PALMÆ, Palms. Under this name Linnaeus has arranged several genera, which, although capable of a place in separate classes of his system, he chooses rather, on account of their singular structure, to place apart, in an appendix to the work.—See Botany Index.

The same plants constitute one of the seven families or tribes into which all vegetables are distributed by Linnaeus in his Philosophia Botanica. They are defined to be plants with simple stems, which at their summit bear leaves resembling those of the ferns, being a composition of a leaf and a branch; and whose flowers and fruit are produced on that particular receptacle or seat called a spadix, protruded from a common calyx in form of a sheath or scabbard, termed by Linnaeus spathe.

Palme is likewise the name of the first order in Linnaeus's Fragments of a Natural Method.