816 



XXIII. PALBLSL 



Date. Fruit. 



Date. 

 Frnit cut vertically. 



Caryota sobolffera. 



Date. Seed cut transversely 

 (mag.). 



Date. 

 Embryo (mag.). 



TEIBE I. ARECINE^. 



Trees or shrubs with pinnate, pinnatifid or bipfnnate leaves ; pinnules with 

 curved margins. Spathe polyphyllous, rarely monophyllous, very rarely 0. Flowers 

 monoecious or dioecious, sessile on a smooth foveolate or bracteolate rachis. 

 Stamens hypogynous. Fruit deeply 3-lobed, a berry or drupe. Albumen homo- 

 geneous or ruminate. Embryo usually basilar. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



* Chaniredorea. * Areca. Harina. Hyospathe. 



Iriartea. Hyophorbe. Kentia. Ceroxylon. 



Seaforthia. *Arenga. Oreodoxa. Oranin. 



Pinanga. 

 ffinocarpus. 

 * Caryota. 



