482 CLXII PALMEZ. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [ Borassue. 
fan-shaped, plicately multifid; petiole spinous, ligule short. Spadices very 
large, simply branched; peduncle sheathed with open spathes, males T. 
stout cylindrie branches that are densely clothed with closely imbrioes ing 
bracts, enclosing spikelets of flowers which hence appear as if su SC 
cavities of the branch; fem. spadix sparingly branched, bearing tew 
scattered solitary flowers. Male fl. small, mixed with scaly bracts, ge 
in two series in a small spikelet, and protruding one by one from 
cavities of the branch of the spadix, as the rachis of the spikelet elonga vi ; 
perianth glumaceous; sepals 3, narrowly cuneate, tip inflexed icr. 
imbricate; petals shorter than the sepals, obovate-spathulate, im n 
stamens 6, anthers subsessile large oblong ; pistillodes of 3 bristles. F- ies 
f. larger, globose; perianth fleshy greatly accrescent; sepals We peu 
imbricate; petals smaller, convolute ; staminodes 6-9 ; ovary globose, deg 
trigonous, entire or 3-4-partite, 3-4-celled ; stigmas 3, sessile recur éi 
ovules basilar, erect. Fruit a large subglobose drupe with Page 
fibrous pyrenes; pericarp thinly fleshy, stigmas terminal. Seeds M Tw. 
top 3-lobed; testa adherent to the pyrene; albumen equable hollow; 
embryo subapical. 
B. flabellifer, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1187 ; B. flabelliformis, Murr. Syst, BE 
xiii 827; Roxb, Cor. Pl.i.50, t. 71, 72; Fl. Ind. iti. 790; Grif. No "n 
167; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 221, t. 108, 121, 162; Kunt Dem d 
222; Thw. Enum. 329; Brand. For. Fl. 544; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 529; © 
Rumph. ii. 88; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 45. B. dichotomus, White m tics, 
Cat. Bomb. Pl. 226. B. sthiopum, Mart. Lc. 221. Lontanus doris, 
Rumph. Herb. Amb. i. t. 10. Ham. in Mern. Wern. Soc. v. 314; 
F'ruct. i. 21, t. 8.—Hheede Hort. Mal. i. t. 9, 10. d 
Cultivated throughout the plains of Ixpra, Burma and Cxyion.—DIsTas 
Malaya; Afr. trop. . Leaves 
Trunk 60-70 ft., very rarely branching, often swollen above the middle, linear, 
6-10 ft. diam., palmately fan-shaped, rigidly coriaceous; segments 2-4 ft, siou 
2-fid, margins spinulose. Spadiz male and fem. several feet long and very 
Male fi. small ; fem. 1 in. diam. Drupe broadly obovoid, brown, 8 in. diam. 
34. COCOS, Linn. 
v. 
Unarmed, moneecious palms. Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets pearing 
Spadix erect, at length drooping, simply panicled; branches males 
scattered fem. fl., often between 2 males towards their bases ane practs 
above. Spathes 2 or more, lower short, upper fusiform or clavate; val- 
various; perianth coriaceous. Male fl. unsymmetric; sepals sma nthers 
vate; petals oblong, acute, valvate; stamens 6, filaments subulate; pen 
linear, erect; pistillode minute or 0. Fem. fl. usually much larger, volute 
perianth greatly accrescent ; sepals imbricate; petals shorter, convoy i 
with imbricate tips; disk annular or O ; ovary 3-celled, usually i ovoid, 
style short, stigmas recurved; ovules subbasilar.. Fruit largo, endo- 
terete or trigonous, 1-seeded, style terminal; pericarp thick, brow * Sed 
carp bony or stony, with 3 basal pores, the remains of the 3 oe ; 
cohering with the endocarp; albumen solid or hollow, or merely 7) is 
the endocarp with a thick hard coat; embryo opposite one pore 
about 30, all American, one of them cosmopolitan in the tropics. 
"T 193. 
C. nucifera, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1188; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. LS 
t. 62, 75, 88; Kunth ‘Enum. iii, 285; Roxb. Cor. Pl.i. 92, t. 73; Fi. Ind. 
