30 PALME (Wright). 
Il. HYPHAENE, Gertn. 
Flowers dicecious. Male flower: Calyx 3-lobed, imbricate. Petals 
widely ovate, concave, connate into a short stalk at the base, gluma- 
ceous, abriodte: Stamens 6; filaments short, subulate ; anthers 
linear, 2-lobed at the base, basifixed. Rudim entary ovary none. 
Female flower shortly pedicelled, larger than the male. Sepals 
ovate orbicular, obtuse, imbricate. Petals slightly smaller than the 
sepals, widely ovate, obtuse, imbricate. Staminodia 6, connate into 
a membranous eup. Ovary subglobose, obscurely 3-lobed, 3-celled; 
stigmas 3, sessile ; ovule laterally affixed near the base. Fruit sessile 
or stalked, 1-celled ; stigma basilar; pericarp grumose with shining 
epidermis ; endocarp woody. Seed adnate to the endoca arp, which is 
intruded at the base, erect ; raphe with reticulate fies ehee: albumen 
bony, homogeneous ; embryo apical. 
Unarmed or penis spiny medium or large sized trees; leaves flabellate ; 
petiole ending in a short ligule; spadices with cylindrical ” spathes ; branches 
alternate with subfastigiate her chlets ; bracts semicircular, very densely ib 
cate; bracteoles mem id ; flowers immersed in the branchlets, the male 
pairs, the female solita 
DistRiB. Species cou 9, dispersed through tropical Africa, Arabia, and the 
Masearene Islands, 
1. H. crinita (Gertn. Fruct. ii. 13, t. 82, f. 4); stem simple, 
8-20 ft. high; leaves abellate “with fibres betwee on the laciniz, 
base, deeply channelled above ; margin aculeolate; fruit obovate, 
de pressed, shortly stalked, smooth; putamen subglobose. Mart. 
Poin 227; Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 1881, se Kirk in Journ. 
Linn. Soe ix, Yo... i: ndtitensie G. Kunze n Linnea, <x. 305 
ard, Apes 1890, viii. 381. H. bilertting. "Klotsch ex Mart. 
Palin. i ili. 227. 
EASTERN ReGion: Natal, Gueinzius, Drége. 
Also found in the central part of Tropical Africa and in Madagascar. 
The widely spread tropical = ican H. thebaica, Mart., differs in its branched 
stem and ovate fruit and putam 
Orpen sues TYPHACEA. 
(By N. E. Brown.) 
Flowers uwnisexual, moncecious, in dense bracteate 8 or spikes. 
Ma le aap with a perianth of 3-6 cay or withou a perianth, 
oblong, or cuneate, 2-celled anthers, opening by longitudinal slits, 
the connective ——- produced beyond the cells at the apex; 
no rudiment of an ovary. Female flowers with a perianth of sc 
or of fine hairs, sometimes accompanied by slender spathulate or clavate 
