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Gen. 4 —Calospatha.—(VPolycavpic ?). Female spadix (or 
DO Mo nocarpie Palms. 
Gen. 
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5. 
one of its partial inflorescences ?) very short, bearing 
the flowers in short spikelets in the axils of large 
distichous imbricating thinly coriaceous more or less 
pinous spathes. Flowers as in Daemonorops? Fruit 
2—3-spermous Seed with homogeneous albumen. Malay 
Peninsula. Sp. 1. 
Plect = 
s—Spadiees similar in both sexes, 
divided into Sotta long pendulous branches, furnished 
with numerous uniform distichous imbricating persistent 
unarmed spathels, which cover short spikelets. Male 
flowers in pairs. Female flowers fewer and larger than 
the male ones, and solitary at each notch- of the 
spikelet-axis. Fruit usually monospermous. Seed with 
homogeneous albumen. N.-Z. India, | South-eastern 
tropical Asia, pei Archipelago. Philippines. Sp. 12. 
6. Pio 4 = 
Spadices considerably 
different in the two VIE but having similar. small 
tubular ,or infundibuliform secondary spathes. Male 
flowers approximate in small spikelets. Female flowers 
2-3, equal in the axils of secondary spathes and 
having the ovary entirely enclosed in an urceolum 
formed by the staminodes. Fruit covered with very 
small scales, but distinctly arranged in numerous 
vertical series. Fruit ^ monospermous. Seed with 
homogeneous albumen. Malay Peninsula, Western 
Malayan Islands, Cochin-China. Sp. 5. 
7 —Myrialepis.—Spadices very  dissimilar in 
the two sexes. Secondary  spathes small, tubular- 
infundibuliform; ^ flower-spikelets seorpioid and few- 
flowered, but very dissimilar in the two sexes. Female 
flowers with a short  cupular 6-toothed nectarium, 
formed by the sterile stamens. Fruit monospermous, 
covered with innumerable extremely minute scales 
not regularly arranged in vertical series. Seed with 
homogeneous albumen. Malay Peninsula, Sumatra. 
Sp. 
B.—Short stemmed and tufted or arboreous and never climbing Palms. 
SusrRIBE IL.—ZaLAccEAE.— Tufted and almost stemless or arboreous, 
more or less spinous, devoid of any kind of flagelliform or 
whip-like appendages. Flowers pluriseriate and approximate in 
compact spikes. Spadices akillary, considerably shorter 
than the leaves. 
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