinuately grooved or ridged; albumen equable. Species 2. 



1. 32. Coddapanna, Berry, in Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 621 ; stem slender 

 10-20 ft., fruit subspherical. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 165, 228, t. 139 ; 

 Kunth Enum. iii. 228 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 467; Palm* 

 Brit. Ind. 160 ; Append, xxvi. ; Wight in Madv. Journ. Nat. Sc. ii. 385. 

 Keppleria, Mart. mss. ex Endl. Gen. PI. 25. 



TEAVANCORE, Wight, &c. 



A slender palm ; stem 1 in. diam. or more, annulate. Leaves 3-1 ft. ; leaflets 

 2 ft. or more by 1 in. broad, close together, linear, 2-keeled, keels paleaceous, tip 

 usually 2-fid ; lobes 2-1 in., triangular. Spathes membranous, lower truncate, 

 upper complete. Spadix 1-2 ft., male scarlet, fern, lilac or violet ; peduncle 2-3 in. ; 

 branches few, again branched, ultimate 6-10 in.; bract at the base broad ; pits 

 on the branches 3-4-fld., flowers emerging and opening singly, the upper first. 

 Fruit rather compressed, about in. diam. 



2. B. nicobarica, Becc. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 165 ; trunk 

 tall 60-70 ft., fruit obovoidly oblong tip rounded. Orania nicobarica, 

 Kurz in Journ. Bot. xiii. (1875) 331, t. 171, f. 19-25. 



NICOBAB ISLANDS ; Kamorta, Kurz, E. H. Man. 



Trunk annulate, 9 in. diam. Leaves 5-8 ft. ; leaflets ^-2 ft., sessile, linear, 

 coriaceous, tip obtusely 2-lobed; petiole short and racnis glabrous. Spadix 1^-2 ft., 

 decompound, glabrous, branches and branchlets inserted in woolly grooves of the 

 rachis ; bracteoles densely villous within. Fein. fl. ; sepals and petals subsimilar, 

 broadly ovate, obtuse, shining. Fruits tristichously arranged, globose (sub-ovoid 

 when dry), the size of a cherry. Seed ovoid-oblong, ventrally flat, dorsally convex 

 rugosely ribbed ; albumen equable ; embryo lateral and apical. 



10. WAXiXiXCHXA, Roxl. 



Soboliferous palms. Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets linear or oblong, 

 irregularly toothed, base cuneate, unicostate, nerves flabellate. Spathes 

 very many, tubular, clothing the peduncle of the spadix, upper large 

 cymbiforin. Spadices interfoliar, monoecious or polygamous; males ovoid, 

 excessively branched and dense-fld. ; fern, looser-fld. Malefl. symmetric; 

 calyx cylindric or cupular, membranous, truncate ; corolla cylindric, deeply 

 3-lobed, lobes oblong, valvate; stamens 6, on the corolla-tube; filaments 

 shoit, anthers large; pistillode 0. Fern. fl. much smaller, subglobose ; 



