. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . Fig, 31.—Caryota mitis, Lour., in flower in Victoria Gardens, Bombay. (Photograpli by Rev. M. Maier, S-J.) smaller, with fewer unequal scurfy branches and much smallerflowers. Male flowers very numerous, about ^ inch long, oblong,flesh-coloured, with reddish points; calyx cup-shaped, sepalsbroad, imbricate; petals 3, coriaceous, striate, almost distinct; JouRN. Bombay Nat, Hist, Soc. Plate Caryota Bum;phiana, Mart., in the Botanic Garden of Peradeniya. THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 86 stamens many, 17 according to Brandis, fil
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . Fig, 31.—Caryota mitis, Lour., in flower in Victoria Gardens, Bombay. (Photograpli by Rev. M. Maier, S-J.) smaller, with fewer unequal scurfy branches and much smallerflowers. Male flowers very numerous, about ^ inch long, oblong,flesh-coloured, with reddish points; calyx cup-shaped, sepalsbroad, imbricate; petals 3, coriaceous, striate, almost distinct; JouRN. Bombay Nat, Hist, Soc. Plate Caryota Bum;phiana, Mart., in the Botanic Garden of Peradeniya. THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 86 stamens many, 17 according to Brandis, filaments very short,united at the base; anthers linear, adnate, generally slightlymucronate ; pollen ovate-lanceolate, 1-or 3-plicate. Female flowersat the time of expansion of the males, minute, rudimentary, notdeveloped until after the males of the same spadix have fallen ofi,smaller than the males, not always solitary, but sometimes 2 or 3together, or solitarj^ with a scar of one male only ; sepals rounded,with a brown intramarginal line, and ciliate edges ; petals 3, twiceas long as the sepals, valvate, coriaceous, brown ; staminodes 3,j^ellowish, tips glandular; ovary roundish ovate, with 3 obtuseangles. Fruit \ inch in diameter, red\ surrounded at the base by theperianth, depressed, rather round; epicarp brittle, globose ; albumen horny, ruminate ; embryo dorsal. Habitat.—Burma ; from Arakan southwards ; Martaban ; M
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