510 PALMA, 
rattans Bennie: The wood is coarse and perishable, although 
elastic 
* Fruit covered with retrorsely imbricate scales or bristles. 
Seeds often arillate. 
Xx Flowers spirally arranged, — a more or less dense 
cylindrical catkin-like spik 
Albumen homogeneous ; stemless or siashat stemless erect palms. Zalacca 
Albumen ruminate; scan seri : ms . Ko rthalsia. 
x — distichous (very rarely spuriously unilateral) ; 
andent, =a lofty, as very rarely erec 
Flowers ohare t in the spathules, forming panicles . Calamus, 
pond in small naked racemes or spikes hidden by the distich- 
usly pean spathes and arranged in long tail-shaped 
panicled catkin . Plectocomia. 
* * Fruits iat scaly, smoot. th or ‘variously tubercled reticu- 
late or roughish. Seeds without ari 
x Leaves fan- he aped. — th in ae ag = complete, 
+ Carpels apocarpous athe e apex 
their Paores inaly one ay a them ‘onine 
© Inflorence terminal ; corolla consisting of 3 free 
a page noe clu stered; stamens hypogynous; drupe 
cate ; Oy united into a blade; erect — ages off 
sae floweri . Caryota. 
oO O *aslreseence axillary ; corolla 3- parted ; ‘drupe 
PPy- 
Flowers honiapheodite,-< clustered ; stamens perigynous ; albumen 
with a cavity re with the intruding integuments ; pine 
és i‘. en . Livistona. 
owers polygamous, sete ae 28 stamens hypogynows : albu- 
ere ek longitudinal f pinnae u — into a blade. 
. Chamaerhops- 
Dower hernia phaodh te, “solitary or r by 2 or 3; stnrisbexs perigynous, 
the i a inserted at the throat and w nited in a ring; 
pinne free y 2 or more united into tiedadlae or ape 
abellate nie nts . Licuala. 
+-+ Carpels syncarpous, the ovary 2- " ce led, with as 
sel ovules; drupes 2-4-celled, with as many 
seeds, 
ih 4 7 
, Several ; WW 
3 drupe large, 
Seaby Aeron 3 seeds soapy, with an grky pore ; 3 pinne 
nited into a blade; erect palms . Borassus- 
< Leaves pinnate or fe pinnate or pinnatisect, rarely 
almos' anth complete in both sexes 
sends 3, posed s 
a 
Dioecious; spathes 1 or 2, boat t-shaped ; 3; corolla in males valvate, i 
the females imbricate drupes sappy, eng hls ee hows 
geneous ; lower pinne spiny nese palm Phaenic. 
syncarpous, alien: wie as ie ovu 
O ss — rite or sheathing, at ince 
= leaves often a jagged or 
r-tothed deca palms 
Me Leaves bipi 
Th ae % 
spadix ; stamens indefini 3 petals 
in females fnsbrieete in bud ; drupe sappy ; alamen tatuate Caryota- 
ae sth ole simply pinnate; petals in females 
valva 
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