1672 CXLII. PALM^. 



Tribe III. Coryplieae,— Leaves Jlaiellifonn, orbiculai- or cuneiform, plaited, lohed or 

 segments with indwplicate sides. Spadices interfoliar .; spathamany. Flower usually buexual. . 

 Ovary entire or 3-lobed or of 1 to 3 smooth carpels. Fruit smooth. Seeds with a small hilum; 

 raphe ventral. 



* Stigma in the fruit terminal. Albumen equable ; embryo dorsal. 



Ovary of 3-trigonous carpels. Style filiform 11. LicniLA. 



Ovary of 3 globose carpels. Styles 3 free or coherent . . . . , . .12. Livistona. 



Tkibe IV. Xiepidocaryeae. — Leaves pinnatisect, leaf segments with reduplicate sides. 

 Spadices interfoliar or terminal ; spatha usually many. Ovary 1 to Z-celled. Fruit clothed with 

 reflexed shining closely imbricate appressed scales. 



Stems elongate most frequently climbing. Leaf-segments acuminate, 

 entire, nerves parallel. Spatba tubular, persistent .13. CALAMn«. 



Teibe V. Borassese. — Leaves flabelliform. Spadices interfoliar; ' spatha numerous 

 sheathing. Flowers dicecious ; males minute, sunk in cavities of the catkin-like branches ; 

 perianth ghimaceous ; females very large, sessile on very short branches of a very stout spadix, 

 ■each clothed toith large coriaceous rounded bracts. 

 Male flowers numerous in alveolate spadices; stamens 6 14. BonAssus. 



Teibe VI. CoooixieBb.— Leaves pinnatisect, segments with reduplicate sides. Spadices 

 interfoliar, unisexual or androgynous ; spatha 2. Ovary 3-celled, stigmas terminal. Fruit a 

 drupe with a fibrous pericarp and terminal stigmas ; endocarp woody or stoney, with 8 terminal 

 pits of which two answer to arrested cells, the third it immediately over the position of the emln'yo 

 ■in the subjacent albumen. Seed adherent to the endocarp by the diffuse reticulations of the raphe, 

 ■which ramifies all over the seed. 

 Male flowers, petals lanceolflte. Stamens 6. Fruit 1-seeded .... 15. Cooos. 



1. ARECA, Linn. 



(From the Malabar name of the old trees of one species.) 



Flowers monoecious in the same spadix, the upper ones or all of some branches 

 males and singly sessile or two together, the females singly sessile along the 

 main rhachis or at the base of the branches. Male flowers : outer perianth- 

 segments scarcely imbricate ; the inner 3-valvate. Stamens 3 to 6 ; filaments 

 short ; anthers basifixed erect ; ovary rudimentary. Female flowers : perianth- 

 fiegments of both series imbricate. Staminodia small, Ovary 1-celled, with 1 

 ■erect ovule. Stigmas 3. Drupe ovoid or oblong, the exoearp succulent, fibrous 

 "when dry. Seed erect, albumen deeply ruminate, embryo basilar. — Usually 

 tall palms. Leaves pinnats, the spatha single ; mostly Asiastic. 



Stems several, 6 to 10ft. high. Leaves 3 to 6ft. long, the upper segments 



often broad and confluent. Stamens 3. Fruit elongate-pyritorm . . I. A. Alices. 



'Stem single, 15 to 20ft. high. Leaves 9 to 12ft. long, segments 70 to 80 " • - 



on each side of the rhachis. Stamens 6. Fruit oval, about Jin. long . 2. A. appendiculata. 



1. A. Alicae (after the Princess Alice), F. v. M. in Regel's Gartenft-ora, 199 

 ■to 201. " Goolanjurie," Cairns, Nugent. Stems clustered, rather slender, 6 to 

 10ft. high. Leaves 3 to 6ft. long ; segments somewhat erect, more or less 

 confluent, acuminate. Panicle below the leaves, much branched.; 3 stamens in 

 the male flowers. Fruit elongate-pyriform, or nearly fugifprm. .Seed ellipsoid- 

 •ovate, — F. v. M. Fragm. xi. 88. ... - ., 



Hab.: Cairns, W. Hill. 



2. A., appendiculata (referring to appendage on petals). Bail. Hot. Bull. 

 iv. Trunk erect, with a diameter of about 1ft., attaining 20ft. in height to the 

 base of the crown. Leaves 9 to 12ft. long, from 12 to 20 forming the crown, 

 sheathing base short, petiole or portion without pinnffi also short, pinnas alternate 

 •or subopposite, from 70 to 80 on each side of rhachis, the longest about 2Jft. 

 long and IJin. broad, those of the apex confluent at the base, forming a fan-like 

 termination to the leaf : folded upon the rhachis, and tapering to a narrow, 

 •oblique, sometimes toothed poir*- "_sd?r scrf.ase yihito sr emi, clotted with minute 



