Caryota.| PALME. 531 
petiole and sheaths scurfy downy (?) ; pinne alternate ; pinnules 
obversely cuneate-deltoid, obliquely cut and lobed oy) 
margin acuminate, regularly or irregularly and rather bluntish 
{often deeply) toothed, 4-7 in. long; flowers sessile, spiked, form- 
ing a nodding rather large panicle-like spadix, the peduncle sur- 
rounded by large somewhat villous-scurfy glabrescent spathes ; 
male flowers much smaller than in C. wrens ; petals only 4 lin. long 
or somewhat longer by 2 lin. broad; stamens less numerous (about 
15-25); anthers mucronulate, occasionally blunt or almost notched ; | 
female petals only 14 lin. long, triangular-oblong, only shortly 
exserted from the calyx; ovary 1- or 2-celled with as many stig- 
mas; drupes globular or nearly so, the size of a cherry, smooth, 
bluish black, 1- or rarely 2-seeded. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests from Arracan and Martaban down 
to Tenasserim and the Andamans, but apparently not in the Pegu Yomah—FI. 
Fr, C.S. and H.S.—s.—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
Remazrxs.— Yields fibre similar to that of C. wrens. 
WALLICHIA, Roxb. 
linear ; Ovary-rudiment none. Females: corolla ureeolate, -cleft, 
valvate. Staminodes 8. Ovary 2- rarely 3-celled, with the ovules 
ascending from the base; stigmas as many as ovary-cells, acute, 
sessile. Drupe fibrous-fleshy, 2- or rarely 3-, or by abortion 1- 
- seeded. Albumen horny, homogeneous. Embryo dorsal, conical.— 
Stemless or caulescent, rarely simple-stemmed, often soboliferous 
palms, with pinnate leaves, the pinnz cuneate, erose-toothed, often 
lobed. Spadices nodding, the female one usually terminal, the 
males below, simply branched or rarely simple. 
X Male spikes almost filiform. 
Stemless, tufted; male flowers yellowish, the calyx tubular, about 
a line long waite “s iy either | Tapas tas, csi grates Ng ee 
xX X Male spikes thick and rigid; spadix of both sexes 
very ample; male flowers purplish or green, 
- T Leaves placed in a } spiral. ae 
Oa tubular, nearly a line long ; tufted stemless palm x W. densiflora, 
| Calyx m : in. deep ; trunk 3-4 ft. 
: hig’ agaed ted acai sted “—? 3 : Bes . W. Yome. 
tt Leaves strictly distichous, like in Ravenala, 
ss We Sates 
