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Key to the genera described below : — 



A. — Fruit with a smooth pericarp. Gynoecium of 

 3 free carpels ; each carpel with its own style 

 or stigma. 



a. Perianth of 3 sepals and 3 petals alternat- 

 ing with the sepals. 



1 Seed erect elliptic ; albumen ruminate . . . 



2 Seed curved-reniform ; albumen with a 



single excavation near the raphe 



3 Seed flat-globular ; albumen with a deep 



excavation filled with a corky sub- 

 stance, otherwise uniform 



b. Perianth of 6 bristles, or of 6 leaves grown 

 together ... ... ... 



B. — Fruit with a smooth pericarp. Gynoecium 

 of 3 appressed carpels, or carpels united 

 where they meet ; stigma one. 



a. Spadix terminal ; remains of stigma at the 

 base of the fruit. 



1 Embryo apical, spiral ... 



2 Embryo dorsal or subbasilar 



b. Spadix axillary, lateral ; remains of the 

 stigma apical (except in Sabal). 



a Berry drupaceous ; endocarp hard, 

 brittle. 



1 Filaments on a fleshy urceolus which 



is united with the corolla 



2 Filaments free, slightly coherent at 



the base 

 /3 Berry drupaceous on a cylindrical stalk. 

 y Berry with a soft membranous endocarp. 



1 Albumen uniform, except for an exca- 



vation near the umbilicus or raphe . . . 



2 Albumen deeply ruminate ... 



Ghamoerops. 

 To-achy carpus. 



Rhapis. 

 Thrinax. 



Gorypha. 

 Nannorhops. 



Licuala. 



Livistona. 

 Pritchardia. 



Sabal. 

 Gopemicia. 



