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mens about 40 ; filaments short, white ; anthers about as long as the 

 petals, linear, acuminate ; pistillode 0. Female flowers much the 

 same as the male, but the sepals broader, more ciliate, the corolla 

 shorter, and of greenish colour ; staminodes usually 3, placed oppo- 

 site the sepals and angles of the ovarium, resembling young- 

 anthers. Ovary subtrigonal, roundish, 3-locular ; ovule solitary, 

 erect ; stigma sessile, 3-lobed. 



Fig. 30. — A Fishtail-Palm QCaryota urens) in flower and fruit. 

 CPhotograph taken at Khandala by Rev. M. Maier, S.J.) 



Fruit |-| inch in diameter, reddish ; pericarp thin, yellow, acrid ; 

 seeds one or two ; albumen ruminate, embryo dorsal. 



Flowers during most of the year (during the hot and rainy 

 season, according to Brandis). 



Habitat. — Sub-Himalayan tract from Nepal eastwards, ascend- 

 ing to 5,000 feet; Assam; Khasi Hills ; Manipur ; Chittagong ; 

 Upper Burma ; Pegu ; very common in the evergreen forests of the 

 Konkan and Northern Kanara ; Coimbatoi'e ; Nilgiris ; Malabar ; 



