174 _HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. Corypha. 
CORYPHA. Schreb. gen. n. 1694, 
_ Spathes many Spadix (terminal) supra-decompound. 
Preianth three-toothed. Corol three-petalled. Germ su- 
perior, three-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attachment inferior. 
Berries from one to three, conjoined, globose, one-seeded. 
Embryo in, or near the apex of the perisperm, Geertner 
says he found it in the base of the perisperm it in unbracu- 
lifera. . . 
1. C. Talliera. R. 
Leaves subrotund, palmata:pinnati#d) plaided: ; seg- 
ments forty pair, margins of the channel of the petioles 
armed. Juflorescence pyramidal, the length of the trunk 
of the tree. 
Sans. Tali. 
Beng. Tara, Tallier. Tareet. , 
_ This elegant, stately Palm, is a native of Bengal, 
though scarce in the vicinity of Calcutta. Flowering 
' time the beginning of the hot season. The seeds ripen 
about nine, or ten months afterwards. 
Trunk perfectly straight, about thirty feet high, and as 
near as the eye can judge equally thick throughout, of a 
dark brown colour, and somewhat rough with the marks 
left by the impression of the fallen leaves. Leaves pal- 
mate-pinnatifid, plaited, subrotund. Leaflets or divisions 
of the frond united rather more than half way, numer- 
ous, generally about eighty, or forty pairs, linear-lan- 
_ ceolate, pointed until broken by the wind, or otherwise, 
polished on both sides, with a strong somewhat four-sided 
rib running their whole length; generally about six feet 
long, greatest breadth about four inches. The thread which 
forms part of the Linnean specific character of corypha 
umbraculifera, is sometimes present, sometimes wanting, 
at best such perishable marks deserve no notice, Petioles 
from five to ten feet long, remarkably strong, upper side 
