﻿1874.] S. Kurz — Enumeration of Burmese Palms, 197 



* Simple-stemmed often lofty palms. Petioles comparatively short. 

 Trunk annular or almost even ; drupes the size of a wood-apple, 



... 0. umhraculifera, L. 



Trunk marked hy the spiral scars of the fallen spirally arranged leaves ; 



drupes the size of a cherry, C. Gehanga, Bl. 



* * Stemless. 



Petioles 18 to 25 ft. long ; drupes the size of a cherry, (7. onacropoda, Kz. 



SuBrAM. II. CALA.ME^. — Fruits covered by retrorsely imbricate 

 scales. Seeds often spuriously arillate. Usually armed climbers, rarely 

 erect or unarmed. 



Trie. I. Flabellat^. — Leaves fan-shaped, Nearly all American. 



Tkib. II. Pinnate. — Leaves pinnate. 



^ Flowers spirally arranged, forming a more or less dense 

 cylindrical catkin-like spilie. 



KoETHALSiA, JBl. — Spikcs villous-bracteoled or the bracteoles glabrous, 

 forming elongate panicles. Spathes tubular. Albumen ruminate. Scan- 

 dent palms, sparingly armed. 



Species. 



Spines on the petioles almost straight, 3 to 4 lin. long ; drupes obo- 

 void, ^ inch long, K. scaphigera, Mart. 



Spines on the petioles short, reflexed ; drupes turbinate (globular), the 

 size of a small pea, K. laciniosa, Mart. 



Zalacca, Humph. — Spikes villous-bracteoled, forming elongate pani- 

 cles. Spathes elongate, cleft to the base. Seeds arillate. Albumen equa- 

 ble. Stemless or almost stemless erect palms, more or less armed. 



Zalacca Wallichiana, Mart. Only species. 



* * Flowers distichous (very rarely spuriously unilateral). 



Calamus, L. — Flowers "usually sessile, solitary in the spathules, or 

 rarely in a short curved spikelet exserted from the spathule, forming elongate 



