470 



Gen. Chab. Flowers dioecious on a spadix sheathed with many 

 incomplete spathes. Males. — Catkins cyUndric from the coalition of 

 densely imhricated scales : flowers bracteate, aggregated in two 

 rows in the depressions, emerging by degrees : outer calyx 3-cleft, 

 inner 3-parted : stamens 6 : filaments connate at the base : anthers 

 sagittate. Females. — Catkins fewer, less densely sealed : flowers 

 solitary between the scales, bracts in pairs, at first altogether over- 

 lapped by fours or more : outer calyx 3-, inner 6-sepaled : abortive 

 stamens 6 : ovary 3, rarely 2 — l-ceUed : stigmas as many as the 

 cells, sessile : drupe 3-, seldom 2 — 4-Btoned : sarooearp fieshy, 

 fibrous : stones of the drupe oboordate, compressed, woody and 

 fibrous : albumen cartilaginous : embryo vertical. 



(1) B. riABELUTOEms. flAnn.) 



Linn. flor. Zeyl. 395.— Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 790. 



, Eheede Mai. I. t. 9, 10.— Eoxb. Cor. I. t. 71, 72.— 

 Mart." Palm. t. 108, 121, 162. 



Spec. Chae. Stem 30 — 100-feet: fronds terminal : leaves very 

 large, fan-shaped, segments 2-cleft at the apex : petioles serrated 

 and spinous on the margins : fruit large, spherical, obscurely brown 

 when ripe. 



Malabar and Travancore, in sandy places towards the south. 

 Coromandel. Bengal. Plowering in the hot season. 



GENUS VII. BENTINCKIA. 



Monoeeia Bexandpla. Sex: Syst: 



Lerw. In honour of Lord "W". Bentinck ; some time Governor- 

 General of India. 



Gen. Chae. Flowers monoecious in distinct spadices or seldom 

 polygamous : spathes two or more, membranaceous, basilar, lowest 

 ones complete : flowers in the depressions of the rhachis, at length 

 emerging : a few males alternately distichous, females soKtary : 

 either calyx 3-sepaled. Males. — Stamens 6, filaments distinct : 

 anthers linear : rudiment of a pistil. Females. — Stamens 6, without 

 anthers : ovary 3-celled : stigmas 3, sessile : berry spherical, 

 succulent, 1-seeded : sarcocarp from woody branched fibres: endo-- 

 carp papyraceous : nucleus furrowed : albumen solid : embryo 

 Bub-basilar. 



(1) B. CoHDAPAifKA. (Berry. J 



Berry in Eoxb. flor. Ind. III. 621.— Mart. Palm. 165, 

 229, and t. 139. 



