THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 77 



3-partite, valvate. Ovary of 1-3 united carpels, 1-3-locular. Berry 

 with 1-3 seeds; remains of stigma apical (except Orania). Embryo 

 dorsal. 



Distribution. — India, Malay Peninsula. 



Garyota , L., Arenga, Labill., Bidymosperma, W. & Dr., Wal- 

 lichia, Roxb., Orania, Zipp. 



Key to the genera described below. ' 



Male sepals 3. Stamens many. Albumen 



ruminate Garyota. 



Male sepals 3. Stamens many. Albumen 



equable Arenga. 



Male calyx cupular. Stamens many. Albu- 

 men equable Didymosperma. 



Male calyx tubular. Stamens 6. Albumen 



equable Wallichia. 



or 



Leaves bipinnate Garyota. 



Leaves simply pinnate 



Fruit 3-seeded Arenga. 



Fruit 2-seeded Bidymosperma . 



Fruit 1-seeded Wallichia. 



GAEYOTA, L. Gen. Nat. 1228. 



(From the Greek " Caryotos," nut-like, on account of the shape 

 of the fruit ; the Greeks first applied this name to their cultivated 

 Date.) 



Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. III., 193, 315, t. 107, 108, 162.— Bl. 

 Rumph. II., 134, t. 162, 163.— Kunth Enum. PI. III., 198, 504. 

 —Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V., 477.— Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III., 

 37.— Kurz For. Fl. II., 530— Benth. Fl. Austr. VIL, 134.— Wendl. 

 Linn. 39, 191.— Drude Bot. Zeitg. 1877, 638, t. 6, fig. 25, 26.— 

 Becc. Males. I., 69.— Bot. Mag. 5762.— Trim. Journ. Bot. 1879, 

 174.— Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. III., II., 918, 73.— Hook. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI., 422. 



Tall, unarmed palms with annulate, naked or sheathed trunks, 

 soboliferous or not, flowering when full grown from the axils of 

 the leaves, beginning at the upper and then successively down- 

 wards, after which the plant dies, usually a male and a female 

 spadix alternately. 



Leaves few, very large, broad, bipinnatisect or decompound ; 

 leaflets very obliquely dimidiately flabelliform or cuneiform, 

 praemorse or rounded at the tip, their bases swollen at the inser- 

 tion ; nerves and veins flabellate. 



Spathes 3-5, inclompete, tubular. Spadices interfoliar, shortly 

 peduncled, much fastigiately branched ; branches slender, pendu- 



