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globose oblong or ellipsoid ; style siibterminal. Seed erect, ventral 

 face hollowed ; albumen equable ; embryo dorsal. 



Species aboiit 1 7 ; Tropical Asia and Australia. 



Cultivation in Europe. — The species of Livistona are mostly 

 stove palms. They grow best in a compost of two parts loam and 

 one of peat, to which a little sand may be added. Much water is 

 required throiighout the summer. The seeds should be sown in 

 sandy soil, and placed in a gentle bottom heat. Several species 

 are admirablj^ adapted for various decorative purposes, and 

 especially for subtropical gardening. 



INDIGENOUS SPECIES. 



LIVISTONA JENKINSIANA, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 

 334 ; Palms Brit. Incl. 128, t. 226 A & B ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 435 ; 

 Brandis Ind. Trees 656. 



Name. — Toko Pat (Ass.). 



Description. — Trunk 20-30 feet high. 6-7 inches in diameter, 

 rough towards the apex from the adhering bases of the petioles, 

 with a thick, round crown. Leaves 6-7 feet long, reniform fiabelli- 

 form, greatest breadth 5-6 feet, length fi'om the apex of the petiole 

 3-3^ feet, divided into about 70-80, obtuse, bilobed segments, of 

 which the extreme lateral ones are the deepest, being 18 inches 

 long, while the central ones are scarcely half that length, under- 

 surface glaucous cassious. Petiole channelled above, armed almost 

 to the summit ; ligule cordate. Spadices 2-3 feet long, axillary ; 

 branches a span or a foot long, dichotomous opposite the ends of 

 the spathes; lowermost branchlets 2-3 times divided, the other 

 simple. Spathes chesnut-red, sometimes split, concealing the 

 greater part of the peduncle, scurfy outside, the one next the first 

 branch 1-li foot long, 3 or 5 keeled, with a large, oblong, deeply 

 bilobed, split limb. Flowers small, several together, sessile or rais- 

 ed on small tubercles, greenish, ebracteate. Calyx short with a 

 broad base, cup-shaped, with 3 short rounded teeth with membra- 

 nous margins. Corolla about twice as long as the calyx, divided to 



