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THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON, 

 INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED. 



BY 



E. Blatter, S.J. 



Part VI. 



(With Plates XXVI— XXXII, and text-figures 20—23). 



(Continued from page 86 of this Vohime.) 



LIVIHTONA, R. BR. PRODR. IIP 123. 



(When Richard Brown discovered this genus of majestic and 

 graceful palms, he dedicated it to one of the great promotors of 

 English horticulture, viz., Patrick Murray, Baron of Livistone, the 

 founder of the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh.) 



Bl. Rumph. 11, 48, t. 95, 96 (Saribus).— Jacq. Fragm. t. 11, 

 fig. 1. (Latania).— Kunth Enum. PL III, 241.— Mart. Hist. Nat. 

 Palm. Ill, 239, 319.— Griff. Palms Brit. Ind. 127, t. 226 A, B, 

 0, D, append. 23.— Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 57, Suppl. 591 — 

 Becc. Males, I. 84.— Kurz. For. Fl. II, 525— Benth. Fl. Aurtr. 

 VII, 145.— F. Mnell. Fragm. Austral. VIII, 221— Wendl. & 

 Drude Linn. 39. 192, 226.— Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. Ill, II. 

 929,97. 



Tall palms ; trunk annulate. Leaves orbicular, flabellately 

 plicate, split to about the middle into bifiid narrow lobes ; 

 petiole long with spinous margins. Spathes many, tubular 

 sheathing. Spadices interfoliar, long peduncled, erect, fruiting 

 pendulous, loosely panicled. Flowers minute, hermaphrodite. 

 Sepals 3, rounded, imbricate. Corolla 3-lobed, coriaceous, lobes 

 valvate. Stamens 6 ; filaments subulate, united in a ring ; anthers 

 cordate. Ovary of 3 nearly free carpels; styles short, free or 

 coherent; stigmas minute; ovules basilar, erect. Drupes 1-3, 

 6 



