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THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON, 

 INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED. 



BY 



E. Blatter, S.J. 



Part XVII. 



{With Plates— LXXXIX to XCV.) 



{Continued from 2^ac/ 6 538 of this Volume.) 



JUBJEA, H. B. et K. Nov. Gen. et Sp. I, 308, t. 96. 



(Etym.: Named after Juba, a king of Numidia). 



Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 294, t. 161, f. 3; Palm. Orbign. 106 

 (excl. sp.); Kiinth Ennm. PI. II, 293.— Philippi Bot. Zeitg. 1859, 

 362; cat. plant, chil. 301. — Benth. and Hook. Gen. Plant, III, II, 

 948, 131. 



Stem bigli, unarmed, scaly by the remains of the leaf-stalks. 

 Leaves terminal, pinnatisect ; segments patent in all directions, 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, rigid, glabrous or pulverulent, the 

 margins recurved, rhachis laterally compressed, convex on the back, 

 acute on the ventral side ; petiole unarmed ; sheath short, open. 



Spadices several ; upper spathe complete, fusiform, woody, open 

 on the ventral side, finally bipartite. Flowers on the same inter- 

 foliaceous, simply branched spadix, bracteate, male flowers in the 

 upper part, short-pedicellate. Sepals linear-lanceolate, acute, 

 carinate. Petals much larger, ovate or oblong, acute, coriaceous, 

 concave, costate. Stamens 27-30. (according to Benth. and Hook., 

 1. c, 15-30 according to Naudin), inserted at the base of the 

 perianth, included ; filaments capillary, longer than the anthers, 

 free ; anthers linear, dorsifixed, erect. Female flowers : Sepals 

 broadly imbricate. Petals con volute-imbricate. Urceolus small, 

 membranous. Ovary ovoid, 3-locular, 2 locuii ludimentary ; 

 stigmas 3, subulate, patulate. 



Fruit obovoid, 1 -seeded, provided with the terminal stigmas ; 

 pericarp densely fibrous ; endocarp bony, globular, acute at both 

 ends, slightly 3-carinate. Seed globose ; albumen cartilaginous, 

 equable, hollow ; embryo opposite to one of the three pores. 



Species 2. 



Distribution. — Chili, Ecuador. 



JUBMA SPECTABILIS, H. B. & K. Nov. Gen. et Spec. I 308, t. 96 ; 

 Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 294, t. 161, i. 8. ;-Kuiith. Enum. PI. Ill, 293.— 

 Gaad. Voyage Bonite, t. 51. — Cocos chilensis Molina, ex H. B. et K. 1. c. I, 



