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calyx 3-sepaled, sepals convolute-imbricated: rudiments of stamens': 

 ovary ovate, 3-ceUed f stigmas 3, sessUe, spreading : drupe berry- 

 shaped, 1 -seeded: sarcocarp fibrous: putamen thin, crustaceous or 

 membranaceous, connate with the testa: albumen ruminated, 

 homy : embryo basilar, or lateral near the base. — Stem tail, slender,- 

 or sub-flexuQse, ringed, polished, unarmed or prickly : fronds all 

 terminal, pinnate, pinnae spreading like a comb, lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, upper ones often confluent and prsemorse at the apex : rhachis 

 unarmed or prickley: petioles far sheathing, base cyHndric: spadixes 

 springing below the lower leaves, simply or duplieately branched, 

 seldom simple, branches festigiate : spathes membranaceous or 

 fibrous, coriaceous : bracts and bracteoles sometimes inconspicuous : 

 fruit oval or rarely globose. 



(1) A. TBIANBBA. fHoxKJ 



Bent. Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. 617. 



Ungrav. Mart. Palm. 171, t. 149. 



Spec. Chae. Unaimed : stem tall, stoloniferous : pinnse oblong- 

 lineax or linear, lower ones ensiform-acuminate, upper ones often 

 confluent, truncated, toothed : spadix much branched, erect : male 

 flowers twin in one row, triandrous : fruit oblong, size of an olive, 

 sparingly pulpy, deep orange, at length red. 



Chittagong. SUhet. Flowering from May to Jaiiuaiy. 



GENUS II. SEAFOETHIA. 

 ^olygamia IMCoiicefeia, Sexi St/sii 



Deriv. In honour of Francis, Lord Seaforth, a patron of Botany. 



Gen. Chae. Flowers polygamo-monoecious on a branched spadix, 

 sessile, bracteolate, males upper or twin below surrounding single 

 females: spathe double, inner complete. Males. — Outer calyx 

 S-sepaled, sepals ovate, imbricated, inner 3-cleft, segments oblong, 

 valvate : stamens numerous, filaments filiform', free : anthers linear, 

 sub-sagittate. Females. — Calyx as in the male : sepals imbricate- 

 convolute : ovary l-ceUed, 1-ovuled, ovule erect : style very short, 

 terminal: stigma 3-lobed or capitate: berry 1 -seeded: albumen 

 ruminated : embryo basilar. — Unarmed : stem ringed : fronds large, 

 pinnate : pkmse reduplicate, eroded : spadixes below the fronds, 

 lateral, simply or doubly branched : flowers for the most part 

 green : berries oval : seed mostly striated or furrowed. 



