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scurfy ; flowers usually small, scattered, hermaphrodite ; bracts and 

 bracteoles obscure or absent. Calyx cupular or tubular, mouth 3- 

 fid. Corolla-lobes coriaceous, valvate. Stamens 6 ; filaments 

 subulate ; anthers cordate. Ovary of 3 free or nearly free truncate 

 1-ovuled carpels ; styles filiform ; ovules erect. Drupes small ; style 

 terminal. Seed erect, globose, free, ventral face often hollowed 

 albumen equable ; embryo dorsal. 



Species about 50. Asia, Australia, Pacific Islands. 



With regard to this genus J. D. Hooker has the following 

 note : — " There are several unnamed Burmese and Malayan-Penin- 

 sular species in the Kew Herbarium, which I fail to identify with 

 any of the Indian ones enumerated by Beccari. I refrain from 

 describing them, as they are solitary specimens, and may be the 

 same as known Malayan Island species, of which I have seen no 

 specimens." 



Cultivation in Europe. — The species of this genus are d^varf 

 stove palms. They grow in a compost of two parts peat and one 

 of sandy loam. They require a strong moist heat. Propagation is 

 effected b}'' seeds sown in a sandy soil, and placed in a strong, 

 moist bottom heat. 



■ INDIGENOUS SPECIES. 



Lieu ALA PELT AT A, Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 179 ; Ham. iu Mem. Wern. 

 Soc. V, 313 ; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 325 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 120, 

 t. 222 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palms, III, 234, t. 162 ; Kuntli Enmii. Ill, 238 ; 

 WaU. Cat. 8617 ; Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. XLIII, II, 204 ; For. Fl. 

 II, 527 ; T. Anders in Journ. L. Soc. XI, 13 ; Gard. Chron. 1872, 1657, fig. 

 350; Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 430; Grab. Cat. p. 225; Prain Beng. PJ. 1091: 

 Brandis Ind. trees, 656. 



Names. — Kurud, Kurkuti (Beng.) Patti, Chattah-pat (Ass.) ; 

 Salu (Burm.). 



