﻿187'J^.] S. Knrz — Enumeration ofBurmese Palms, 193 



SYNOPSIS OF THE GENEBA AND SPECIES OF BTIBMESE 



PALMS. 



SuEFAM. I. PALM^ GENUINE.— Fruits not imbricate scaly, but 

 smooth or variously rough or tubercled. Seeds without arillus. Usually 

 erect, very rarely armed palms. • 



Trie. I. NiPiisriE. — Perianth of females reduced to a few scales. Ova- 

 ries 3, apocarpous. Male flowers in separate spadices surrounding the 

 central female flower-head. Leaves pinnate. 



NiPA, Pumph. — Spathes many, sheathing, persistent. Female flowers 

 on a central globular torus, surrounded by the male spadices. Male perianth 

 6-parted, complete, valvate in bud. Stamens united by threes. Drupes 

 woody, angular-turbinate, collected into a large dense head. Albumen equa- 

 ble, hollow in centre. Soboliferous almost stemless palms. 



N.fruticans, Wurmb. Only species. 



Trie. II. PiWNATiE. — Pe^^ianth complete in loth sexes. Leaves pinnate 

 twioe pinnate or pinnatisect, rarely almost entire. Erect palms, 



* Spathes 1 or 2, more or less boat- or spindle-shaped. 



§ CocoincB. — Spathes 1 or 2, spindle-shaped or clavate. Ovary syn- 

 carpous. Putaraen at base 3-porous. Leaves simply pinnate. 

 (Probably better reduced again to a section of Arecinece.) 



Gocos, L. — Monoecious on the same spadix. Petals in females imbri- 

 cate-convolute in bud. Ovary syncarpous, 3-celled, only one cell ovule-bear- 

 ing. Drupe large, woody, containing a single one-seeded hard putamen. 

 Albumen equable. Large simple-stemmed palms. 



Cocos niccifera, L. Only species. 



§ § Arecinece. — Spathes 1 or 2, boat-shaped, caducous. Ovary syncar- 

 pous. Putamen not perforated. Pinnse neither fascicled nor 

 erose-toothed. 



Aeeca, L. — Flowers monoecious, their bases immersed in the cavities 

 of the nude spadix. Stamens 3, 6, or numerous. Petals valvate in bud. 



