THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CETLON. 675 



ROYSTONEA.—O. F. Cook in Bull. Torroy bot, Club, 1901, 

 p. 549. 



Stem erect, columnar, unai-med, annulate, thickened at the base 

 or in the middle, leaves terminal, pinnate ; pinnae narrow-lanceolate, 

 bifid at the top ; petiole long-sheathing. 



Spadix at the base of cylinder formed by the leaf-sheaths, thrice- 

 twice divided, equalling the inner lignescent spathe. Floweiu 

 monoecious, small, white or yellowish, Male calyx 3 — phyllous, 

 short, imbricate ; petals 3 : stamens 6-12, long-exserted with versatile 

 anthers. Female calyx as in the male ; petals 3, valvate; staminodes 

 forming a 6-dentate cupule ; ovary 3-locular ; stigmas 3, sessile, 

 suprabasilar in ,the fruit. 



Berry drupaceoiis, 1 -seeded; putamen adnate to the testa; 

 albumen uniform ; embryo basilar. 



Species 4. — Tropical America : Antilles and neighbouring 

 coast of SoiTth America. 



Cultivation in Eueope. — These palms are elegant stove plants 

 and are easily raised from imported seeds, sown in a sandy soil in 

 a mild hotbed. When the seedings have attained sufficient size 

 they must be potted off singly into small pots with the same kind 

 of soil in which the seeds were sown. Later on, good tuvfj loam 

 will be better. 



OREODOXA OLERACEA, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 166, t. 156 

 fig. 1, 2, t. 163.— Becc. Relig. Scheff. in Ann. Jard. bot. Buit. II, 150, t. 

 12 ; Pahns indg. to Cuba in Pomona Journ. Econ. Bot. II, (1912) 265. — 

 Drude, in Mart. Fl. Bras. Ill, II, 474. 

 Names. — The tree is called : 



American Cabbage Palm, Barbados Cabbage tree, Cabbage 



Palm, Cabbage tree (English^. 

 Arbre au chou, A.rbre chou des Barbades, Arec d'Amerique 

 Arec legumineux, Arouari des Caraibes, Chou palmiste 

 Palmier des entourages, Palmiste blanc, Palmiste a chou, 

 Palmiste a colonne, Palmiste franc (French). 

 Echte Kohlpalme, Kohlpalme, Kohltragende Arekapalme 



(German). 

 Amerikaanische Koolpalm, Koolboom, Koolpalm, Palmiet 



(Dutch). 

 The cabbage or heart of the tree is called : 

 Chou palmiste (French). 

 Palmenkohl Palmkohl (German). 

 Palmkool (Dutch). 

 Description. — Stem more or less thickened at the base, for the 

 rest equal, 100-130 feet high, annulate. Leaves terminal, up to 

 20 feet long, patent, forming a graceful crown, pinnatisect ; base 



