PALME, 1089 
dehiscence lateral or extrorse. ihe 3, connate in a 3—1-celled 
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branching all over the testa; albumen ho orny or bony, equable or 
ruminate ; embryo small, in a ssieite near the ae of the 
albumen, 
Leaves flabelliform, fan-like or orbicular; inflorescence interfoliar ; 
fruit not clothed with scales :— 
Monocarpic palms, flowering once and then dying ; flowers hermaphro- 
dite, in pyramidal panicles ; fruit small ...-<stivdevesssvoavede ves Corypha. 
y of 3 triangular carpels; spadix stores branched ie 
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Ovary of 3 eichos carpels; spadix loosely panicled . oer 
Flowers dicecious; males small, sunk in cavities of thickened, 
catkin-like birsinehiss ; female very large; fruit large, 8 in. across 
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Leaves pinnat 
*Fruit not eee with scales ; stems erect, unarmed ; neither the leaf- 
Leaves twice pinnatisect, the segments very obliquely “dns: 
flabelliform ; spadix interfoliar but followed progressively down- 
wards by ce male and female infrafoliar spadices...Cary 
Leaves complet tely or partially once pinnatisect :— 
tSpadix ntti flowering while the leaf in the axil of which it 
is formed is green ; leaves sl. erneiee gt 090] 
para arge :— 
Dwarf palms with prostrate, eae buried stock ; 
spadix with male flowers ie eoapey. catkin-li ke branches ; ; 
the bases and with close-set males towards the tips of the 
