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FlORES MASCULI in superiors raccmorum parte; dense conferri, circiter quatuor lincas longi , obovati. 

 CALYX minimus, trifidus, laciniis lato - triangularibus enrinatis, pallidas, eireiter dimidism lineam situs. Petals 

 erassa, sicca subeoriacoa, obovata, acuta, enrinata, incus a prcssione Staminnni sulcata, oclnoleuca. STAMINA 

 petalis fere dimidio breviora. Filaments alba, Bubulata, basi connata. Anthcrae lineares, obtusiusculae, 

 versus basin emarginatam adnata©. Flohes FOEMINEI in inferiorc ramorum parte solitarii, inasculis nonnil.il 

 breviores, pallide virides. GjLTX dnas ct quod excedit lineas situs, constans foliolis duriusculis eoriaceis 

 lato - triangularibus acutiusculis, concavis, cxtus elevato - carinatis, ad margines so aiuplectentibas. Petala lineam 

 et ultra quam calyx longiors, e basi lata ct subauriculata lanccolata, obtusiuscula , dorso crassiore carinata et 

 nervosa, latcribus tenuiora ac laevigata. Ovarium ovatum, in stigmata pyramidato - conniventia abiens, glab- 

 mm, basibus pctalorum arete circumvolutum. DllVI'A exsucca, fibrosa, oblonga vcl obovato - oblonga , glabra, 

 umbonata atque stigmatum rcsiduis brcvibus corouata. Putainen obovatum, crassiusculum, lacvigatuni, pallide fuscum. 

 Nucleus homoidcus congencrum. 



Crescit in campis hcrbidis altitudinc 1400 1800 pedum supra Oceanum retro jtumen 8. Francisci in Pro- 



vincia Minarum, versus confinia Provinciae Goyazantw. Lecla fructifcra prope rivulum das Pedras, ad seplem locus 



(Sete Lagoas) el in adscensu month Serra do Vdo do Parandn dicti, mensc Septembri F/ores commwticavit CI. 

 Aug. do St. Hilaire. 



ICOS. EXP/* Tib. 88. Fig. I. Spadix fructifo cum spatlia. II. Par* rachco* com pinnU. — 1. Drup* iu iiilcguraentis. 2. Polamen rcrticaliler dimc- 

 lum. 8. Nucleus vcrlicalilcr dissccius (m. n.). 



9. COCOS NUCIFERA. Tab. 62. 75. et Tab. 88. Fig. 3 - 6. 



C. caudice proccrrimo flexuoso inacqualitw annulate, basi incrassalo; frondibus putcntibus, pinnis lineari - lanceolatis subcon- 

 cinnis; floribas foemincis subglobosis; drupis mttximis ovato - trigonis. 



Nercgil 



, Aviccnna, Lib. II. Tract. II. c 505. Rhaz. Lib. III. e. 20. Scrap, c. 228. 



Palma, Pigafctta, Voyage autour <Iu momle (1519— 1522.) edit, parts. 1801. (an 9.) p. 65. 

 Scaliger, Exercilationes. 1557. p. 219. bins eh o ten, Navigation 1599. p. 64. c. ic. 



Nux indica, Garc. Hort. iii Clus., aromat. I. cap. 26. edit. 1601. p. 189. c. ic. arboris et 

 (i-uctus. Lobel, Hist, plant. 1605. p. 451. Cord. Hist. Jos. Acosta, Hist. nat. des Indes. 

 1616. p. 177. Mathiol. Lib. I. c 95. c. ic. Tabcrnaem. Lib. III. c. 13. c. ic. (e prior, nmtuat 

 Besl. Mus. p. 19. 1. 5. Grew. Mus. p. 15. 



Palma indica cocci/era angtdosa, C. Bauh. Pill. 1623. p. 508. IMllk. Almag. p. 275. 



Palma indica naeifcra, J. Bauh. Hist. 1650. I. Lib. III. p. 375. c. ic. (mutiiat.). 



Palma s. mix indica vulgo, coccos /evens, Recch. rer. med. nov. Hisp. Thes. 1651. p. 71. c. ic. 

 Hernandez edit. 1790. p. 338. 



Cocoeira indica, Pi so Bras. edit. 1648. p. 63. 



Palma Inaja - guacxt-iba, Marcgr. Bras, edit. 1648. p. 138. Piso Bras. edit. 1658, 

 p. 130. c. ic. 



Tenga, Rhced. Mai. I. p. 1. t. 1 — 4. 



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