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trifid or trilobed at the apex. Female flowers : ovary globose- 

 ovate or oblong; stigmas stout, triangular, patent at the time of 

 fertilization. 



Fruit baccate, ovoid-elliptical; stigmas subbasilar; epicarp very 

 thin ; fibres of mesocarp applanate. Seed oblong-obconical, acute 

 at the base ; albumen equable ; embrj^o at or below the middle of 

 the back. 



Species about 7. 



Distribution. — Madagascar (elsewhere ?). 



Two species are cultivated in India : 



Segments of leaves 40-60 pairs G. lutescens. 



Segments of leaves much more nmxierovis... C.madagascariensis. 



CJSRYSALIDO CARPUS LUTESCENS, H. Wendl. Bot. Zeitg. (1878), 

 117 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. Plant. Ill, II, 882. — Areca madagascariensis, 

 Mart, ex Becc. Palme del Madag. p. 2. — Areca madagascariensis, Lodd. ex 

 Danimer, Palmenz. p. 91 — Areca lutescense, Bory ex Salomon Palmen, p. 110 

 — Areca Indica, Hort. — Areca barbonica, Hort. — Areca Dicksonii, Hort. — 

 Areca flavescens, Hort. — -Hyophorhe indica, Hort. ex Drude 1. c. p. 64. — 

 Hyophorbe lutescens, Hort. ex Drude 1. c. p. 64. — Hyophorbe Commerso- 

 niana. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 164, t. 143, I, {non H. Commersonii, 

 Mart, in Herb. Paris.) — Sublimia vilicaulis, Commers. ex Salomon, Palmen, 

 p. 110. 



Names. — Yellow Areca Palm (English). 



Arec jaunatre, Arec poison, Palmiste Marron, Palmiste 



poison (French). 

 Gelbliche Puppen-Areka (German). 



Description. — Stem about 25 feet high, cylindric, about 3 inches 

 in diameter, soboliferoiis, annulate, rings more or less 4 inches 

 distant from each other. Leaves 6-8, terminal, spreading, more or 

 less 8 feet long, regularly pinnatisect, vagina about 1^ feet long, 

 cylindric ; petiole about 2 feet long, narrowlj?- and deeply cana- 

 liculate above, margins acute ; rhachis about 5 feet long ; segments 

 dark green, 40-50 pairs, at base and apex of leaf approximate, the 

 middle ones 2 inches distant from each other, narrowly lanceolate, 

 contracted at the base, long acuminate at the apex and unequallj'' 

 bifid. 



Flowers dioecious, white. 



Fruit consisting of one carpel, baccate, black-violaceous, resiipi- 

 nate, ellipsoideo — turbinate. Mesocarp consisting of applanate fibres, 

 adherent to the membranous endocarp. Seed oblong-obconical, 

 acute at the base, branches of raphe about 18, radialty ascending 

 and slightly anastomosing on the dorsal side. Albumen equable. 

 Embryo below the middle height of the albumen. 



Habitat. — Madagascar (Salomon, Palacky ^), Bourbon (Bailey's 

 Cyclop. Americ. Horticult). 



^ Palacky, J. Catalogus plantarum Madagascariensium. Prague, 1907. 



