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DESCRIPTION OF INDIVIDUAL SPECIES. 
In the order of the following descriptions, Drude's arrangement, as given in Engler 
and Prantl’s ‘ Pflanzenfamilien, has been adopted. 
I. CORYPHINE. 
(1) PHEŒNIX RECLINATA, Jacq. 
The limiting-layer is composed of slightly lignified cells, almost isodiametrie as seen in 
transverse section, but about twice as long in longitudinal section. The walls, except the 
inner tangential, are considerably thickened, and the outer extremities project slightly 
as small papillae. Succeeding these is a layer, some fourteen elements in depth, made 
up of elongated cells more or less fibrous in appearance, but generally with squared ends. 
These cells are slightly lignified, while here and there occurs an element much more 
strongly so. Then follows a zone, six elements in depth, of elongate lignified fibres with 
simple pits. | : 
The internal cortex is composed of parenchymatous cells with large radially extending 
