262 Mr. LAMBERT’s Account of 
This curious structure of the fruit confirms the close affinity 
before suspected by Jussieu to exist between Phelipea and the 
Aiginetia of Linneus* and Roxburgh 4, the capsule of which is 
described by the latter as having a number of convoluted lamine 
throughout, between which are lodged innumerable most minute seeds, 
and may possibly be nearly of the same construction as in 
` Phelipæa, although the entire sheathing calyx and regular co- 
rolla in Avginetia are abundantly sufficient to distinguish the 
two genera. 
— men 
In addition to the foregoing account of Pallas’s Herbarium, I 
now beg leave to mention that I have since discovered in it fine 
specimens in fructification from that celebrated Palm growing in 
the garden at Berlin, which Linnzus calls Phenix dactylifera, 
the Date Palm, in his Dissertation on the Sexes of Plants. See 
Dr. Smith’s translation of that work, page 51. Our President 
also mentions it in his Introduction to Botany, page 321, saying 
in a note, “ What species of Palm was the subject of this experi- 
ment does not clearly appear. In the original communication to 
Dr. Watson printed in the Preface to Lee's Introduction to 
Botany, it is called Palma major foliis flabelliformibus. Ait. Hort. 
Kew. vol.3. 473. Yet Linnzeus, in his dissertation on the subject, 
expressly calls it Phenix dactylifera, the Date Palm, and says he 
had in his garden many vigorous plants raised from a portion of 
the seeds above mentioned. The great success of the experiment, 
and the ‘fan-shaped’ leaves, make me rather take it for the 
Rhapis, a plant not well known to Linn&us.” Now it appears 
* Sp. Pl. ed. 1. p. 632. 
+ Plants of the Coast of Coromandel, i. p. 63, tab. 91. 
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