Nenga.} CLXiii. palmed. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 413 



staminodes 6 minute teeth. Fruit about 1^ in. long by i in. dlam., ellipsoid ; stigmas 

 3, broad, triangular. 



4. XiOXOCOCCUS, S. Wendl. & Drude. 



Stem erect, annulate. Leaves pinnatiseot, leaflets obliquely truncate. 

 Sfadix infrafoliar, branched ; spathes 2 ; flowers 3 together (a fem. between 

 2 males) clusters spirally arranged. Male fl. Sepals 3, rounded, imbri- 

 cate; petals 3, much larger, ovate, valvate; stamens 9-12, filaments very 

 short, anthers subversatile. Fem.fl. smaller, subglobode ; sepals rounded, 

 broadly imbricate ; petals ovate, base broad imbricate, tips valvate ; ovary 

 1-celled, stigmas 3, minute ; ovule parietal. Fruit subglobose, caspidately 

 beaked, stigmas terminal ; albumen ruminate ; embryo subbasilar. 



Xi. rupicola, H. Wendl. & Drude in Linnsea, xxxix. 186 ; Hook. f. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 6358. Ptychosperma rupicola, Thw. FJnum. 328. Caryota 

 mitis, mild. ? ; Moon Cat. Geyl. PI. 64. 



Ceylon ; in forests of the Southern and Central Provinces. 



Trunk 30-40 ft. by 4-5 in. diam. Leaves 6-8 ft., spreading j leaflets 12-20 pairs, 

 2 ft. by 2^ in., spreading, linear, subglaueous beneath, and sparsely furfurapeous ; 

 petiole 1-2 ft., sheath very short. Spatlte 1 ft., pale yellow. SpadAx 1 ft., blood- 

 red, subdeltoid ; peduncle short and branches stout spreading quite glabrous ; 

 flowers in scattered clusters of 3. Male fi. i in. diam.; filaments about equalling 

 the anthers ; pistillode miuute, 3-fld. at the tip. Fruit about 1 in. long, globosely 

 ovoid. Seed globose. 



Stem slender, annulate. Leaves pinnatisect, leaflets narrow, caudate- 

 acuminate. Spathes 2, complete, caducous. Spadix infrafoliar, panicu- 

 lately branched ; flowers spirally disposed, male only towards the tips of 

 the branches, a fem. between 2 males towards the base. Male fi. sjrm- 

 metric; sepals suborbicular ; petals valvate ; stamens 6, anthers versatile; 

 pistillode conical or columnar. Fem. _/J. bibracteolate ; sepals rounded, 

 concave; petals longer, tips valvate; staminodes 4-6; ovary ovoid, 

 stigmas 3, triangular, acute ; ovule parietal. Fruit small, ovoid, stigmas 

 terminal. 8eed ovoid, obtuse, deeply grooved along the long linear 

 hilum ; albumen deeply ruminate ; embryo basilar, oblong. — Species 3, 

 Malayan. 



1. p. sing'aporensis, Beeo. in Awn. Jp.rd. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 90, 1. 126; 

 Males, iii. 109 ; stem slender, leaflets about 1 ft. long very numerous, 

 spadix slender 5-7-branched, rachis rusty furfuraoeous, fruit ovoid. 

 Ptychosperma singaporensis, Becc. Males, i. 61. Rhopaloblaste singa- 

 porensis. Hook. f. in Gen. PI. iLi. 892. Drymophloeus singaporensis, 

 Hook.f. in Kew Gard. Bep. (1882) 1884, 55. 



SiN&APOBB ; Maingay {Kew dist. 15S6). Johoke; on Gunong Pulai, Sullett 

 (6000), Kunstler (230). 



Stem 6-12 ft. by li in. diam., soboliferons. Leaves 3-6 ft., regularly pin- 

 natisect ; leaflets very many, alternate, straight, about 8 by \\ in., 3-nerved, upper 

 shorter, midrib beneath scaly ; petiole 2-2^ ft. and rachis very slender, furfuraceous. 

 Spadito about 1 ft., 5-7-branched from the base ; flowers yellow. Fruit nearly f in. 

 long by i in. diam., ovoid or elliptic-ovoid, tip conical, slightly excentric. Seed, free, 

 elliptic-ovoid, lounded at both ends, raphe branches descending to the base. 



