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3. ACTINORHYTIS, H. Wendl. 



Stems stont, annulate, unarmed. Leaves pinnate. Spathes 2, 

 caducous. Spadix shortly peduncled with pendulous, flexuous 

 branches. Flowers monoicous on the same spadix, near the base 

 two males with a female between, above solitary or twin bracteate 

 males. Male flowers many, minute. Sepals 3, imbricate. Petals 3, 

 valvate. Stamens 24-30, in fascicles ; anthers linear, versatile. 

 Female flowers much larger than the males. Perianth accrescent, 

 l-eelled, ovule 1, pendulous. Fruit large, ellipsoid; pericarp fleshy 

 fibrous ; endocarp crustaceous, albumen ruminate. 



A. capjpariaf "Wendl. et Drude in Linnrea XXXIX. 184. Areea cocoides. 

 Griff. Palms. Brit. Ind. 150. t. 230 B. Bd^yn supdri, K. 



Planted thronghont ^^'orth Kanara in the supari gardens of the Haiga 

 Brahmins, probably introduced at the same time and along with the supi'iri. 

 Fl. C. S. Said to be indigenous in the islands of the Alalay Arehipelagj. 

 Fr. ripe next C.S. Stems smooth, grey, 60 feet high by 1 foot in diameter.. 



4. ARENGA, LabilL 



Stems simple, erect, covered with the remains of the fil3rou9 

 leaf-sheaths. Leaves terminal, long, pinnate, white beneath ; pinnjB 

 praemorse, pinnicostate, 1-2-auricled at the base. Spathes many, 

 basilar. Spadices from the axils of green leaves, large, panicled. 

 Males and females usually solitary and on separate spadices. Male 

 fl. Sepals 3, orbicular, imbricate in bud. Petals 3, valvate. Sta- 

 mens indefinite. Female fl. Perianth of the male, accrescent,. 

 Staminodes many or 0. Ovary 3-celled, cells 1-ovuled. Fruit 

 ebovoid, 2-3-seeded ; stigmas terminal. Albumen not ruminate^ 

 embryo dorsal. 



A. Wightii, Griff, in Calc. Jour. Nat. Hist. V. 475 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 

 167. t. 235 E. ; Fl. Br. I. 6. 422. Dadsel, K. 



On the Ankala taluka ghats of North. Kanara, common on the Mnshki 

 ^hat at about 1,500 feet elevation, in moist forests, gregarious but very 

 local ; very common on the ghats near the falls of Gairsoppah in ever- 

 green forests. !Male flowers strongly scented. FL C. S. Fr. E. & C. S. 



A short thick-stemmed palm. Stem up to 10 ft. long, covered with the 

 bases of the leaf -sheaths. Fmits arrang-ed spirally on the branches of the 

 ^ spadix,, obconic, triangular, top much depressed, 1 in. in diam., S-seeded, 

 crowned with the remains of the 3-cleft stigma and surrounded at the base 

 by the thick valvate corolla lobes, underneath which is the small lobed 

 calyx cup. Seeds 3, smooth. Albumen white horny, equable. 



6, CARYOTA, Linn. 



Tall palms flowering' fram the upper lea ^ sheaths, and successively 

 from lower (alteniately male and female iufloroscences). The 

 trunk naked or sheathed. Leaves bipinuate, pinnides wedge-shaped,, 



