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'Perennial. Inflorescence axillary. Flow- 

 ers hermaphrodite, solitary, or two or 

 Pinnately divided. ..■{ three together. Corolla tripartite. Sta- 



I mens perigynous : filaments at the faux 

 combined into an annulus. Fruit as in 



*- Livistona. Licuala. 



Leaves Pinnate. Phoenix. 



Sect. I. 



Folia flabelliformia. Flores hermaphroditi, rarius poly- 

 gami. Spathce plures incompletse. Corolla valvata. Sta- 

 mina 6, saepius perigyna. Styli connati. Drupa rarius bacca. 

 Semen superficie laeviusculum, vel (in Chamaeropide) verti- 

 caliter sulcatum. Albumen centro-cavum, vel processu in- 

 trante excavatum, vel (in Chamaeropide) exaratum, interdum 

 sub-ruminatum. 



Palmas frutescentes vel arborece, perennantes vel monocar- 

 picce, in umbrosis humidisque vigentes. Folia palmaiim vel 

 (in Licuala) pinnatim flabelliformia, interdum maxima, pli- 

 cata, laciniis ut plurimum bifidis : petioli inermes vel scepius 

 secus margines aculeati. Spadices perennantium axillares, 

 monocarpicarum terminales, maximae. Spathae plures, in- 

 completae, vaginantes. Flores sessiles, solitarii vel scepe glo- 

 merulati, scepe obscure \-bracteati. Stamina in tripetalis 

 libera, hypogyna, in reliquis perigyna, filamentis scepe in 

 annulum faucinum coalitis. Antherae versatiles. Ovarium 

 scepius vertice exsculptum. Baccae drupseve olivacece, rubrce 

 vel cyanece. 



Incolae Americae tropicae, Australian, et Asiae praesertim 

 ultragangeticae et archipelagicae. Species una Mediterranea, 

 altera Affghanensis. Limes borealis specierum indicarum 

 30-31 grad. alt. supra mare 1,000—1,500 pedum. 



Usus. — Foliorum pinnis exsiccatis inscribere solent indi- 

 genae. 



CORYPHA. 



Linn. (Mus. Cliff. 11.) Gen. PL ed. Qta.p. 572. No. 1221. 

 ed. Schreber. p. 774. No. 1690. Syst. PL ed. Schult. 7. p. 

 lxxviii. No. 1493. Juss. Gen. p. 39. (partim.) Gcertn. 



