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Afchontopkoenix Cumringkamiana 
Wendl., and Drude. 
The Bangalow Palm. 
(Family PALM^E.) 
Botanical description. (Jcnus, ArcJiontoplicenix Wendland and Drude, in Linncea 
xxxix, 182 (1875). 
We have only to turn to B.F1. vii, and other works, to see how this palm hars 
been confused with Ptychosperma, and it is therefore convenient to have a translation 
(from p. 190) of Wendland and Drude's contrast of the two genera. 
Stamens 9-24. Albumen ruminate._ 
Male flowers oblique. Stamens 9-18. Seed without fur- 
rows. Segments acuminate, marginal nerves fine ... ArchontopJicenix. 
Male flowers symmetrical, straight. Stamens about 24. 
Seed 5-furrowed. Segments erose, marginal nerves 
marked Ptycliosperma. 
I offer a translation of the genus from p. 182 of the above work. 
Anliotttopluenix. Spadices triplicate-branched. Spathes 2. Glomerules 3-flowerecl, spirally 
arranged towards the. apex of the branches, or biflowered by abortion of the female flowers. Malt -flowers 
obliquely evolute. Stamens exsert, 9-18, anthers versatile, venation geniculated. The imperfectly 
developed ovary pyramidal styliform. Female jloivers Buds parietal, fruits elliptical-globose, scarlet; 
the terminal portion of the stigma oblique. 
The fibres of the mesocarp strong, branched, forked ; eridocarp very fine, firmly adhering to the seed. 
Seed without furrows ; the broad raphe emitting a few branches, more from the chalaza. 
Albumen deeply ruminate. Stems tall. Leaves equally pinnatisect, segments acuminate, the 
inferior nerves distant from tin- margin : petiole and midrib slightly scaly. On the north and east coasts 
of Australia. 
Then again we have from p. 211 : 
8. Arclum' oplwenix H.W. et O.Dr. 
Monoecious Palms. Spadices triplicate-branched, the branchlets pendent, elongate, involute before 
expansion, two complete caducous spathes. Flowers arraiiged in 3-flowered glomeruli at the base of the 
branches, the intermediate female flower late, the male flowers gathered together in twos in the upper part 
or even in the middle, or solitary at the apex, sessile in bracteolate hollows ; all form a loose spiral. Mule 
flowers Calyx 3-lobed, sepals during estivation convolnte-imbricate. rotundate. keel-shaped, closely 
