AEECACEAE. 59 



Pritchardia pacifica Seem. & Wendl., Samoan ; this species is recorded by 

 Jones as grown in Bermuda in 1873. 



Pritchardia Thurstoni Muell. & Drude, Fijian, 

 Oncosperma fasciculatum Thwaites, CeyloneJ^e. 

 Licuala grandis (Bull) Wendl., of New Britain. 

 Martinezia coroUina Mart, of Martinique. 

 Livistona Hoogendorfii Andre, Javan. 

 Dypsis madagascariensis Nicholson, Madagascan. 



Order 6. CYCLANTHALES. 



Herbs, shrubs or some species woody vines, with petioled flabellate 

 leaves and monoecious flowers in axillary, peduncled, fleshy, spadix-like 

 spikes, the perianth wanting or rudimentary. Staminate flowers with 

 many stamens, the anthers linear to oval. Pistillate flowers usually with 

 4 staminodes; ovary 1-celled, truncate or 4-lobed; stigmas 1 or 4; ovules 

 many. Fruit a fleshy syncarp. The order is composed of a single family. 



Family 1. CYCLANTHACEAE. 



Cyclanthus Family. 

 Six genera and about 40 species, natives of tropical America. 



Carludovica palmata R. & P., Panama-hat Plant, Peruvian, grown for 

 ornament, has long-petioled dark-green leaves '2°-3° broad, cleft into linear, 

 acuminate spreading and drooping segments. From the petioles the fibre is 

 obtained for weaving hats of fine quality, and in 1903 the Botanical Station 

 had some 7000 plants for distribution raised from seed, but the industry was 

 not established. 



Order 7. ARALES. 



Monoeotyledonous herbs, mostly fleshy. Inflorescence in the Araceae 



a fleshy spadix, subtended by a spathe, or naked. The Lemnaceae are 



minute floating thalloid plants, with few or solitary flowers on the margin 



or back of the thallus. 



Large terrestrial plants, the inflorescence a spadix. Fam. 1. Arace.4E. 



Minute floating thalloid plants with few or solitarj' flowers. Fam. 2. Lemnaceae. 



Family 1. ARACEAE Neck. 



Arum Family. 



Herbs mostly with basal long-petioled leaves, and spathaceous inflo- 

 rescence, the spathe enclosing or subtending a spadix. Rootstock tuberous 

 or a corm. Spadix densely flowered, the staminate flowers above, the 

 pistillate below, or the plants wholly dioecious, or wdth perfect flowers in 

 some species. Perianth wanting, or of 4-6 scale-like segments. Stamens 

 2-10. Filaments veiy short; anthers 2-celled, commonly with a thick 

 truncate connective, the sacs opening, by dorsal pores or slits. Ovary 1- 

 several-celled ; ovules 1-several in each cavity; style short or wanting; 

 stigma terminal, mostly minute and sessile. Fruit a berr>^ or utricle. Seeds 

 various. Endosperm copious, sparse or none. About 105 genera and at 

 least 1000 species, mostly of tropical regions, a few in the temperate zones. 



