XXIII. PALJVLE. 



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TRIBE II. CALAMEJE. 



Sarmentose or arborescent plants. Leaves pinnate or palmate-flabellate, often 

 terminating in a long appendage armed with hooka ; pinnules with decurved margins. 

 Spathe usually polyphyllous, rarely monophyllous. Spadices branched. Flowers 

 usually diclinous, sessile; bracts and bracteoles enveloping the flowers, and simula- 

 ting an amentaceous inflorescence. Stamens hypogynous or perigynous. Fruit a 

 berry covered with imbricate quadrate scales, which are at first erect, then recurved ; 

 albumen homogeneous or ruminate. Embryo lateral or sub-basilar. 



* Calamus. 



Plectocomia. 



PKINCIPAL GENERA. 

 Zalacca. Daemonorops. 



* Sagus. 



Mauritia. 



TRIBE III. BORASSINE^J. 



Trees with palmate-flabel- 

 late or pinnate leaves ; pin- 

 nules of the flabellate with 

 erect margins. Spathes 



woody or fibrous, reticulate 

 (Manicaria), imperfect and 

 sheathing the base of the spa- 

 dices, or perfect, and com- 

 pletely enveloping them. 

 Flowers usually dioecious, the 

 $ nearly glumaceous in texture, 

 sunk in the pits formed on the 

 spadix by the union of the 

 bracts, and presenting an amen- 

 taceous appearance. Stamens 

 hypogynous. Fruit a drupe, 

 rarely a berry ; albumen homo- 

 geneous. Embryo usually apical. 



PRINCIPAL GENERA. 



Borassus. Hyphaene. Manicaria. 

 *Latania. Geonoma. Bentinckia. 



TRIBE IV. CORYPHINEJZ. 



Trees or stemless plants. 

 Leaves usually palmate-flabel- 

 late, very rarely pinnate (Phce- 

 nix) ; pinnules with erect 



Rhapis fiabeUiformii. 



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