lis 



4 COCOS BOTRYOPHORA. Tab. 83. 84. 



C eaudice proccrrlmo subregxdariter annulate; frondibus erecto -]xdentibus } pinnis Uncari - acuminata densis subcrispis; pctaiix ma$- 

 ctdis erassis; jlortbus foemineis ovato - f/tobosis ; drupis eUipticis confertis. 



Cocos de Patf, Maximilian Prinz von Neuwicd, Rcisc nach Brasilien. I. p. 271. 



DESCHIPTIQ. Cavdex ItADiVlIWS cylindricts digitum minimum erassis ct nonnullos polliccs longis 

 dense conquictis in molem unum duosvc pedes diamctro acquantcm ierrac infixus, in altitudincm <jninquaginta 

 ad sexaginta pedum clatus, rectus, sex ad decern pollices crassus, annulis c frondium delapsarum cicatricibus 

 ortis bipollicari circitcr distantia lcvitor impressis notatus, cpidermide uigro - fusca longitudinalitcr rhntilosa 

 atque tandem exarida dccorticantc, ligno versus periphcriom durissimo, colore parenchymals subcarneo- 

 fusco, fibrarum fusco. 



FliOXDES junioribus caudicibus ancle a medio versus summitatcm altcrnatim inhacrcntcs, in adult is omnefr 

 terminates, in arcuin leviter flcxae, patcntcs, novem ad decern pedes longac. Petioli sessiles basi triangular! 

 in margine ob rudimenta vaginae pctiolaris scrntto - ciliata atque operu fibrose circumvoluta , a n t i c e infra 

 pirmaa auperne concavi, concavitatc sursum in planum vergente, subtus convcxi. ltachis subtus secundum 

 totam longitudinem convexa atque junior tomento pulverulento grisco adspersa, supra postice trigona, facic- 

 bus latcralibus foliiforifl planis, media prosiliente ct sulcata, antiee bifacialis, facicbus sub nngnlo acuto con- 

 venientibus, glabriuseula, olivaceo - viridis. Pinnae distantia pollicari oppositae vol subop]>ositac aut in grc- 

 ges polypbyllos minus distinctos dispositae, scsquipcdalcs et bipcdalcs, medio polliccm latae, oblique adnatac 

 indeque vaJde rcduplicntae, lincares ct longissime acuminatnc, glaberrinmc, obscure Trades, ncrvo medio su- 

 pcrne valde prominent© pallide flavesecnte ct latcralibus utrinque subquaternis percursae. 



SPADIX sesquipedalis ct longior, primum. dam in Bpatha adhuc includitur, crectus, dein patens- Pe- 

 duncul us spitliamam longus, compressus, pollicis crassitic, glaber, pallide viridis, versus ramos bracteis 

 nonnullis triangularibus membrnnaeeis, tandem coriacms adspersus. Ha c his valdc scrobiculata atque dense 

 obsita minis pedalibus e basi intumida ovata compresso - teretibns, distantia duonini pollicum nudis, sursum 

 dense florigcris atque inter flores plus minus flexuosis angulosisquc, glabris. Brae tea e similes ad singuli rami 

 basin- St* ATI! A primum clavata, dcin apcrta cymbiformis, acumine duoruin pollicum acuto, cxtus sulcis pro- 

 fundis longitudinalibus aliisque levioribus ternis quatcrnisve inter majures inseulpta, sordide virens vel tandem 

 c pallido Havcsccns, intus aperiundo testacea, postca caslimea, glabra, 



FLOltES MASCULI in ramorum dentibus valdc prominontibus sessilcs, corumque margino cxtcriorc clevato 

 lanquam bractca circumdati , racemos subtctragonos constituentes. Calyx trigonus, constans f ol i o 1 i s tribus 

 c lato - ovato et subcordato acutis, dorso medio nonnibil carinatis, carina in acumen procurrentc, basi ita 

 connatis, ut calycem inoiiopliyUum simulenh Pctala calycc sextuplo longiora, oblonga vol obovato - oblonga, 

 dorso, praescrtim versus apiccm, convexa, obtusiuscula, crassa, caruosa, cxtus laevigata, intus lineis nonnul- 

 lis a pressione staminum sulcata, oebroleuca, sub antbesi parum patentia. STAMINA in thalamo carnoso paulo 

 clevato subtrigono, iuclusa. Filament a tcrctia, antheris scxtuplo breviora, alba* Antberac lincares, utriinpic 

 obtusac et einarginatac, connective latiusculo omiu longitudine adnatac, ocbroleucae. Pollen minutissimum, 

 ellipticum, cicntrisatum. JiVDlMESTlSt PISTIUA minutuni, trigonnm, apicc trilidum, stigmatibus linearibns, 

 sub]>atentibus. 



FLOltES FQEMINEI in inferiorc ramorum i>arte sparsi, ovato -globosi. ALT CIS foliola ovato -subrotunda, 

 obtusiosoula, valdc COUCava atque corollam omnino involventia, pallide albo - virentia. Pctala ealyci similia, ast 

 tcneriora- Ovarium subglobosum, glabrum, virens, transverse sechim duo monstrans loculamenta exovulata et 

 tertium fertile, sursum quasi c eollo in stigmata tria abiciis subulato - triquctra, primum erecto - conniventia, 

 dcin patentia, DlWPAE ovato - cllipticac vel cllipticae, quindechn ad octodeeim linens longac, innboDO a stigmatum 

 residuis brcvi coronatac, flavesccntes, in racemuui magnnm spcctabilem confertae, corticc fibrose exsucce, putaminc 

 laevigato nigricantc duro, poris in basi nutritiis latiusculis, quorum duo lamina tcnui clausi sunt, in apicc cicatrice 

 triloba insignito. Nucleus congenenun. 



Ptdcherrima species, st/lvantm dectts, hi ncmoribiis primaeds Provinciae liuhlensis, praesertim baud proctd <tb Occtmo 

 proven!/* nobis propter jlumen /Wua;/ua^u } ad Engenho da J^onte, juxta villain de Caxocira, ad Camamu et ad lllo das Con' 

 las ohscrvatU) mettsiljus Xorembri et l)eccmbn f dam jhres fruetusque habvbat 



