No. 264. 
Livistona australis Mart. 
The Cabbage Palm. 
(Family PALM^E.) 
Botanical description. Genus Livistona R.Br., in Prodromus, p. 267 (1810). 
Flowers hermaphrodite, in a loose panicle, with sheathing bracts on the main rhachis and peduncle. 
Outer perianth thin, three-lobed or three-toothed, inner longer, of three valvate segments. 
Stamens six, distinct, but contiguous ; filaments broad and thick, very shortly filiform at the top ; 
anthers small, ovate. 
Ovary laterally three-lobed, the carpels readily separating, with one erect ovule in each. 
Style shortly columnar, with a three-toothed stigma. 
Fruit ovoid or globular, reduced by abortion to a single carpel, the pericarp not thick, hard when 
dry. 
Seed erect, the hilum somewhat lateral. Albumen with a deep, broad excavation on the inner 
side, filled with a brown spongy tissue. Embryo dorsal. 
Low or tall, erect palms. 
Leaves fan-shaped, plicate, the lobes or segments acuminate and entire or two-cleft, and frequently 
a small bristle or filament between the lobes. 
Panicles usually large and decompound from among the leaves. 
Flowers very small, solitary or clustered along the slender rhachis of the ultimate branches. (B.F1. 
vii, 145.) 
We then have the interesting account by Robert Brown in the Prodromus, of 
which the following translation is offered. It will be seen that the generic description 
of Corypha was drawn up by Brown from C. australis, which is none other than our 
Cabbage Palm (Livistona australis). 
Corypha L. Gaertner. 
Flowers hermaphrodite. Perianth double, both divided into three parts. Stamens six, filaments 
distinct, dilated at the base. Ovaries three, cohering within. Styles connate. Stigma undivided. The 
one berry ripening, globular, monospermous. Albumen hollow. Embryo basilar. 
Obs. The description is drawn from Corypha australis, in which the excavation of albumen is on 
the inner side, half-filled with a corky substance, so that, therefore, perhaps it is more allied to Livistona 
than to Corypha iimbraculifcra. 
1. C. australis fronds flibellate-palmate, with no threads, petiole.? spinulosc, outer perianth triful 
(three-cleft), acute. 
