THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 357 



PPJTOHABDIA, Seem, et H. Wendl. in Bonpland, IX, 260 ; 

 X, 197, 310, t. 15. 



(After George Pritchard who explored the islands of the Pacific 

 •Ocean.) 



Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. Ill, 928.— Becc. Malesia III, 286 ; 

 Webbia, II (1907), 200— Calpothrinax, Grisseb. et Wendl. in 

 Bot. Zeitg., 1879, 147.— Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PI. Ill, 927.— 

 Drude in Engl, et Pr. Pflanzenf. II, 3 (1889), 33. 



Stem erect, columnar, solitaiy, unarmed, with annular scars. 

 Leaves terminal, large, flabellate, orbicular or more or less cuneate 

 at the base, undivided in the central part, more or less deeply 

 multifid on the periphery ; the segments more or less deeply bifid, 

 with or without filaments between the divisions ; ligule short ; 

 rachis more or less elongate. Spadix a doubly branched panicle ; 

 spathes two or more, complete, imbricate, very large, coriaceous, 

 tiibular in the lower part, open on one side of the upper part. 

 Flowers hermaphrodite, scattered or spirally arranged on the 

 branchlets, solitary, sessile on a bracteate pulvinus ; bracteoles 0. 

 Calyx tubular-campanulate, 3-denticulate. Corolla very much 

 longer than the calyx with a short permanent tube and 3 valvate 

 divisions. Stamens 6 ; filaments subulate, united at the base, dila- 

 tate and forming an erect corona ; anthers linear, oblong, versatile. 

 Ovary obovate or turbinate ; carpels 3, half-free, united into an 

 ■elongate style with common punctiform stigma, with one basilar 

 ■erect ovule. Fruit globular or ovoid, with the remnants of the 

 styles and sterile carpels more or less apical ; pericarp thin, grumous 

 or fibrous ; endocarp more or less woody, often easily separating 

 from the pericarp. Seed globular, free and erect in the endocarp ; 

 hilum small, basilar ; raphe lightly impressed, occupying a whole 

 side of the seed ; albumen uniform, solid ; embrj'o opposite to the 

 raphe above the base or towards the middle. 



Species about 10. — Fiji and Sandwich Islands. — The species 

 •described below has been introduced in Indian Gardens. 



Cultivation in Europe. — Very ornamental stove palms. They 

 grow best in a compost of two parts of peat and one of loam and 



