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Stamens 8. — Fruit with 3 bony stones, or rare!}' 



by abortion with 1 or 2 ... ... ... Lettauia. 



Stamens G. — Friiit mostly with 3 stones ; seed 



sinuate ... ... ... ... ... Borassus. 



Stamens 8. — Fruit general!}' with one bilobed, 



kidney-shaped stone ; seed bilobed ... ... Lodoicea. 



HYPHJENE, Gaertn. Fruct. I (1788) 28, t. 10, f. II (1791) 

 13, t. 82. 



(From the Greek ' Hyphaino,' to Aveave, alluding to the fibres of 

 the fruit.) 



Benth. & Hook. Gen. PI. Ill, 940.— Dalla Torre et Harms Gen. 

 siph. p. o^.—Ihuma (Poir.) in Kouv. Duhamel ed. 2, IV (1801-9). 

 —Cucifera Bel. Fl. d'Egypte (1813), 145.— Domtx Lam. Illustr. 

 t., Q{){).—Camfmp]ies Dill. Cat. pi. Schawii No. 143 (1738).— 0. 

 Kuntze Rev. Gen. II (1891) 728 (non Pontedera). Baillon Hist, 

 des Fl. XIII. 324. 



Unarmed except for the spines on the petioles. Stem C34indrical 

 or ventricose, simple or diehotomoush" branched. Leaves in a 

 terminal crown, orbicular or flabellate ; segments ensiform, petiole 

 concavo-convex, plano-convex or more rarely bi-convex ; sheath 

 short, open ; ligule obliciue or equilateral. Spathes cylindrical,, 

 incomplete : spadices dia>cious, male and female similar ; spadix 

 branches alternate ; iioA\-er-bearing branches subfastigiate ; bracts 

 semicircular, very densely' imbricate ; bracteoles membranous,, 

 bearded. Male flowers : Sepals linear-oblong, imbricate, connate 

 at the base. Petals broadly ovate, obtuse, concave, imbricate,, 

 connate at the base into a short stalk. Stamens 6 ; filaments 

 short, subulate ; anthers linear, inserted at the bifid base. Rudi- 

 ir.ent of ovary 0. Female flowers larger than the male, very short!}- 

 pedicellate. Sepals 3, ovate-orbicular, obtuse, imbricate. Petals 

 a little smaller than the sepals, broadly ovate, obtuse, imbricate. 

 Staminodes 3, connate into a membranous ring. Ovary subglobose. 

 obscurely 3-lobed, 3-celled ; stigmas 3, minute, sessile, terminal, 

 at length excentric ; ovule attached by a broad base to the side of 

 the cell. 



