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green, sprinkled with brownish scurf, f inch in diameter, with 

 scarious, lacerated ends, occasionally obliquely lacerated. Spadix 

 a little longer than the leaves ; branches 7-10, adnate to the 

 rhachis as high as the mouths of the spathes ; lower branches 

 several, compound, stout, subulate, downy, spreading, generally 

 secund. Flowers sessile, placed in two's or three's, small, nearly 

 ovate. Calyx sub-ovate, divided to the middle into o-rounded 

 teeth. Corolla a little longer than the calyx, divided belovs^ the 

 middle into 3 broad, lanceolate, acuminate segments. Annulus of 

 stamens rather high, nearly entire. Filaments short, setaceous. 

 Anthers oblong-ovate. Ovary depressed, turbinate, sculptured at 

 the apex. Style filiform, rather longer than the ovary. Fruit 

 obovoid, ^ inch long, pedicelled by the calj^x-tube, red, 1 -seeded, 

 sui-rounded at the base by the perianth. Seed ovate ; albumen 

 horny, on a transverse section horse-shoe-shaped. (^Fig. 18). 



Fig. 18. — Licuala S2mwsa. 



1. Top of a flowering branchlet before the 4. Stamens surrounding the pistil. 



flowers open. 5. Pistil. 



2. Young flower, C. Longitudinal section through pistil to 

 ii. Corolla, one petal removed to show show the ovules. 



sestivation of stamens. 7. Longitudinal section of seed. 



All enlarged, (After Martins). 



