CLVI. PALMACE^ 
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Vr, Borassineje. Tall erect palms. Leaves fan-shaped, spadices inter- 
foliar unisexual. Male flowers minute, sunk in cavities of the cylindric spadix. 
Females large sessile with large round coriaceous bracts. 
29. Borassus 
VH. NiPACEiE. Stem stout, creeping. Leaves very large, pinnate, in 
tufts; leaflets narrow. Inflorescence axillary, dense with several bracts. 
Male flowers in dense catkins. Sepals linear, tips inflexed, 3. Petals smaller. 
Stamens 3. Female flowers in a dense head. Carpels 3. Fruit a syncarp 
of obovoid compressed fibrous and woody carpels, i-celled, i-sceded. 
30. Nipa 
1 . ARECA, Linn, 
Large or small palms; stems solitary or several. Leaves pin¬ 
nate. Panicles infrafoliar, terminal part male, a few females at 
base of each branch. Males asymnnetric, very small. Petals lanceo¬ 
late oblique. Stamens 3 to 12. Females much larger. Fruit ovoid; 
pericarp fibrous. Albumen ruminate. Seed ovoid or fusiform. 
Species 10, Indo-Malaya, Australia. 
Stamens 3. 
Stem solitary, stout, 2 in. through; seed ovoid; leaf¬ 
lets narrow . . , . . . . (i) A. piimila 
Stem solitary, slender, 5 in. through; leaf-lobes very 
broad . . . . . . . . (2) A. latiloba 
Stems numerous, i to 1*5 in. through; seed conic . (3) A. triandra 
Stems slender, -5 in. through . . . . . (4) A. inontana 
Stamens 6; stem solitary, stout, 8 to 12 in. through . (5) A. catechu 
Stamens 8 to 12. 
Stems-25 in. through; fruit fusiform . . ■ (6) A. furcata 
(1) A. pumilaB/. Rumphia, 71, t. 99, 102 (not of Mart.). 
Stem solitary, 10 to 15 ft. tall, 2 in. through. Leaves 6 ft. long; 
leaflets broad, 18 in. long, 3 in. wide, acuminate. Spadix 9 in. long, 
branches about 13, 4 in. long. Male spikes slender, 6 in. long. 
Stamens 3. Fruit 1*5 in. long, -75 in. through, beaked, red or 
cream, tipped red both ends. Seed ovoid, base broad. Hah. Hill 
forests, Negri Sembilan, Gunong Angsi (Burkill); Gintiiig Eidai. 
Pahang, Telom, Perak, Thaiping Hills. Penang, Waterfall. Lan- 
kawi, Kw'ah (Curtis). Disirib. Java. 
(2) A. latiloba Ridl. 
Stem solitary, 5 ft. tall, *5 in. through. Leaves 3 ft. long or 
more, cut into broad rhomboid sigmoid lobes with broad bases, tip 
long acuminate; nerves strong, 10 to 12 on a lobe; lobes i ft . long, 3 to 
4-5 in. wide, the top pair very unequal. Spadix 9 in. long; branches 
slender in flower, thicker in fruit, in pairs on a short peduncle 
below, solitary above. Male flowers *18 in. long. Sepals very 
small. Petals lanceolate-acute. Stamens 3; filaments connate below. 
Female flowers one on each branch or only on middle branches. 
Sepals ovate acute. Petals oblong blunt, -4 in. long. Fruit i in. 
long, *5 in. through, fibrous, coat thin. Hah. Mountain forests at 
2400 ft. altitude. Negri Sembilan, Bukit Tangga (Ridley). 
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