1678 CXLIl. PALM.E. [DrymopMceus. 



furfuraceous 3-gonal, sheath elongated. Spadix various, peduncle short, branches 

 very often slender ; spathse 2 or more lower bicristate, bracts and btiacteoles 

 squamiform. 



Species belong to New Guinea, Australia, Pacific Island and Molucca. 



1. I>. XTormanbyi (after the Marquis of Normanby), Benth. and Hook. Gen. 

 PI. iii. Black Palm. Stein stout, very hard and dark coloured, more or less 

 enlarged at the base, attaining the height o£ 60 or more feet. Leaves 6 to 8ft. 

 long, little or no petiole, the rhachis reaching to the top of the rather long sheath, 

 very stout, covered with white mealy hairs ; segments divided to the base, 

 usually into 9 narrow lobes about l^ft. long and lin. broad, toothed at the apex. 

 The nerves numerous and prominent, underside whitish. Peduncle short, the 

 panicle branches compressed. Flowers spirally disposed ; males solitary or in 

 twos, sessile but not immersed, the females on the lower part of the branches 

 of ten solitary. Male flowers : Sepals roundly-cordate, about 1 -I lines long. Petals 

 valvate, ovate-lanceolate, connate at the base, 3 to 4 lines long. Filaments 1 to 

 1| lines long, linear-setaceous ; anthers 2-lobed at the base, the apex emarginate, 

 connective rose-coloured, cells white ; ovary fusiform-clavate, style filiform 3 lines 

 long. Female flowers : Sepals and petals imbricate, about 2 lines long. 

 Staminodia none. Fruit about Ijin, long somewhat pear-shaped ; the pericarp 

 when fresh somewhat fleshy and reddish ; seed about lin. diameter,. — Areca 

 Normanhyi, F. v. M. Fragm. viii. 235, and Benth. Fl. Austr. vii. 142 ; Satjuenis 

 aiistralasicics, Wendl. and Drude in Linnsea xxxix. 219 ; Arenga sp. Benth. Fl. 

 Austr. vii. 143 ; Cocos Normanbyi, W. Hill, Rep. Brisb. Bot. Gar. 1874, p. 6. 



Hab.: Daintree River, W. Hill; Goold Island, J. Dallachy ; and other tropical scrubs. 

 Wood or the outer part of stem very hard, black beautifully marked ; used for walking sticks, 

 Baileifs Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 419. 



6. CALYPTROCALYX, Blume. 



(From kalyptra, an extinguisher, and kalyx, in allusion to the form of the outer 



perianth segments.) 



Spadices interfoliar, simple, very long, flowers monoscious, on the same spadix 

 spirally disposed, immersed in pits, 3-nate the centre one female, with bracts and 

 bracteoles. Male flowers symmetrical. Sepals orbicular, cucullate, thick 

 coriaceous, broadly imbricate. Petals slightly longer, broadly ovate, obtuse 

 valvate. Stamens numerous, crowded at the base of the perianth, the inner ones 

 imperfect, filaments of unequal lengths, subulate, straight, connate at the base ; 

 anthers linear, the base 2-fid, basifixed, versatile. Ovary rudimentary small. 

 Female flowers smaller than the males, subglobose, the perianth enlarging after 

 flowering. Sepals orbicular, broadly imbricate. Petals slightly longer, 

 orbicular, convolute-imbricate, acute at the apex, connivent-valvate. Staminodia 

 6 or more. Ovary oblong-ovoid subtrigonous, 1-celled. Stigma thick, conical, 

 3-fid ; ovule parietal. Fruit ovoid or oliveform, subrostrate, stigmas terminal 

 umbonate ; pericarp thick, fibrous and juicy ; endocarp fibrous, adhering to the 

 seed. Seed ovoid or subglobose, hilum lateral elongate, albumen deeply 

 ruminate ; embryo basal. — Slender unarmed palms. 



1. C. australasicus (Australian), Scheff. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. i. 131, 

 140, B. and H. Gen. PL iii. 903. Stems 12tt. high and 2in. or more in 

 diameter. Leaves several feet long, the segments numerous, acuminate or 

 slightly notched at the end, the rhachis slightly scurfy. Spikes simple rope- 

 like, peduncles flattened, long as the spikes, about 15in. each, the rhachis 3 or 4 

 lines diameter, the notches spirally approximate with very prominent borders. 

 Flowers male : very numerous, in twos closely pressed to each other, 3-angular, 

 sepals glabrous; petals slightly smaller and somewhat silky. Filaments very 



