404 CLxiii. PALMEiE. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 



* Spathes many ; flowers si/m,metric ; stigma in the fruit terminal. 



Male calyx tubular. Stamens 6. Albumen equable ... 10. Waihchia. 



Male calyx cupular. Stamens many. Albumen equable . 11. Didymosperma. 



Male sepals 3. Stamens many. Albumen equable. ... 12. AEENaA. 



Male sepals 3. Stamens many. Albumen ruminate ... 13. Cakyota. 



** Spathes 2 ; flowers unsym-metric ; stigma in the fruit bq,silar. 



Male calyx minute. Stamens 8 or 6, extroise. Albumen 



equable 14. Okania. 



ANOMALOUS OENUS. 

 Male fl. in catkin-like branches of a drooping androgynous 

 spadix ; fem. capitate at the apex of the spadix .... 15. NiPA. 



Tkibe II. Phoeniceae. Leaves piunatisect ; leaflets with indupHcate 

 sides. Spadices interfoliar ; spathe solitary. Flowers dioecious. Ovary 

 of 3 free carpels, one only ripening. Seed ventrally grooved ; embryo 

 usually dorsal. 



16. Phcbnix. 



Teibb III. Corypheee. Leaves flabelliform, orbicular or cuneiform, 

 plaited, lobes or segments with induplioate sides. Spadices interfoliar; 

 spathes many. Flowers usually bisexual. Ovary entire or 3-lobed, or of 

 1-3 smooth carpels. Fruit smooth, except Phulidocarpus. Seeds with a 

 small hilum ; raphe ventral. 



* Stigma in the fruit basal. Albumen equable. 



Ovary 3-lobed; style short. Embryo apical 17. Cobtpha. 



Ovary 3-celled ; style subulate. Embryo dorsal .... 18. Nannokhops. 



** Stigma in the fruit terminal. Albumen equable ; embryo dorsal. 



Ovary of 3 trigonous carpels ; style filiform 19. Licuala. 



Ovary of 3 globose carpels ; styles 3, free or coherent . . 20. Livistona. 



*** Albumen ruminate ; embryo basal. 



Fruit small, smooth 21. Tbaohycabptts. 



Fruit large, tuberculate or tessellate 22. Pholidooarpds. 



Teibe IV. Xicpidocarpeae. Leaves pinuatisect, leaflets with redu- 

 plicate sides. Spadices interfoliar or terminal ; spathes usually many. 

 Ovary 1-3-celled. Fniit clothed with reflexed shining closely imbri- 

 cating appressed scales. — Leaves copiously and strongly armed, except 

 Metroa^yloii. 



" Polycarpic palms, flowering annually. 



f Leaflets acuminate, quite entire, nerves parallel. 



Stem elongate. Spathes tubular, persistent 23. Calamus. 



Stem elongate. Spathes cymbiform or open, deciduous . . 24. D^monoehops. 

 Stem short or 0. Spathes many, persistent 25. Zalacca. 



ft Leaflets rhomboid cuneate or oblanceolate, toothed ; nerves flabellate. 



Stem short or 0. Spathes many, persistent 26. Kobthalsia. 



Stem seaudent. Spathe solitary, deciduous 27. Csratolobls. 



