RAPHIA. 211 
(a) Fruit turbinate or nearly globular, slightly longer than © broad 
(45—6'5x3'5—45 cm.) rounded or slightly attenuate at the 
base. 
1. Raphia Ruffia (type) Mart. 
Fruit smaller, distinctly turbinate narrowing downwards to 
a rather acute base. 
R. Ruffia var pedunculata Becc. 
(b) Fruit oblong, at least twice as long as broad. 
Fruit 8—10 cm. long, 3--4'8 cm. across. 
2. R. Kirkii Engl. 
Fruit long and narrow, 11—13 em. long, 3—5'5 em. across. 
R. Kirkii var. longicarpa Becc. 
Fruit ovoid-elliptical, 8—12 cm. long, 4—4°5 em. across. 
R. Kirkii var. grandis Becc. 
** Spikes more or less flattened, the flowers sub-4-seriate, more rarely loosely 
but nearly exactly biseriate. 
(a) Male flowers 25—26 mm. long. stamens 16. Fruit 
large, oblong-ovoid, 76—82 mm. long, 37-39 mm. broad. 
3. R. longiflora Mann et Wendl. 
(5) Male flowers 17 mm. long, stamens usually 12. Fruit 
small, ovoid or subobovoid, 5'5 em. long, 3:3 em. broad. 
4. R. Laurentii De Wild. 
II— Female flowers having the corolla more or less protruding beyond the’ calyx, 
at least with the apices of tts divisions. 
* Fruit having the scales strongly convex and bigibbous in the posticous part, 
and  flattish, depressed or slightly concave anticously. 
(a) Fruit obovoid having an asymmetrical base (always). 
Seed ruminate from numerous narrow and deep 
intrusions of the integument. 
R. Mannii Becc. 
(b) Fruit broadly obovoid-turbinate, the base acute and 
symmetrical. Seed ruminate from few intrusions of the 
integuments broadening in its central part. 
| 6. R. textilis Welw. 
** Fruit having the scales regularly convex from base to apex and more or 
less grooved along the middle. 
$ Fruit ovoid-elliptical, equally rounded or equally more or less attenuate at 
both ends. 
T Female flowers having the calyx truncate at the mcuth or very 
obsoletely 3-toothed. È 
ANN. Roy. Bot. GARD; CALCUTTA, VOL. XII. 
