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carpels. Seed oblong to spherical; spermoderm often adhering to 
the endocarp ; albumen copious, cartilaginous, horny or oily, homo- 
geneous or ruminate ; embryo small, peripheral. 
Trees with erect, simple, more rarely branched, stems, or woody climbers; 
leaves alternate, usually collected ge a terminal ec crown, ernie or flabellate ; 
petiole sheathing at the base an n breaking up into a fibrous network on 
the decomposition of the lea Setlaedecenee axillary ; spathes one or more, 
usually afar sag: Sraciohesl parame mple. 
TR Genera 140, Species about 1200, widely spread through the 
tropics ‘at giibttopies | ers both hemispheres. 
I. Phoenix.—Leaves pinnate. Carpels distinct. Embryo dorsal. 
II. Hyphene.—Leaves flabellate. Carpels united. Embryo apical. 
I, PHOENIX, Linn. 
Flowers dicecious. Male flower oblong. Calyx cupular, 3-toothed. 
Petals 3, slightly connate at the base, valvate. Stamens 6 ; filaments 
connate at t the base ; anthers gap a erect, dorsifixed. Rudi- 
mentary ovary small or none. Female flower globose. Calyx as in 
the male. Petals 3, rotundate, concave, widely imbricate. Stami- 
nodia 6, connate. Carp els 3, distinet ; stigma sessile ; ovule erect. 
Fruit oblong, \aadas stigma terminal, Seed deeply grooved on 
the ventral side ; embryo minute, dorsal ; albumen cartilaginous. 
Unarmed trees; leaves pinnate; pinne lanceolate, induplicate ; spathe 
solitary ; hte intrafoliaceous, bra nehed ; flowers small, yellow 
DistR1B. Species about 12, dispersed through tropical and subtropical Asia 
and Africa, 
1. P. reclinata (Jaeq. Fragm. i. 27, t. 24) ; stem erect, covered 
with the scars of the old leaves ; leaves 3-5 ft. long, reclina e at 
1 ft. long, 12 lin. wide, lower ones gyi rE be male flower: 
calyx cupular ; petals 3, oot. acute; stamens 6; female spadix 
2 ft. lon ng; peduncle 1 ft. long, complanate, sinterctae branches 
6-8 in. long ; petals widely orbicular ; drupe oblong, es lin. nate 
Bece. poi iii, 349. 2 spinosa, ' Saha f Thonn. Beskr. Guin. 
Pl, 437; Kunth, Enum. 256; Kirk in Journ. Linn. Soc. ix. 
234. P. leonensis, Lodd. ex e ieath, Enum, iii. 256. 
Coast Region: Albany Div.; spot be a Karega and other rivers, Bowie ! 
Algoa Bay, ex Mart Fish River, ex ‘ius. : 
Ea cman oroN: Natal, Garden! Port Natal, Krauss, 82! Kaffraria, 
Ecklon and Z 
Relendhigt sigh Tropical Africa. 
