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Licuala.| PALME. 529 
young ; calyx cup-shaped, cylindrical, greyish-tomentose, 3-toothed, 
with the teeth occasionally 2-cleft, about 14 lin. long; corolla 
nearly twice as long, densely tawny-tomentose outside, the lebes 
broadly cordate-lanceolate; ovary turbinate, fuscus-villous at the 
apex ; stigmas 3; drupe seated on the stout pedicel-like perianth, 
sappy, 1-seeded. 
Has.—Forests south of Mergui, Tenasserim.—Fl. 2, 
BORASSUS, L. 
Flowers dioecious. Spathes several, incomplete. Male flowers 
bracted, arranged in two rows in the cavities, forming (by coalition 
of the densely crowded scales) cylindrical catkins. Calyx 3-cleft. 
Corolla 3-parted. Stamens 6; filaments connate at the very base ; 
anthers sagittate. Female flowers solitary within the scales of the 
tkin, 2- or more-bracted. Calyx 3-sepalous. Corolla 6-petalous, 
the petals imbricate-convolute. Sterile stamens 6, connate in a 
ring round the ovary. Ovary 3- (rarely 2- or 4-) celled ; stigmas as 
many, sessile. Drupe large, containing 3 rarely 2 or 4 obcordate, 
compressed, fibrous-woody pyrenes, the mesocarp fibrous-fleshy. 
Albumen homogeneous, horny, turning hollow. Embryo apical, 
mmersed.—Lofty simple-stemmed palms, with palmately fan- 
shaped leaves, the petiole spiny. Catkins robust, the male ones by 
2 or 8, terminating the simple branchings of the spadix, the female 
Ohes simple and few. 
Tous ; gid texture I 
spiny-bordered petiole, palmately fan-shaped, many-cleft, the pinnae 
“4 ft. long, horny-spiny on the margins, especially towards the 
white 
flowers large, nearly an inch in diameter, globular and partially 
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cultivated all over Burma, especially in Ava and Prome 
oe 14B.— Frequent] 
_— (Mistricts.—F. Wich doe.: Fr. close of the rains.—l.—SS.=AJ/. Ca (?). 
pd. 
MARKs.—Wood black, very hard and heavy, durable, very fibrous; 0’.= 65 
: Used chiefly for rafters, ss ace etc. Leaves yield a coarse fibre. J: 
= ~ toddy are extensively extracted from its spadices. 
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