424 CLXIIL. PALMEM. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 
15. NIPA, Wurmb. 
A prostrate æstuarial gregarious palm; stem (or rootstock) branched. 
Leaves pinnatisect; leaflets lanceolate, plicate. Spathes many, sheathing. 
Spadia terminal, branched, erect, fruiting drooping; flowers moncecious, 
male in catkin-like lateral branches of the spadix, female in à globose 
terminal head, perianth glumaceous. Male fl. minute mixed with seta- 
ceous bracteoles; sepals linear, with broad truncate inflexed tips, imbricate; 
petals smaller; stamens 3, filaments cuneate, anthers linear basifixed ; 
pistillode 0. Fem. fl. much larger; sepals 6, rudimentary, displaced; 
staminodes 0; carpels 3, tips free, each with an oblique stigmatic line; 
ovules 3, erect. Fruit large globose, syncarp of many obovoid hexagona: 
l-celled l-seeded carpels, with pyramidal tips and infra-apical Mei 
pericarp fleshy and fibrous, endocarp spongy and flowery. Seed erect, 
grooved on one side, testa coriaceous viscid within, and adherent to 
be endocarp, hilum broad; albumen equable, hollow; embryo basilar, 
obconic. 
1. N. fruticans, Wurmb. in Verh. Bat. Genootsch. i. 949; ex Blume 
Rumph. ii. 72; iii. 164, 165; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 305, t. 208 ; Lam. 
Illustr. t. 897; Labill. in Mem. Mus. Par. v. t. 21, 22; Gaud. Voy. Bonan 
t. 67 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 110, 589; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 150; Griff. Nom 
ni. 168; lc. Pl. Asiat. 944; Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 650; Thw. Enum. 925 
Kurz. For, Fl. ii. 541. 
From the SUNDERBUNDS, southwards to the MALAY PENINSULA. CEYLON.— 
DISTRIB. Malay Archip. and Australia. D us 
Trunk or rootstock very stout. Leaves 15-30 ft. ; leaflets 4—5 ft., rigid, Sette 
beneath; petiole 4-5 ft., very stout. Spadis 4-7 ft.; peduncle 3-4 ft. t as 
large as a man’s head; carpels 4-6 in. long, smooth, brown,—Not recorde 
existing in either coast of the Deccan Peninsula. 
16. PHOENIX, Linn. 
Low or tall dicecious palms. Leaves pinnate; leaflets lanceolate t 
ensiform, sides induplicate. Spadices usually several, interfoliar, ere? - 
drooping in fruit, branched; spathe basilar, complete, coriaceous : reg 
small, yellowish, coriaceous. Male fi., calyx cupular 8-toothed ; petad ; 
obliquely ovate, valvate; stamens 6 (3-9), filaments subalate, ano tho 
erect, dorsifixed ; pistillode minute or 0. Fem. fl. globose, calyx 0 hed 
male, accrescent; petals rounded, imbricate; staininodes 6, or à 6-toot Wi 
cup; carpels 3, free, stigmas sessile, uncinate; ovules erect. Le 
oblong, terete, l-seeded, stigma terminal, pericarp fleshy, endocarp me 
branous. Seed oblong, ventrally grooved; albumen equable or f 
rumiuate, embryo dorsal or subbasilar.—Species 10 or 11, African " 
Asiatic. 
entatir* 
ted as 
MN and 
The following attempt at diagnosing the Indian species of Phenix is t 
and awaits much further knowledge of the living plants before it can be acc 
t twor e T > ate , i od i Sin 
hut " or wy, The trme Date, P. dactylifera, has been introduced into 
* Embryo ventral. 
T Stem tall, (or short in P. zeylanica). 
