206 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
CONSPECTUS OF THE GENERA OF LEPIDOCARYEAE. 
Lepidocaryeae verae. 
Fruit covered with imbricating scales ; mesocarp more or less fleshy ; endocarp 
membranous and very thin. 
L—Leaves pinnate, very rarely digitate or simply penninerved (Gerontogeous). 
+ DIOECIOUS PALMS. 
A.—Funiform spinous palms, or if at times not climbing, allied to species 
that are so and with slender stems. 
SuBrRIBE L—CaraAMEAE.—Leaf-sheaths, leaves and spadices, 
all or only one or two of these organs furnished with whip-like 
appendages (cirri or flagella) armed only with common spines or 
prickles,. i.e., “claws” (not with hook-like metamorphosed  leaflets 
i t.e., * Acanthophylla ”’). 
© Polycarpie Palms. 
Gen. I-Calamus.—Spadices usually elongate, furnished 
with permanent tubular or infundibuliform spathes, at 
times tubular at their bases and split along, or even 
spread open higher up. Male spadix bearing the 
i flowers in spikelets upon which the flowers are solitary 
at every  spathel. Female spadix bearing  spikelets 
upon which every female flower is accompanied with 
a neuter or rudimentary flower. Fruit monospermous, 
D very rarely 3-spermous. Seed with homogeneous or 
ruminate albumen. Southern Asia, Asiatic tropical 
- Archipelagos, Papuasia, Africa, Australia. Sp. 256. 
Gen. 2—Daemonorops.—Spadices abbreviate, enveloped 
by several broad cymbiform or laminar spathes, entirely 
or partly deciduous. Male and female flowers as in 
Calamus. Fruit always monospermous, seed always 
with ruminate albumen. South-east tropical Asia and 
Asiatic tropical Archipelagos. Sp. 91. d 
A EH. 
Gen. 3.— Ger Spadices abbreviate, having the 
male and female panicles closed into only one 
permanent indehiscent spathe pervious only at its 
apex, similar in both sexes. Male and female flowers 
as in Daemonorops. Fruit always’ monospermous. 
Seed ruminate. Malay Peninsula and Western Malayan 
Islands. Sp. 6. 
