THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 



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leaves, with several large partial inflorescences rising from within 

 the tubular primary spathes ; these secondary inflorescences consist 

 of several superposed branches, each of which forms a cupressiform 

 partial panicle, 1^-1 f feet long, very dense, rising from the axil 

 of a spathe ; this spathe is tubular at first, but later on split 

 lengthwise, laminar, longer than the respective panicle, g-1 inch or 

 more broad, truncate, shortly bidentate and ciliate-barbate at the 

 apex. The partial panicles are doubly branched and divided into 

 numerous filiform straw-coloured flowering branchlets which are 

 2i-31 inches lono-. FloWers in bud lanceolate-acuminate, A inch 

 long and Jg inch broad, obscurely angular ; calyx tubular-cam- 

 panulate, truncate at the base, lobes 3, divided to about the middle, 

 broadly ovate, denticulate-crenulate, apex slightl}'' furfuraceous- 

 rubiginose ; corolla twice as long as the calj'x, tubular in the lower 

 fifth, segments lanceolate-acuminate, subaristate, callous-papillose 

 at the point of insertion of the respective stamen, spreading during 

 anthesis in that part which is not surrounded by the calyx. The 

 stamens opposite to the segments thickly fusiform, attached 

 to the corolla with their lower third ; the stamens alternating' with 

 the segments are terete, subulate, much thinner than the others, 

 free almost to the base of the corolla ; anthers lanceolate-sagittate, 

 .acute, shortl}^ bifid at the apex. (Fig 20.) 



Fig. 20. — Flowers of Washing! onia A"^//6'?'fl, Wendl. 

 X 3"5. (After Parish.) 

 Ovary small turbinate, 3-lobed, abruptly contracted into a 

 filiform style. Stigma punctiform, non-lobate. Fruit ovoid, black, 



