430 CLXiii. PALME*. (Beccari & Hook, f.) \_Nannorhops, 



bracteate, the other pedicelled ebracteate. Stamens in the male fl. inserted in the 

 corolla-tube; in the hermaph. fl. in its throat j anthers deeply sagittate. Ova/ry 

 narrowed into the style. Drupe globose ellipsoid or oblong, from the size of a pea 

 to a bullet. 



19. I.ICVAX.A. 



Low, rarely tall palms ; stems annulate. Leaves more or less orbioalar, 

 or flabellate, plicate, deeply partite ; petiole usually spinous. Spadices 

 iuterfoliar, sheathed by tubular coriaceous persistent spathes, simple or 

 branched, glabrous tomentose or scurfy ; flowers usually small, scattered, 

 hermaphrodite; bracts and bracteoles obscure or 0. Galt/x cupnlar or 

 tubular, mouth 3-fid. Corolla-lobes coriaceous, valvate. Stamens 6, 

 filaments subulate ; anthers cordate. Oeary of 3 free or nearly free truncate 

 1-ovuled carpels ; styles filiform ; ovules erect. Drupes small ; style ter- 

 minal. Seed erect, globose, free, ventral face often hollowed ; albumen 

 equable, embryo dorsal. — Species about 45, trop. Asia, Australia and 

 Pacific. 



There are several unnamed Burmese and Maliiyan-Peninsular species in the Kew 

 Herbarium, which I (ail to identify with any of the Indian ones enumerated by 

 Bcccari. I refrain from describing them, as they are solitary specimens, and may be 

 the same as known Malayan islaud spei.ii.'S, of which I have seen no specimens.- — 

 J. B. H. 



A. Flowers |-f in. long. 



1. I^. peltata, Boxh. Fl. Ind. ii. 179; leaf orbicular 12-30-partite, 

 petiole armed throughout with strong curved spines, spadix with many 

 superposed branches tomentose and flowers tomentose. Sam. in Mem. 

 We.rn. Soc. v. 313; Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat Hist. v. 326; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 120, t. 222. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 234, 1. 162 ; Kuntli Enum. iii. 238 ; 

 Wall. Cat. 8617; Hiirz in Journ. As. Sac. Bene/, xliii. ii. 204; For. Fl. 

 ii. 527 ; 2'. Anders, in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. 13 ; Card. Chron. 1872, 1657, 

 fig. 350. 



SiKKiM Himalaya, Assam, the Khasia Hilis, Silhet, Burma and the 

 Andaman Islds. 



Stems 8-15 ft., usually gregarious. Leaves 3-.5 ft. diam , segments variously 

 connate, uiany-toothed at the apex, teeth- i-2 in ; very variable in length and 

 breadtli, obtusely 2-fid ; petiole 3-4 ft., stout. Spathes tubular, 6-12 in. long by 

 ■^-f in. broad, mouth irregularly toothed or lobed. Spikes of tall stout spadix 

 distant, 6-10 in., pendulous, fulvous-tomeutose ; flowers stipitate. CaZj/ic campanu- 

 late, silkily pubescent, shortly lohed. Petals ^-l- in. long, lanceolate, very coriaceous. 

 Fruit i in. long, ellipsoid, narrowed equally at both ends, orange-colrd. Seed 

 with the intruded hilar process dilated within. 



B. Flowers much less than ^ in. long. 



1. Spathes tubular, with entire or lacerate mouths. 



* Spadix with 8-10 superposed branched inflorescences arising from 

 special spathes. 



2. Ii. paludosa, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 233; Palms Brit. 

 Ind. 118, t. 221, A, B, C; leaves flabelliform or orbicular 7-9-partite,' 

 lateral segments deeply acutely 3-4-lobed, the rest tiuncately 4-8-lobed, 

 petiole unarmed above, flowers minute glabrous, petals very short. Becc. 

 Males, iii. 74. 



