+++ HERMAPHRODITE.. CaLamorn PALMS. 
SUBTRIBE V.— KonrHarsrEAE.— Ultimate divisions of the spadix bearing 
= amenti form spikes. Flowers solitary at every spathel and of 
one kind only. Leaves of the adult plant cirriferous, the 
cirri armed with usual claws only. Fruit small. Seed ruminate 
or homegeneous. 
Gen. 13.—Korthalsia.—Volu) Peninsula and Western 
Islands of the Malay Archipelago, Celebes, the 
Philippines, New Guinea. Sp. 26. 
SUBTRIBE VI.—ANcIsTROPHYLLEAE.—Leaves having the rhachis prolonged 
into a filament armed with abortive leaflets transformed into 
“hooks (acanthophylla). Flowers of one kind only. 
Gen. 14.—Anecistrophyilum.—Spadix panicled, termi- 
nal, much branched; branches furnished with 
infundibular spathels. Flowers coriackous ; in pairs at 
each spathel. Tropical Africa. Sp. 4. 
Gen. 15.—9 Í Spadices panicled, lateral 
the main branches sheathed by tubular spathes. 
Flower-bearing branches tail-like, furnished with 
approximate spathels, each protecting a glomerule of 
flowers. Tropical Africa. Sp. 
Gen. 16.—Eremospatha.—Spadix axillary, short, simply 
branched. not having spathes. but only scale-like bracts 
at the base of every flowerbearing branch. Flowers 
fleshy, in pairs on the branches, naked. če., not 
protected by spathels ; the two flowers exactly alike. 
Tropical Africa. Sp. 8 
I[.— Leaves palmatified or palmatinerved. Polycarpie dioecious Palms. (Neogeae). 
SuprRIBE VII—MavuRITTAE.—Arboreous or fruticose, having slender 
erect stems.  Spadix with tubular or infundibuliform primary 
and secondary  spathes. Fruit m’nospermous. Seed with 
equable albumen. 
Gen. 17.—Lepidocaryum,—Small non-spinous palms. 
Stem slender, erect. Leaves bipartite or palmatipartite. 
Spadices small, dioecious, male and female similar. 
Male and female flowers similar, distichous on spikelets 
coming forth from the axils of infundibular or sheathing 
spathes. Flowers coriaceous, elongate. Male flowers 
solitary or in pairs at each spathel, having six stamens. 
‘ Female flowers solitary at each spathel, having also six 
stamens, well evolute but sterile. Fruit as in Calamus. 
Tropical America. Sp. 7. al 
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ANN. Roy. Bot. Garp., CALCUTTA, VoL. XII. 
