420 cLxni. PALMEiE. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 



11. DIDVnXOSFERnXA, H. Wendl. Sf Brude. 



Small low palms. Leaves terminal, unequally ptnnatiseot ; leaflets few, 

 trapezoid, erose, uni-costate, nerves flabellate. Spathes many, sheathing 

 the peduncle of the spadix. Spadix iuterfoliar, stout and simple, or slender 

 and brariehed ; monoecious or Pdioeoious ; flowers rather large. Male fl. 

 symmetric ; calyx cupular, 3-fid, imbricate ; petals coriaceous valvate ; 

 stamens 10-30, anthers linear, erect ; pistillode 0. Fein, fl: subglobose ; 

 sepals rounded, coriaceous; petals thick, triangular, incurved, valvate; 

 staminodes 0. Ovary depressed, 3-gonous, 2-3-celled, stigmas conical ; 

 ovules basilar. Fruit ovoid or oblong, l-S-celled and -seeded, stigmas 

 terminal. Seeds erect, oblong, plano-convex ; albumen equable ; embryo 

 dorsal. — Species 6, Malayan and Indian. 



1. D. Kookeriana; Becc. Males, iii. 186 ; stem slender, leaves 

 small long-petioled white beneath, some oblong from a cuneate base, some 

 entire or lobed, others pinnatisect with obovate oblong or trapezoid long- 

 tailed leaflets shortly ausate at the base, spadix filiform. 



Malay Peninsula j Perat, Scm-tecMni, No. 229b. 136b.) King's Collector 

 (n. 2i46). 



Stem 3-4 ft., solitary or tufted, J— i in. diam. Leases extremely variable, 12-30 

 in. long ; petiole slender ; sheatb furf uraceous. Spadices about 8 in. long, sheathed 

 with 5-6 spatbes ; flowers spirally disposed in clusters of 3 ; male fl. oblong, sub- 

 clavate, top rounded. Fruit unripe, globose. 



2. D, hastata, Becc. Males, iii. 99. ; stem slender, leaf-sheaths 

 scurfily hispid, leaflets 6-7 terminal trapezoid, lateral petiolulate 

 trapezoid caudate-acuminate, base hastate and ansate, spadices tilitorm 

 nodding. 



Malacca, at Selangore, F. Keheding. Pekak, Larut, King's Collector 

 (3125). 



SiemSft., solitary or sparingly tufted. Leaves 1^-2 ft. ; terminal leaflet 44-6 in. 

 by 1-2 in., lateral rather longer and broader, lower margin straight, anterior 

 sinuate-toothed. Spadix 1 ft. long; male Jl. i in. — Habit, &c., of D. Hoolceriana, 

 but the leaf-sheaths are brown scurfy, as are the leaflets more or less beneath, and 

 the latter have broadly cuneate more or less ansate bases; petiolule 1 in. and 

 more. 



3. D. nana, S. Wendl. & Drude in Kerclwv. Palm. 243 ; leaves 

 pinnatisect, leaflets about 5, terminal flabelliform, lateral opposite obliquely 

 trapeziformly lanceolate acuminate not caudate irregularly lobed and 

 toothed, pale beneath, spadices erect very stout simple or sparingly 

 branched rustily scurfy dense-fld. Hooh. f. Bot. Mag.%. 6836. Walliohia 

 nana, Qriff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 488 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 

 190, t. 315 ; Mig. PI. Ind. Bat. iii. 34. Harina nana, G-riff. Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 176, t. 238 A, B. 



Assam and the Khasia Hills, ascending to 4000 ft. 



Stem 3-5 ft., clothed with rusty leaf-sheaths, petioles and spathes. Leaves 18 in. 

 -2 ft. ; leaflets 1-3 pairs, terminal flabellate, variously lobed, lateral 7-10 by 3-5 in., 

 also variously lobed. Fern. fl. 4 in. diam. Fruit \ in. long, oblong, white. 



4. D. gracilis, Hooh.f. ; stem very slender leafy upwards, leaflets 6-8 

 lateral broadly cuneate below the middle above it triangular or 3-lobed or 

 truncate and acutely toothed, fem. spadix slender erect 3-branohed, fruit 

 elongate ovoid obtuse base rounded, seed elliptic-oblong concavo-convex. 



