Wallichia.} PALME. 1093 
solitary and male, or ternate with the central female, on the 
slender, pendulous branches of interfoliar, short- -peduncled, much 
fastigiately branched spadices ; spathes 3-5, incomplete, tubular ; 
bracteoles wide. 3¢ Flowers symmetric Sepals 8, rounded, 
imbricate. Petals 3, linear-oblong, eaieaks Stamens numerous ; 
filaments short ; anthers lon ng. % Flowers subglobose. Sepals 3, 
rounded, iraheicsst, Petals 3, rounded, valvate. Carpels 8, con- 
nate in a 3-celled ovary; ovules erect; wisi sessile, 3-lobed. 
Fruit globose, 1-2-seeded ; stigma terminal. Seeds erect; albu- 
men ruminate ; embryo dorsal. 
Trunk solitary, or if with a few basal soboli these much smaller and 
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Ped ‘a the primary stem; spadix 8-10 feet long; pulp of fruit 
uUurens. 
Trunk, te accompanied by many or few basal soboli, almost or quite 
as large as the primary stem ; spadix 4-5 feet long; pulp of fruit — 
tis, 
2266. Caryora urEns Linn.; F. I. iii. 625; F. B. I. vi. 422; 
Generally planted, especially in the northern provinces ; 
wild in Eastern Tirhut and N. Bengal. 
A tree, 30-50 feet high. Hind. Mari; Uriya Salopa; 
Beng. Gol sago. 
2267. Caryora mitrs Lour.; F. B. I. vi. 423. 
Occasionally siluiited or self-sown, but chiefly in 
near European centres; perhaps wild in Bouthedi 
Chittagong. 
A small tree, 15-25 feet high; native of Burma, 
Andamans, Malaya. 
987. Wallichia Roxb. 
Soboliferous palms ; leaves pinnatisect, leaflets linear or oblong, 
irregularly toothed, base cuneate, 1-ribbed, secondary nerves 
flabella Flowers monecious or polygamous, on interfoliar, 
much- desanabica spadices; spathes many, tubular, clothing the 
Peduncle of the spadix, upper large, cymbiform. 7 Flowers very 
dense, symmetric, Sepals 3, connate in a cylindric or cupular, 
membranous, truncate calyx. Petals 3, connate in a cylindric, 
deeply 3-lobed corolla ; lobes oblong, valvate. Stamens 6, adnate 
‘0 corolla-tube; filaments short; anthers large. Pistillode 0. 
* Flowers smaller, more setae peo subglobose. Sepals 3, 
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