1092 BENGAL PLANTS. [Livistona. 
9263. LrvIsTONA CHINENSIS R. Br.; F. B. I. vi. 484. 
Cultivated frequently. 
A small tree, 20- $0 feet high; native of China. 
2264, sf speciosa Kurz; F. B. I. vi. 485; E. D. L. 500. 
Chittago 
A tall ay 50-70 feet high. Magh. Thau. 
985. Borassus Linn. 
Tall palms ; trunk stout, unarmed; leaves terminal, fan- shaped, 
plicately multifid; petiole spinous; ligule short. Flowers dicecious ; 
peduncle sheathed with open spathes. ¢g Flowers small, mix 
with scale-like bracts, 2-seriately secund on small spikelets, and 
protruding one by one from the cavities of the stout, cylindric 
branches of a very large, act branched spadix, as the rachis of 
the spikelet pers ates. Perianth glumaceous; segments imbri- 
cate, 2-seriate, outer “on arrow ise cuneate, tips inflexed, truncate, 
inner 3 shorter, neon -spathulate. agai 6; anthers sub- 
sessile, oblong. Pistillodes 3, setaceous. ? Flowers globose, 
ger, few, solitary, se on ee branches of a sparingly 
branched spadix. Perianth Sr greatly accrescent, 2-seriate ; 
outer series 3, reniform, imbricate; inner 3 smaller, convolute. 
Staminodes 6-9. Carpels we connate in a globose, entire or 3-4- 
ite, 3-4-celled ovary; ovules erect, basilar; stigmas 3, sessile, 
recurved. Fruit a large, subglobose drupe, with 1-3 obcordate, 
fibrous pyrenes ; Sesieee!, thinly fleshy ; stigmas terminal. Seeds 
oblong, with a 3-lobed apex; testa adnate to the pyrene ; albumen 
hollow, equable ; tied subapical. 
2265. ORAS SUS FLABELLIFER Linn. ; F. B. I. vi. 482. B. flabelli- 
is F. I. iii. 790; E. D. B. 663. 
Cultivated in all the ae dean Chota Nagpur 5 
often subspontaneous n 
A tree, 60-70 feet high. phen “Tal, tari. 
986. Caryota Linn. 
Tall palms, soboliferous or simple, flowering from the upper 
leaf-sheaths and = reer downwards, alternately male 
and androgynous; t or sheathed; leaves few, very 
large, twice cilia: ‘ae very obliquely, dimidiately 
flabelliform or cuneiform, premorse or rounded at the tip, their 
bases swollen at the point of attachment. Flowers moncecious, 
