Livistona. ] PALMEZ. 1091 
vi. 428; E. D. ©. 1995. C. Talliera F. I. ii. 174; F. B. I. 
vi. 428; E. D. C. 2006. 
Bengal occasionally, and always cultivated. 
A tall, straight tree, 60-80 feet high. Beng. Tali. 
983. Licuala Thunb. 
Low, rarely tall palms; stems annulate; leaves more or less 
orbicular or flabellate, plicate, deeply partite; petiole usually 
spinous. Flowers usually sma , scattered, hermaphrodite, on — 
interfoliar, simple or branched, glabrous, tomentose or scurfy 
spadices, sheathed by tubular, coriaceous, persistent spathes; 
bracts and bracteoles obscure or 0. Sepals 3, connate in a tubular 
or cupular calyx, with 3-fid mouth. Petals 3, connate below in a 
corolla with coriaceous, valvate lobes. Stamens 6; filaments 
subulate ; anthers cordate. Carpels 3, truncate, free or nearly so; 
ovules in each carpel solit itary, erect; styles simple, filiform 
Fruit of small drupes, with terminal styles. Seeds erect, globose, 
free, often hollowed on the ventral face; albumen equable ; 
embryo dorsal 
2. Licuana peurata Roxb.; F. I. ii. 179; F. B. I. vi. 430; 
E. D. L. 843. 
Chittagong. 
A gregarious shrub; stems 8-15 feet high. Beng, 
Kurud, kurkuti. 
SS ee RE a a ee ea ee ee Ny: ieee ae ed ma 
984, Livistona R. Br. 
Tall palms with annulate stems; leaves ngnievlae flabellately 
Plicate, split to the middle into slender, 2-fid, narrow lobes; 
: petiole long, with spinous margins. Flowers isha hermaphro- 
; ie loosely panicled on interfoliar, long-peduncled spadices, erect 
j in flower, pendulous in fruit; spathes many, she athing, tubular. 
a. of the leaves very deeply —— peas Vbidiea. tients chinensis. 
Divisions of the leaves very shortly 2-toothed .....2...... ..eseseeees speciosa. 
