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THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON, 

 INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED 



BY 



E. Blatter, S.J. 



Part VII. 



(With Plates XXXIII to XXXIX and text-figures 9jJf. to 37.) 



(Continued from page 391 of this Volume.) 



GOPERNICIA, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 242, t. 49, 50 

 (excl. t. 50, A I— IV). 



(After Nicolaus Copernicus, the famous astronomer, 1473- 

 1543.) 



Kunth, Enum. PI. Ill, 343.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 544.— 

 Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. PL III, 927 (excl. Grysophila).—Becc. 

 in Webbia II (1907), 140. 



Stem erect, mostly of considerable height, rarely low, annulate 

 in the lower part, covered higher up with the bases of the 

 persistent petioles. Leaves terminal, flabelliform. Petioles with 

 strong spines and a ligule. Segments induplicate, often with 

 fibres between the segments. 



Spadices elongate-panicnlate, much-branched, with several 

 tubular spathes and superposed partial inflorescences, which are 

 divided into several flower-bearing branchlets ; each branchlet 

 provided with a more or less tubular spathe or with a simple bract 

 at the point of its origin. Flowers hermaphrodite, single or in 

 clusters, sessile, bracteate orbracteolate. Calyx tubular, more or 

 less deeply 3-dentate. Corolla more or less distinctly tubular 

 below, divided in 3 valvate, narrow segments, which are strongly 

 sculptured-alveolate on the inner side. Stamens 6 ; filaments 

 united at the base with the corolla-tube and forming in the throat 

 a 6-lobed or 6-dentate corona, suddenlj^ restricted and subulate in 

 the upper part, anthers ovate or oblong, dorsifixed. Ovary con- 

 sisting of 3 carpels which are free below and united above into 

 one common style ; stigma tri denticulate. 



Fruit globose or ovoid, formed by one carpel, with the rest of 



