Cocos.) CLXIIL PALMEÆ®. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 483 
614; Thw. Enum. 330: Brand. For. Fl. 556; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 540; Blume 
Rumph. iii. 82; Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 64; Hook. Journ. Bot. ii. (1850), t. 1. 
C. nana, Griff. Notul. ii, 166.—Rheede Hort. Mal. i. t. 1-4. 
Cultivated in the hot damp regions of India, Burma, and Ceylon, especially 
near the gea (indigenous in the Cocos Isld. and N. Andaman, Kurz).—DiSTRIB. 
All tropical shores. 
Trunk 40-80 ft., flexuous, annulate, base thickened. Leares 12-18 ft.; leaflets 
ft., coriaceous, flaccid ; petiole 3—5 ft. stout. Spadiv 4—6 ft., branches flexuous ; 
lower spathe 2-3 ft., oblong, hard, splitting lengthwise; male fl. small; fem. 1 in. 
long, 2-bracteolate, disk annular. Drupe 4-10 in. long, trigonously obovoid or sub- 
Eise, green or yellowish ; albumen lining the endocarp. C. nana is a small low 
var. grown in the Maldive Islds. and Ceylon. 
ADDENDUM TO PALMS. 
R TEYSMANNTA ALTIFRONS, Reichb. f. & Zoll. in Linnea xxviii. 657 ; Mig. Fl. Ind, 
at. iii. 749. Mr, Ridley (Singapore) informs that this noble Sumatran Palm is 
also a native of the Malay Peninsula. The genus is of doubtful affinity, but most 
Provably belongs to the Tribe Corypheg. It may be recognized by its almost 
stemless habit, and enormous erect elongate-rhomhic plaited leaves. 
Order CLXIV. PANDANEIZE. 
Small dicecious trees or shrubs, often scandent with aerial roots. Leaves 
ere Y trifarious, narrow, acuminate, coriaceous, margins and keel usuall 
p mously toothed. Spadices axillary or terminal, simple or branchec ; 
rt othed with leafy spathes; flowers small, crowded on a catkin-like spadix 
a branches, bracts and bracteoles 0. Perianth 0. Male Jl. stamens 
at’ filaments free or connate; anthers erect, basifixed ; pistillode 0 or 
those em, fl. staminodes O or small ; ovary ]-celled, free or connate with 
and of contiguous flowers; stigmas subsessile, papillose; ovules solitary 
e Suberect, or many and parietal. Fruita globose oblong mass of free 
"onnate 1-20 -celled woody or fleshy angular drupes. Seeds minute, testa 
» albumen hard fleshy ; embryo minute. 
Zi erect or Prostrate. Staminodes in fem. fl. 0. Carpels1l-ovuled. 1. PANDANUS. 
Stem usually elin t: 
y climbing. i d .fl.h nous, Car- 
many-ovuled © 8 taminodes of fem . PUE . « « . 2. FREYXCINETIA, 
1l. PANDANUS, Linn. f. 
ang tatacters as above.—Species numerous, all tropical, chiefly Mascarene 
Malayan, 
of ie compelled to be brief with the characters of the Indian species, very few 
à are fully described ; and of the Malayan especially, the available specimens 
Which aprattisfactory. I omit many usually cited references, and some synonyins 
much +) Pe? to me to be doubtful, and am by no means confident as to the value of 
that remains, , 
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Carpels not united in groups. 
medie - Of free stamens with very short filaments. Drupes with a 
‘dal crown produced into a straight or curved spinescent style. 
ty}! fetidus, Roxb, F7. Ind. iii, 742; shrubby, leaves 46 tt. by 
solitar, » Strongly spinous-toothed, anthers very long slender, fruit sub- 
Y oblong or subglobose, crown of drupes smooth or nearly 80. Kunth 
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