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distinct carpels, becoming sometimes connate; 

 ovules solitary, erect, lateral or horizontal ; 

 fruit baccate or drupaceous, threefold, deeply 

 lobed, or, by abortion, double or single. 

 Among the members of this division are 

 the Ceylon Talipot-palm (Corypha umbra- 

 culifera), and the Date-palm {Phoenix dacty- 

 lifera). 



II. S UB-ORDER — Telespatheous-Palms (Telespathese). 



Spathes occasionally absent, always complete 

 when present. 



4. Family. — Betel-nut Palms (Arecacese). Trees; 



spadix scaly ; spathe often wanting ; stamens 

 hypogynous ; ovary mostly of three connate 

 carpels, which are tri-locular ; ovules erect ; 

 fruit baccate or semi-drupaceous, tri-locular, 

 or deeply 3-lobed, 1 -seeded. Yield the Betel- 

 nut (Areca Catechu), which also supplies 

 Colombo Catechu ; the Cabbage-palm of the 

 West Indies is A. oleracea; Saguerus 

 Rumphii is one of the sources of the Sago 

 of commerce. 



5. Family. — Oil-yielding Palms (Cocacese). Usual- 



ly trees ; stems sometimes spiny ; stamens 

 six or more, hypogynous ; filaments some- 

 times conjoined at their base ; pistil of three 

 united carpels, rarely 2- 4- 5- or 6 ; ovules 

 solitary, erect or horizontal; fruit drupace- 

 ous, 1 -seeded, generally uni-locular ; endocarp 

 thick, osseous, or stony ; putamen with its 



