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Leaves with short bases: spadices protruding from the 
n of leaves: drupe orange-searlet or green 
Stamens a drupe Re with the style, 
or stigmas, terminal: see ow. 1. Cocos. 
rini ns precor : drup e lobular or 2- or 3-lobed, 
with the style, or € igmas, nearly basal: seed 
soli 2. PSEUDOPHOENIX. 
olid. 
Leaves with long sheathing bases clothing the upper 
art of the trunk: spadices borne on the trunk far 
v the crown of leaves: drupe violet-purple. 3. ROYSTONEA. 
Carpels 3, distinet: seed long and narrow, grooved on one 
side: leaf-segments induplicate. 4. PHOENIX. 
PINNATIPALMATAE 
Plants with subterranean or erect stems: leaf-blades fan- 
like, but with the midrib running up into the blade. 5. SABAL. 
IIT. PAL 
Leaves with unarmed sheaths : flowers perfect: cer val- 
vate: style present: drupe glabro 
Calyx and corolla united into a 6- lobed or truncate peri- 
Drupe with white flesh: endosperm even: spadix 
fruit. 
elongate in flower and 6. THRINAX. 
saad hie dark hung endosperm ruminate : spadix 
permanently very shor 7. COCCOTHRINAX. 
Calyx nd pues distinct and manifestly in 2 series. 
n s elongate: seed elongate. 8. SERENOA. 
Anthers didymous : seed depres 9. PAUROTIS. 
Leaves with armed sheaths: flowers polygamo- ii 
petals imbricate; styles wanting: drupe pubesc 10. RHAPIDOPHYLLUM. 
1. COCOS L. Unarmed trees, except for some long needle-like structures 
mostly hidden in the leaf-sheath. Leaves spreading in all directions: blades 
pinnate. Spadix ultimately drooping, relatively short. Sepals and petals of 
the staminate flowers valvate, those of the pistillate flowers imbricate, much 
enlarged and persistent on the fruit. Drupe 3-angled, with a fibrous pericarp 
and a hard endocarp, the poA with 
a large cavity which contains a fluid.— 
single species, the following, now widely 
distributed in tropical regions. 
1. C. nucifera L. Stately tree up to 30 
tall, the pun often with a inu 
swollen inclined or Jec Ben e: leaf- 
blades 3-7 m. lo e qn bend ; 
ng: perian nth of 2 
"S 
5-10 dm. lon ate 
flower fully 1 em. long, that r p pes 
larger: drupe 5d or ovoid, 2-3 dm. long, 
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a water h later pada ilky.— 
(COCONUT. COCO-PALM.) res un shore hammocks, pen. 2 and i Keys. 
of the Malayan or Indo- Paci e region.—( W. I., Mex., C. A., S. 0. W. 
p.) —The coconut-palm pro duces adds divis a frequent 3 pn nue flow- 
ers End several generations of fruits are bor e time. Approxi- 
mately nine Sa are pape ed to matur a Ma D du ave "been native 
on the Fla. Keys, but most of x quent un were planted or are 
the ee, Of planted tre Now grown Occ in Fla., “but o only 
to supply the demand for lore IRI purpose 
