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XXIII. PALMiB. 



Date. Fruit, 



ib^ 



Date. 



Fruit cut vertically. 



sobolifera. 



Date. Seed cut transversely 

 (mag.). ■ 



Date. 

 Embryo (mag.). 



Teibe I. AEEGINE^. 



Trees Or shrubs with pinnate, pinnatifid or bipinnate leaves ; pinnules with 

 curved margins. Spathe polyphyllous, rarely monophyllous, very rarely 0. Flowers 

 monceoious or dioecious, sessile on a smooth foveolate or bracteolate rachis. 

 Stamens hypogynous. Fruit deeply 3-lobed, a berry or drupe. Albumen homo- 

 geneous or ruminate. Embryo usually basilar. 



PEINCIPAL GENERA. 

 * Chameedorea. * Areca. ' Harina. 



Iriartea. Hyophorbe. Kentia. 



Seaforthia. * Arenga. Oreodoxa. 



