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Welfia (named in honor of the English royal family). Palmaceae. Unarmed palm, with a thick tall reed-like caudex, suitable for the warmhouse: lvs. terminal, pinnatisect; segms. coriaceous, strongly narrowed at base, apex entire or acuminately cut, many-nerved, plicate: spadices stout, pendulous; spathes 2, deciduous: fls. in deep hexagonal depressions, monoecious; male asymmetrical, sepals lanceolate, acute, petals broadly ovate, obtuse, stamens numerous, ovary rudimentary; female about equaling the male, compressed, sepals free, cymbiform-lanceolate, acuminate, petals much larger, 2 lateral cymbiform wing-keeled, dorsal narrower, flat, staminodes in a conical cup, ovary conical-subulate, 3-celled: fr. oblong, compressed, about 2 in. long, dark violet. — Two species, Cent. Amer. and Colombia. W. regia, H. Wendl. Up to 60 ft. high: lvs. when young divided almost to the base into a pair of oblong acuminate lobes, having a bronzy tint, at length becoming pinnatisect, borne on slender petioles; adult lvs. about 20 ft. long, pinnae numerous, narrow, unequal, decurrent on the angular rachis, whitish beneath. G.C. 1870:764. F.M. 1873:60. I.H. 18:62.
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