THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 679 



the whole ; anthers relatively large, erect when in the bud, slightly 

 shorter than the filaments, ovate-elliptical or ovate-sagittate, obtuse, 

 the cells "united hj a broad conspicuous connective, dark coloured 

 in the dry state, inserted on the filament about their middle ; 

 filaments i inch long, linear subulate at the apex, somewhat 

 flattened ; i-udimentary ovary globose, with 3 short, acute, stigmatic 

 points. — Female flowers open a short time after the male, hori- 

 zontal, 1 inch long when full grown, but not yet open, broadty 

 conical and apiciilate ; sepals reniform, entire, smooth, slightly 

 callous at the base ; corolla four times as long as the calyx, urceolate- 

 campanulate when open, divided down to a little below the middle 

 into three triangular briefly acuminate valvate divisions ; staminodes 

 forming a cup, lining the undivided part of the corolla, and crowned 

 by 6 obtuse lobes, 3 of them peeping forth between the divisions 

 of the corolla. Ovary globose, usually unicellular, with rudiments 

 of the two other cells, more rarely with two of these perfectly 

 developed, producing then a did3'namous fruit ; ovule attached along 

 one side of its cell ; stigTuas fleshy, triangnlar-subulate, recurved. 



Fruit globose-obovoid and somewhat gibbous, \^ inch long, 

 § inch broad, with a perfectly round top and with the remains of 

 the stigTiias placed a little above the base, on the less convex side ; 

 pericarp on the whole about 25 inch thick ; epicarp smooth outside, 

 thin and brittle in the dry fruit ; mesocai^ scanty, softly parenchj^- 

 matoiis ; endocai*p thinly woody and forming a shell or putamen 

 to the seed, its inner wall remaining adherent to and almost con- 

 nected with a large portion of the antiraphal side of the seed, 

 brittle and removeable on the side of the hilum. — Seed broadly 

 ovoid elliptical, rounded at both ends, slightly compressed and 

 flatfish on the raphal side, about ^ inch long and ^^^ inch broad ; 

 raphal side conspicuously marked by a circular central area in 

 which, a little below the centre, is placed the hilum, whence 

 numerous vascular ramose venations radiate. Albumen homogene- 

 ous, veiy slightly excavate on the raphal side. Embryo obliquely 

 basal, penetrating deeply into the substance of the albumen. 

 Fruiting perianth explanate, not accrescent. 



Habitat : Ciiba, Jamaica, S. Domingo, St. Croix, Panama (Beccari). 



CALYPTEOCALYX, Bl. Rumphia II, 103, tab. 102. 



(From the Greek 'kalyptra', an extingaiisher, and 'kalyx,' a calyx, 

 in allusion to the form of the outer perianth segments.) 



Kunth. Enum. PL III, 642.— Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 44.— Benth. 

 & Hook. Gen. PI. Ill, II, 902, 42 (partim). 



Stem annulate, unarmed ; leaves terminal, pinnatisect, segments 

 reduplicate, linear, acuminate, sometimes bifid at the apex. 



Spadix elongate, spicseform, decliuate between the bases of the 

 leaves. Spathe longitudinally open, coriaceous, remaining on the 



