OF THE GENUS NIPADITES. 151 
Cocos sp., Parkinson, Org. Rem. et t. vi. figs. 5-7, t. vii. figs. 1-5. 
Cocos Parkinsonis, Brongn. Prodr. p. 121. 
Cocites Parkinsonis, Bronn, Leth. Geogn. p. 861. 
N. turgidus, Bowerb. partim, Foss. Fr. Lond. Clay, p. 21, t. v. f. 23 
Unger, Gen. et Sp. p. 329. 
N. Bowerbankii, Hétingsh. partim, in Abh. Geol. Reichsanst. (1852) 1. 
Abth. 3, no. 1, p. 9, et in Sitzungsb. Ak. Wiss. Wien, 1. c. 
N. Parkinsoni, Schimper, Traité Pal. Vég. p. 480. 
Nipa Parkinsonis, Ettingsh. in Proc. Roy. Soc. xxix. (1879) p. 393. 
Drupa quam precedens multo minor, late obovata, subita 
acuminata, basi truncata ; haud compressa ; angulis 4-6, seepius 4 
“ere equidistantibus ; pericarpio, apice crasso solido, basi multo 
tenuiore vix unilinea ; epicarpio levi tenue ; mesocarpio cum fibris 
longitudinalibus sub epicarpio tenuibus et arcte confertis, tum 
crassioribus et sejunctis, fibrillis transversis intertextis; endo- 
carpio duro. 
A distinct species, of comparatively uniform size; the most 
perfect specimen measured 34 inches in length, 23 inches in 
breadth, and 53 inches in thickness, and the smallest 23 inches, 
2 inches, and 1} inch respectively. The strong longitudinal 
fibres of the mesocarp are characteristic; they are 3-13 line 
apart, the intervals being filled with closely-packed transverse 
fibrils. 
The cast of the interior is large, from 14-2 inches long, slightly 
broader, and from 1-1} inch thick, very broadly obovate, with a 
more or less acuminate apex and 4—5 more or less flattened sides 
with rounded angles. A fragment of a drupe not quite ripe 
(fig. C), in which the structure of the interior of the pericarp is 
preserved, shows the hard endocarp with the fibres passing from 
its outer surface, as obtains in Mipa fruticans. 
Localities. Sheppey ; Schaerbeek, Woluwe. 
The specimen figured by Burtin, Oryct. Brus. fig. C, may be an 
internal cast of the fruit of this species. 
NIpaDITES LANCEOLATUS, Bower. 1. c. p. 16, t. iil. fig. 7; Unger, 
Gen. et Sp. p. 328; Lyell,in Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe. vil. (1852) 
p. 346, t. 19. figs. 8 & 4. (PI. VIT. fig. A.) 
N. crassus, Bowerb. l. c. p. 12,t. ii. figs. 4 & 5; Unger, lc. p. 328. 
N. Bowerbankii, H¢tingsh. partim, 1. c. 
N. Burtini, Schimper, partim, /. c. p. 479. 
N. Parkinsoni, Schimp. partim, /. c. p. 480. 
Nipa lanceolata, Ettingsh. in Proc. Roy. Soc. xxix. p. 393. 
N. Burtini, Ettingsh. partim, ibid. 
