210 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. 
Gen. 18.—Mauritia.—Arboreous. Leaves flabellate. 
divided in two principal parts, simply multified. Spadices 
paniculate, divided into several spike-bearing branches. 
Male flowers pluriseriate and crowded ih small spikelets, 
solitary or in pairs at each spathel. Stamens nes 
rudimentary ovary extremely minute. Female flowers 
larger than the male ones, and fewer on shorter 
spikelets ; the calyx cupular, the corolla entire and 
ventricose in its lower part,  3-parted above- 
Staminodes six, conspicuous, forming a ring at the throat 
of the corolla; anthers abortive.  Ovary globular- 
ovoid ; stigmata short, connivent. Seed appendiculate 
in its uppermost part; embryo ventral. Tropical 
America. Sp. 11. 
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Lepidocaryeae spuriae. 
Fruit covered with inmumerable scales ; mesocarp dry, fibrous ; endocarp thick 
woody, pervious at its base. 
SusrrIBE VIIL—EvGEisSONEAE.—Arboreous or caespitose spinous monocarpic 
palms having pinnate leaves, and large coriaceous hermaphrodite 
dichogamous pluristaminate non-spicate flowers. Fruit monospermous, 
clothed with inmumerable very minute scales ; pericarp dry, fibrous ; 
endocarp thick, woody, pervious at its base ; the endocarpal cavity 
divided by 6-12 incomplete dissepiments. Seed plurisuleate, having 
homogeneous bony albumen and a basal embryo. 
Eugeissona. Malay Peninsula and Borneo solely. Sp. 6. 
Lepidocarycae extra-asiaticae. 
: RAPHIA Palis de Beauv. 
Palis. de Beauv. Fl Ow. et Benin, i, 75 t. 44, E, Let t. 48. 46; Mart. 
Hist, Nat. Palm. ii, 53. t. 45 f 5. et t. 48 (Sagus) ii, 216.343; Drude in Mart, 
FE Bras mn JI. 2860, te 01.02, et ‘in Engl. Jahrb. xxi, (1895) 111; Mann. et 
Wendl. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv, 437. t. 39. A JL Ww (oW A B C. D; 
Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. iii, 935; Wright in Th. Dyer. Fl. Trop. Afr. vin, 
(1902) 104; Becc. in Agricolt. Colon. iv, (1910) t. 1—6, and in Webbia, iii, 
(1910) 37, f. 1—8. 
| KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
A. Male flowers very dissimilar to the female ones. 
 L—The corolla of the female flowers shorter than the calyx and entirely hidden 
by it. 
* Spikes strongly flattened, bearing exactly " bifarious, very approximate 
le and female flowers. Male flowers about 6 mm. long, having 
6 to 9 stamens. 
