Eugeissonia.] clxiii. PALMEiE. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 481 



E. trlstls« Griff, in Oalc. Jomm. Nat. Hist. v. 101 ; Palms Srit. Ind. 

 109, t. 220 A ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 312, t. 179, 180 ; Becc. in Nuov. 

 Oiorn. Bot. Ital. iii. 28. 



Maeat Phninsttla and Penaug, Griffith, &a. 



SUms densely tufted, very short or 0. Leaves 15-20 ft. j leaflets many, 2-2i ft., 

 narrow-lanceolate, subulate, acuminate, midrib bristly above ; petiole 7-10 ft., 

 armed with flat brown spines. Spadix 4-6 ft., sheaths and spathes armed ; flowers 

 1-1^ in. long, terminal on the flexuous branches of the spadix ; bracts many, closely 

 imbricating. Frvit the size of a hen's egg, beak clothed to the tip with scales. 



32. mSTROXYliON, Bottb. 



Stout monooarpic palms. Leaves equally pinnatiseot, leaflets opposite. 

 Spadix very large, panicled, clothed with coriaceous spinous spathes ; 

 spikes sessile, catkin-like, short, distichous, recurved ; bracts broader than 

 long, bracteoles oupular. Flowers polygamous, densely crowded ; perianth 

 coriaceous. Male fl. calyx 3-fid, funnel-shaped, nerved ; corolla segments 

 oblong, valvate ; stamens 6, anthers dorsiflxed ; pistillode 3-partite. JFem. 

 fl. like the males, perianth hardly accrescent ; staminodes a membranous 

 cup; ovary oblong, retrorsely scaly, imperfectly 3-celled; style conic, 

 3-toothed, ovules 3, basilar. Fruit ellipsoid or subglobose, 1-celled, 

 1-seeded, pericarp tessellate with reversed scales ; endocarp spongy. Seed 

 erect, subglobose, rough ; albumen ruminate j embryo ventral. Species 6 ? 

 Malayan and Pacific. 



1. nx. Sag'us, Bottb. in Nye 8aml. K. Danah. Vid. Slcrift. ii. 527 ; 

 ■ spathes unarmed. Mic[. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 147 ; Beco. in Nuov. Giorn, 



Bot. Ital. iii. 29. M. inermis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 215. Sagus 

 Ifflvis, Rumph. Herb. Amb. i. 76 ; Blume Bumphia, ii. 147, t. 86; Oriff. in 

 Gala. Jowm. Nat. Sist. v. 20; Palms Brit. Ind. 24 (not t. 182). S. 

 Rumphii, Blume I. c. t. 126, 227. ? S. Kcenigi, Griff.. II. cc. 19 and 22, 

 1. 181. S. inermis, Bo^b. Fl. Ind. iii. 623. 



Malacca (wild or cult. ?) Jaci;, &c.— Disteib. Malay Islds. 



Trunk about 20 ft. with many basal offshoots, as stout as that of the cocoa-nut, 

 annulate, clothed above with old leaf sheaths. Leaves as in the cocoa-nut, but 

 more erect, unarmed j leaflets linear, acute, keeled, smooth. Infi. appearing when the 

 plant is about twenty years old. Spadices several, terminal, alternately branched, 

 spikes 5-8 in. Flowers minute, sunk in rusty wool, hardly larger than a grain of 

 mustard seed, bisexual. Fruit (takes three years to mature) globose, size of a small 

 apple, scales shining, channelled. — Desc. from Jack in Mai. Misc., but according 

 to Griffith the Indian Metrotnylon bears no resemblance to a Cocoa-nut Palm. — The 

 Sago Palm. 



2. Iff. RumpMi, Mart. Nat. Sist. Palm. iii. 213, 313, t. 102, 159 j 

 spathes armed with long spines. Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 140 ; Beoc. in Nuov, 

 Journ. Bot. Ital. iii. 30; Malesia, i. 91. Sagus 'Rumphii, Willd. Sp. PI. iv. 

 404 ; Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 623. S. genuina, Blume B/umphia, ii. 150. S. fari- 

 nifera, Osertn. ii. 186, t. 120, f. S.—Bumph. Herb. Amb. i. 75, t. 17, 18. 



Malacca (wild or cult.).— Distbib. Malay Islds. 



There appears to be great confusion in the synonymy of the two common species 

 of this genus, and that here given may be open to correction. Beccari states that 

 M. ErnnpUi is much less cultivated than M. Sagus. 



33. BORASSUSi Linn. 

 A very tall dioecious palm ; trunk stout, unarmed. Leaves terminal, 



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