Cncos.] OLxiii. PALMES. (Beccari & Hook, f .) 483 



614 ; Thw. Enum. 330 : Bromd. For. Fi 556 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 540 ; Bliime 

 Bumph. iii. 83 ; Mi,q. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 64 ; Hook. Journ. Sot. ii. (1850), t. 1. 

 C. nana. Griff. Nolul. ii. IQH.—Rheede Sort. Mai. i. t. 1-4. 



Cultivated in the hot damp regions of India, Burma, and Ceylon, especially 

 near the sea (indigenous in the Cocos Isld, and N, Andaman, Kwre).— Distbib. 

 All tropical shores. 



Trunk 40-80 ft., flexnous, annulate, base thickened, hemes 12-18 ft. ; leaflets 

 2-3 ft., coriaceous, flaccid ; petiole 3-5 ft. stout. Spadiw 4-6 ft., branches flexuous ; 

 lower spathe 2-3 ft., oblong, hard, splitting lengthwise j male fl. small ; fern. 1 in. 

 long, 2-bracteolate, disk annular. Drupe 4-10 in. long, trigonously obovoid or sub. 

 globose, green or yellowish ; albumen lining the endooarp, C. nana is a small low 

 var. grown in the Maldive Islds. and Ceylon. 



ADDENUnM TO PaLMS. 



Tetsmannia altifeons, Eeichi. f. ^ Zoll. in Linnaa xxviii. 657 ; Miq. Fl. In/f,. 

 Bat. iii. 749. — Mr. Ridley (Singapore) informs that this noble Sumatrau Palm is 

 also a native of the Malay Peninsula. The genus is of doubtful affinity, but most 

 probably belongs to the Tribe CorypheiB, It may be recognized by its almost 

 stemless habit, and enormous erect elongate-rhombic plaited leaves. 



Obseb clxiy. pandanex:. 



Small dioeoions trees or strubs, often scandent with aerial roots. Leaves 

 usually trifarions, narrow, acuminate, coriaceous, margins and keel usually 

 spinously toothed. Spadices axillary or terminal, simple or braii.jsh.ed, 

 clothed with leafy spathes; flower's small, crowded on a catkin-like spadix 

 or its branches, bracts and bracteoles 0. PenantJi 0. Male fl. stamens 

 many, filaments free or connate ; anthers erect, basiflxed ; pistillode or 

 small. Fern. fl. st^Tninodes or small ; ovary ] -celled, free or connate with 

 those of contiguous flowers ; stigmas snbsessile, papillose ; ovules solitary 

 and suberect, or many and parietal. Fruit a globose oblong mass oFfree 

 or connate l-oo'^Iled woody or fleshy angular drupes. Seeds minute, testa 

 striated, albumen hard fleshy ; embryo minute. 



Stem erect or prostrate. Starainodes in fem. fl. 0. Carpels 1-ovuled. 1. Pandanus. 

 Stem usually climbing. Staminodes of fem. fl. hjpugynous. Car- 

 pels many ovuled 2. Freycinbtia. 



1. F AND ANUS, Lmn.f. 



Characters as above. — Species numerous, all tropical, chiefly Mascarena 

 and Malayan. 



I am compelled to be brief with the characters of the Indian species, very few 

 of which are fully described ; and of the Malayan especially, the available specimens 

 are most unsatisfactory. I omit many usually cited references, and some synonyms 

 which appear to me to be doubtful, and am by no means confident as to the value of 

 much that remains. 



* Carpels not united in groups. 



t Male fl. of free stamens with very short filaments. Drupes with a 

 pyramidal crown produced into a straight or carved spinescent style. 



1. P. fcetidus, Soab. Fl. Ind. iii. 742; shrubby, leaves 4-6 ft. by 

 3-4 in., strongly spinous-toothed, anthers very long ulender, fruit sub- 

 solitary oblong or subglobose, crown of drupes smooth oi nearly so. Kunth 



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