PALMIERS. 397 
v. a latere compresso, varie vaginato ; segmentis lanceolatis v. linea- 
ribus acuminatis, Inermibus v. spinulosis, nune fissis v. in fibras 
solutis; costa marginibusque nunc ciliato-setosis. Spadices ampli v. 
(Lepidocaryum) graciles, distiche v. subdistiche composite ramosi ; 
spathis tubulosis v. incompletis; ramulis floriferis aut eylindraceis 
amentiformibus (Ewmauritia), aut brevibus compressis (Lepidoca- 
ryum) ; floribus secundis v. 2-fariis v. spiraliter confertis; spathellis 
sæpe cochleatis, infundibularibus, ramulos involucrantibus ; brac- 
teolis nunc in cupulam 2-carinatam v. 2-alatam connatis. (America 
trop. austr., Antillæ!.) 
IV. ARECEÆ. 
44. Areca L.— Flores monœci; masculorum (parvorum) compres- 
sorum v. 3-quetrorum sepalis 3, æqualibus v. inæqualibus, liberis v. 
ima basi connatis, valvatis v. subimbricatis. Petala 3, multo majora 
oblique ncaclats acuta v. acuminala, valvata v. we leviter imbri- 
Cala. Stamina oppositipetala 3, v. sæpius 6, 2-seriata; filamentis 
brevibus v. brevissimis; antheris sagittatis basifixis; loculis inferne 
liberis, extrorsum v. ad latera rimosis. Gynæcei rudimentum breve v. 
elongatum ; ramis subulatis 3. Floris fæminei masculo multo majoris 
Sepala 3, orbicularia concava late imbricata, post anthesin accreta. 
Petala 3, sepalis longiora, nisi apice acutato valvato imbricata v. 
lorta, Staminodia varia, libera v. in urceolum connata, nunc 0. Germen 
ovoideum, 1-loculare; styli terminalis ramis stigmatosis 3, subulatis 
erectis v. recurvis. Ovulum basilare sessile elongato-depressum ; 
micropyle infera. Fructus ovoideus v. oblongus, perianthio stipatus ; 
éXOCarplo crasse carnoso diteque fibroso; endocarpio tenui semini 
Contiguo. Semen basilare ovoideum v. hemisphæricum, basi trun- 
Calum v, concaviusculum; hilo basilari; rapheos ramis undique 
adscendentibus reticulato-ramosis. Albumen durum ruminatum ; 
embryone parvo basilari. — Inermes, elatæ v. humiles ; caudicibus 
Solitariis v. cæspitosis annulatis. Folia terminalia æqui-pinnatisecla ; 
1. ad 12. re - Palm. Orbign., t. 2, fig. 4, Sierre a — GRISEB., En 
FE 4 4, 14, 21, À, B. —- SPACE, race à brit. W.-I . 19 ( : ST é 
u CURE Pal 1 Lapulstere 
I, XL, 61 (aräocrum, 1.65: FRAMS (1889), 9, t. 1, fig. 1, 25 10 yen), 
in Trim. Jours. ce 17), 129. — WALLACE, 
Palm. Amas., 46, t. 2, fig. 23 t. 17, 21; 60, — WALP., Ann, V, 
