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FAMILIA QUART A: 



CORYPHINAE. 







Pistillnm e carpidiis tribus primitus distinctis, demum aut distinctis aut iii 

 iiuiini connatis, omnibus vel uno alterove evolntis; rarissime carpidimn solitarium. 

 Ovula solitaria erecta, lateralia aut resupinata. Fructns baccatus, raro tciuiiter dru- 

 pacens; triplex, profunde lobatus, aut abortu duplex vel simplex (pistillis abortienti- 

 bus a fonuatione evoluti exclusis); rarissime solitarius. Stamina hypogyna aut peri- 

 gyna, sex, rarissime plura (novcm ad duodecim). 



Flores plerumque hermaphroditic vel poli/ga/uo-dioeci , sessile*, bracteatL Spa- 

 time coriuceae, saepe plures incompletae vagae ad basin et dimsiones spadicis 

 ramosiy raro completae. Caudices aut cocoidei aut arundinacei, inermes. Frondes 

 plerumque palmato-jlabelliformes, raro pinnatae, laciniis pinnisve induplicatis. Flo- 

 res textura herbacca, membranacea aut tenuiter coriacea, plerumque virescentes. 



Genera in liar familiu mililnnlia plcraquc sunt FLABBLLIFRONDIAj praeler fromlium structural)), ct spalliis incomplclis vagis el 

 II or i bus ut plurimum hermaphrodites ilistinguemla: SABALIXAE diceuda; iiniciim contra genus imssatifhons, fromtibus piuuatis > spatlm 

 imica completa el diclinia a reliipiis differ! : PHOEXICIXAItUM seriein constituent 



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UN. Mnaa ClilT. p. 11. Gen. plant, edit 1704. p. 572. No. 1221. Edit. SCORES. 11. p. 773. No. 1000. Edit. NPKEXG. p. 2S3. No. 1466. 

 Kiini. Scluilt. Sjst Veg. VII. p. iaxviii. No. 1403. Juss. Gen. p. 30. NECK. Elem. p. 305. No. 1703. GAEHTX. Fnicl. Scm. I. p. IS- 1. 7. 

 f. I. WURMB. Virli. Qatar. Genootech. L p. 253. LAM. Encycl. lL p. 130. t. S0O. It. HROWX. Flor. Xov. llnll. ,,. 2G7. RO.VJB. Flor. 

 Ind. II. p. 174. KM>I« Gen. No. 1753. HUME Humph. II. p. 57. — ConiH-PASSA RIIEE1). Uort. Mai. III. t. 1 — 10. ADANK. Fam. II. 

 p. 25. — Gumdanoa BL0ME in Hot Zcit 1S25. IL p. 5S0. et 67S. — Taukba HART. Frogramma 1S24. p. 10. SPKEXG. Gen. plant. 



p. 251. No. 1307. ROni. Schult. Sjsl. Vcg. VII. p. lxxviii. No. 1402. 



HF.RMAPIIROD1TA. Spatiiae plures iucomplctae, vagae. Flores sessiles aut brcvissimc pediccllati, bract eati. 

 Calyx cupulai-is aut cyathlformis, tridoutatus. Cobolla tripctala, aestivation© valvala. Stamina sex, basi dilataia ltypo- 

 gyua cobacremia, anthems ovaiis. OvABiA iria cohaerenlia. Srvi.i subtilati coali-sccntes. Dacca plerumque uuica matti- 

 rcsccits, moiiosperma. Alhtmen aequabile coiucimi, sulidum. Embryo vcrlicalis. 



Palmae procerae, specialities. Caeiiex cocoidcus, annulattis. Fiwmhis antplae, omaes versus apicem caudi'cis 

 congestae, Jlatntl (formes, laciniis apice Jissis, iiiterdum Jiligert's , cent's tm/iscersis y pr.liolo aculealo. Sr.nnx in speciebus 

 rvrisimililvr omnibus monocarpaeis teriiiiitalis, aiiiplixsimus, decamposifo-ramosiis , sputhis pluribus coriaceis ad rainijtcalio- 

 nes raginatus. Flores parculi, membrauacei , rircnles, in ramu/is Jforigeris passim aggregatu Baccae lulcscentes aut 

 rirescenles. 





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1. CORYPHA TAUERA. Tah 127. Fig. i. 



C. J'roudihus orbtCtdartbut palmalo-piiiiialijidis, laciniis quadruginta ad (juinquaginla pariu/n; spadicc otalo-pi/ra- 

 midali credo, Candida duos let'ltus hmgitudine aequanle. 



COItYPlIA TAUERA, Roxb. Plants of Coroinand.L III. p. 51. t. 255. 250. Roxb. Flor. lnd. II. p. 174. Hlinnc, Rtmipliia II. p. 5S. 

 TAUIUIA BBSGALBSSIS, Spreng. Syst Vcg. U. p. 18. — TAULltA TAU, Mart, in Horn. Schult S>st. Vc-g. VII. 2. p. 1300. No. I. 



Caudkx tiiiiinlapedalis, aequalilcr eyliiulrirns, in superlieic obsnnc fusca cieatrisalns. FRONDES amplao, duo- 

 decim pedes ct (|tiod excedit longac. Petioltis quiiKjiie ad fleceui pedes lougns, robusttis, suoerne proliindc caiialicn- 

 ladis, in iimrgine acttlo et acnleis lirmis fnscis nitidis arniadis. Lamina stiliorbieularLs, ulna dimidinm secta in lacinias 

 80 — Ifltt, llneari-lanceulatas acuminaias, sexpedales, ad suiumum quatuor pull ices latas, ope oervorum commisstiraliiim 

 quadfinguiaciuQ] connexas. \enae transversae conspicuae. Spadix miieiis ingens e \criice caudicis surgii decomposiio- 

 ramosiis, cirnmiscriptioiic ovala, viginti pedes altus, glaber. Khachis vertically si'atiiis piimariis coriaceis cylindricis 



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