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FAMILIA QUART A: 



COIIYPHINAE. 



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Pistillum e carpidiis tribus primitus distinctis, demum ant distinctis aut in 

 unuin connatis, omnibus vel nno alterove evolutis; rarissime carpidiiun solitariiim. 

 Ovula solitaria erecta, lateralia aut resupinata. Fructus baccatus, raro tcnniter dru- 

 paceus; triplex, profimdc lobatus, aut abortu duplex vel simplex (pistillis abortienti- 

 bus a formatione evoluti exclusis); rarissime solitarins. Stamina hypogyna aut peri- 

 gyna, sena, rarissime plura (novem ad duodecim). 



Florcs plerumque hermaphroditic vel poli/gavio - dioeci, sessiles, bracteati. 

 Spathae coriaceae, saepc plures incompletae vagae ad basin et divisiones spadi- 

 cis ramosi, raro completae. Caudices aut cocoidei aut arundinacei, inermes. Fron- 

 des plerumque palmato-flabelliformes, raro pinnatae, laciniis pinnisve induplicatis. 

 Flores textura herbacea, membranacei aut tenuiter coriacei, plerumque virescentes. 



Genera in hac familia militantia pleraquc sum flabbllifboxdia , practcr irondinm strnctnram, el spatliis incomplctis vagis et flori- 

 bus 01 plurimom hermnpliroditis disiingucnda: SABAI.INAE dicendae; nnicum contra genus pixxatifboss, liondibus pinnalis, spatha unica 

 eompleta et diclinia a rellflnli differ! : FIIOENICINARUM seriem constituens. 



I. CORYPHA. 



LIN. Hon ClilT. p. 11. Gen. plant, edit. 1764. p. 572. No. 1221. Edit. SCHREB. II. p. 773. No. 1690. Edit. SPRENG. p. 283. No. 1466. 

 Rom. Scbult. Syst. Veg. VII. p. Lxxvm. No. 1493. Juss. Gen. p. 39. NECK. Elem. p. 305. No. 1703. GAERTN. Fruct Sem. I. p. 18. t. 7. 

 f. 1. WURMII. Verh. Batav. Genootscli. I. p. 233. LAM. Encycl. II. p. 130. t. 899. R. BROWN. Flor. Nov. Holl. p. 267. ROXB. 

 Fior. Ind. II. p. 174. — Codda-pansa RHEED. Hort Mai. III. t. 1 — 10. ADAXS. Fam. II. p. 25. — Gbmbanga Blume in Bot. Zeit. 

 1S25. II. p. 580. et 078. — Taliera MART. Programma 1824. p. 10. SPRENG. Gen. plant, p. 251. No. 1307. Rom. Schult. Syst. Vcg. 



VII. p, lxxvih. No. 1492. 



IIERMAPHRODITA. Spathae plures incompletae, vagae. Flobes sessiles aut brevissime pediccllati, bracteati. 

 Calvx cuptilaris, tridentatus. Corolla tripctala, aestivatione valvata. Stamina sex, basi dilatata hypogyna cohaerentia, 

 antheris ovatis. Ovaria tria coJiaercntia. Stvli subulati coalcscentes. Bacca plcruniqite unica maturescens, monosper- 

 ma. Albumen aequabile. Embbvo vcrticalis. 



Pahnae procerac, spectacles. Cavdex cocoideus, annulatus. Fro.\des ampfae, omnes versus apicem caudicis conge- 

 stae, JIaheUiformes, laciniis apicejissis, interdumjiligeris, rent's transrersis, petiolo aculeato. SrADJ.x in speciebus rerosimilUer 

 omnibus monocarpaeis terminalis, amplissimus , decomposite - ra mosus , spatliis pluribus coriaceis ad ramiftcationes tagi- 



Baccae lutescentes aut rirescentes. 



natus. Fcores parndi, membranacei, virentes, in ramulis Jlorigcris passim aggregate 



1. CORYPHA TALIERA. Tab. 127. Fig. 1. 



C* % frondibus orbicular ibus pahnato~pinnaliJidi$, tacmite quadraginta ad quinquaginfa parium; spadice orato-pyra- 



midaK erccto 9 caudicis duas tcrtias longitudine aequante. 



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CORYPUA TALIERA, Roxb. Plants of Coromandel. III. p. 51. t. 255. 236. Roxb. Flor. Ind. If. p. 174. 



TALIERA BE.XGALEXSIS, Sprcng. Syst. Vegct. II. p. IS. — TALIERA TALI, Mart, in Rum. ScluilL Syst. Vcg. VII. 2. 

 p. 1306. No. 1. 



Caudex Iringinta pedalis, acqualiter cyliridricus, in stiperficie obscure fusca cicatrisatns. Frondes amplae, duo- 

 decim pedes et quod excedit longae. Petiolus quinqtie ad decern pedes longus, robustus, snperne profundc canalicu- 

 lus, in margine acuto et aculeis firmis fuscis nitidis nrmatits. Lamina suborbicularis, ultra dimidium secta in lacinias 

 80 — 100, lineari-lanceolatas acuminaias, sexpedalcs, ad summum quatuor pollices latas, ope nervorum commisstiralium 

 quadrangularium conncxas. Venae transversae conspicuae. Spadix unicus ingens c vertice caudicis surgit decomposito- 

 ramosus, circumscriptione ovata, viginti pedes ahus, glaber. R ha cb is vcrticalis, spathis primariis coriaceis cylindricis 



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