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^. Arecece infrafoliacece. Spadix one or several times branched, 

 below the crown, hidden before flowering in the long sheaths of 

 the axils. Spathes 1 — 3, complete. Calyx of male flowers mostly 

 broadly imbricate. Corolla of female flowers broadly imbricate. 

 Ovary with one central ovule. — Leaves unarmed. 



I — Ovule and seed laterally more or less united with the en- 

 do carp. 

 (a) Albumen uniform. 



1 Ovule and seed united with the 



endocarp to a little beyond the 



middle of the raphe Hydriastele. 



2 Ovule and seed imited with the 



endocarp along the raphe from 



the base to the apex Kentia. 



3 Ovule broadly united with the en- 



docarp near the chalaza and 



consequently pendulous Cyrtostachys. 



(h') Albumen ruminate. 



1 Leaflets truncate Ftycliosperma . 



2 Leaflets truncate-dentate Loxococcus. 



3 Leaflets accuminate. 



° Rumination of the albumen deep, 

 radial towards the centre of 



the seed • Actinorhyiis. 



"° Rumination of the albumen ir- 

 regular or flat. 

 X Stamens 6, albumen deeply 



grooved along the raphe ... Ptychora2')his. 

 X X Stamens 6, Raphe without 



groove Dictyosperma. 



XXX Stamens 9 — -24 ArchontopJuenix. 



TI — Ovule free, arising from the base of the 

 lo cuius. 



1 Female and male flowers in clusters 



of 3 reaching high up the branches Finanga. 



2 Female flowers at the base of the 



branches, solitary or few Areoa. 



OBT]OJ)OXA.—Yjnx\t\\ in Humb. et Bonpl. Nova Gen. et Sp. 



PI. I, p. 244, edit. min. p. 305 (1815). 

 (From the Greek " Oros," the mountain, and " doxa " glory; 

 alluding to the lofty stature of some of the species.) 



Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, III, 166, 310, t. 156, 163.— Jacq., 

 Stirp. Sel. t. 170— Kunth. Enum. PI. III. 181.— Walp. Ann. Ill, 

 459.— Griseb, Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 517:— Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. Ill, 

 II, 899, 35. 



