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with more distinctly raised venation. Flowers fewer in an umbel. 
Fruit pedicels \ in. long. S. pseudo-china, Sieber , Herb . Maur. 195. 
Var. Boutoni, Baker. Leaves ovate, acute, 1^-2 in. long, rounded 
or slightly cordate at the base ; petiole i in. long. Stem much more 
slender than in the type, and flowers not more than 20 in an umbel on 
in. pedicels. 
Mauritius, the type in woods ; the two varieties in more open situations. Also 
Bourbon and Madagascar and very near the Australian S. latifolia R. Br. Salse- 
pareille indigene. 
Order XCIX. BALMM. 
(By Dr I. B. Balfour, F.L.S.) 
Flowers polygamo-monoicous or dioicous. Perianth 6-partite, 
persistent. Stamens 6 or many, rarely 3, frequently mona- 
delphous, often represented in the female flower by a toothed cup ; 
anthers 2-celled. Ovary free, represented by a rudiment in the 
male flower ; carpels 3, united or distinct ; ovules usually solitary in 
the cells ; style and stigma simple. Fruit indehiscent, dry or succu- 
lent. Seed more or less adherent to the endocarp, with a small embryo 
near the outside of a mass of cartilaginous often ruminate albumen. 
— Stems woody, frequently of great height, unbranched, usually marked 
round with the scars of fallen leaves, often spiny ; leaves in a terminal 
cluster, entire or flabellately or pinnately cut, w ith sheathing petioles ; 
flowers on usually branching spadices, enclosed in spathes. Distrib. 
Bound the world in the warmer zones. Species about 1000. 
Leaves palmatifid. 
Drupe over 1 foot long. Pyrene usually 2-lobed . . 1 . Lodoicea. 
Drupe under 3 in. long. Pyrenes 3 2. Latania. 
Leaves pinnatisect. 
Leaves equally pinnatisect. 
Flowers in 6- 7-flowered clusters 3. Hyophorbe. 
Flowers in 3 -flowered clusters. 
Stigma apical 4. Dictyosperma. 
Stigma subbasilar. 
Fruit globose 5. Acanthophcenix. 
Fruit compressed 6. Deckenia. 
Leaves unequally pinnatisect. 
Fruit globose ; stigma lateral 7. Nephrosperma. 
Fruit elliptical ; stigma subbasilar 8. Roscheria. 
Leaves entire or not pinnatisect. 
Endocarp furrowed 9. Verschaffeltia. 
Endocarp not furrowed 10. Steven sonia. 
1. LODOICEA, Comm. 
Dioicous. Flowers in axillary spadices, surrounded at the bfise by 
several obliquely truncate spathes. Male. Spikes cylindrical, the flowers 
in subreniform clusters in hollows of the axis, imbricated in two rows, 
