Metroxylon. METROXYLON. oo SOS 
Figs. 
Figs. 
Figs. 
tt Fruit 7 cm. in diam. or thereabouts, globular-depressed, not excavate 
at the base; seed 4 cem. in diam.; pericarp 5—6 mm. thick; scales 
with produced acute tips. 
8. M. salomonense Becc—Solomon Islands 
German New-Guinea and New Britain. ! 
ttt Fruit 5:5 cm. in diam.; globular-depressed; the base excavate; pericarp 
10—12 mm. thick; scales with produced acute tips; seed 2°5 em. in 
diam. 
9. M. bougainvillense Becc—Bougainville E 
Island. 
DESCRIPTION or PLATE V. 
1—7. Metroxylon amicarum commune Becc.—Fig. 1. Full grown flower bud.— 
Fig. 2. Female (hermaphrodite) flower during the anthesis.—Fig. 3. Female 
(hermaphrodite) flower from which one of its divisions has been cut off showing 
the ovary entire and in sétu.—Fig. 4. Longitudinal section of a male flower.— 
Fig. 5. Spathel showing its lower surface, and shielding one pair of flowers 
(d and ?)—Fig. 6. Spathel showing its upper side (a, a) and the floral brac- 
teoles above it united (5, 3) and furnished, right and left, with a falcate 
tuft of paleaceous hairs, their respective flowers having been removed. All 
figures enlarged 7 diameters.—Fig. 7. Diagram of a spathel with the rela- 
tive flowers and bracteoles. 
8—12. Metroxylon Warburgii Bece.—Figs. 8—9. Female (hermaphrodite) flower 
buds, enlarged 4 diameters.—Fig. 10. Female flower bud cut open longitudi- 
nally, showing the ovary entire, and im s?tu.—Fig. 11. Another female flower 
bud eut open longitudinally. the ovary having been removed. (Figs. 10—11 
enlarged 7 diameter.—Fig. 12. Diagram of a spathel with its relative flowers, 
and bracteoles. 
Descriprion oF Pirate VITA. 
1—8. Metroxylon Rumphii Mart.—Fig. 1. Transverse section (semi-schematic) 
of a spike showing the spathels united by their margins, and the insertion òf 
the two flowers (d and ?) for which purpose their woolly bracteoles have been 
removed.—Figs. 2—3. Flower buds.—Fig. 4. Female flower bud cut open, 
having one of the divisions of the corolla removed to show the ovary entire 
in situ.—Fig. 5. Male flower bud of which two of the divisions of the corolla 
have been removed, showing the androecium entire. —Fig. 6. Male flower 
bud eut open, having one-third of the corolla remo: ed and showing at its 
base the rudiments of the ovary.—Fig. 7. Longitudinal section of a growing 
ovary.—Fig. 8. Diagram of the spathel with the relative flowers and bracteoles. 
(Figs. 1—3 enlarged 5 diam.; figs. 4—7 enlarged 7 diam.) 
ANN. Roy. Bor. GARD., CALCUTTA, VOL. XII. 
