Wrightea, MONOECIA HEXANDRIA, 621 
none, Stigmaa large scabrous gland. Drupe ovate, smooth, 
when ripe orange red ; pulp in a small quantity, and replete 
with fibres. Seed ovate, with a clear horny texture, scarcely 
ruminate, with the embryo lodged in the base. 
BENTINCKIA. Berry's MSS. 
Spathe universal, one-valved, Spadix ramous. Male 
calyx three-toothed, Corol three-petalled. Female calyx and 
corolla as in the male. Nectary six-leaved, (abortive fila- 
ments.) Germ superior, three-celled, one cell fertile, and one’ 
seeded ; attachment interior. Berry spherical, succulent, 
one-seeded, Lmbryo lodged in the base of the perisperm. 
B. Condapanna., B. 
Tam. Conda-pana, 2 Oe 
An elegant, very slender palm, of about twenty feet in 
height with pinnate leaves, as in the coconut tree, and large 
decompound, lateral spadices below the leaves. Dr. Berry 
found it on the mountains of Travancore and observed only 
male, or male hermaphrodite flowers in some, and female 
ones only on others. Flowers in June, and the seed einen 
in about eight or nine months afterwards, sit rptza 
| WRIGHTEA. R. 7 
» Spathe many-leaved. Spadix ramous. Male perianth 
proper one-leaved, entire. Corol one-petalled, wifid. Fe- 
male calyx double, the exterior one two-leaved, the interior 
one three-parted, Corol one-petalled, trifid. Germ from two 
to three-celled; ced/s one-seeded; attachmemi inferior. a 
= from o one to three senda. Embryo dorsal, peed 2602 
‘aki w. snienddens R. 
-Chilputta, or Bel putta, it is called at Chittagamns vais 
plant is found indigenous, blossoming in. Joly... ‘The seed 
ripens during the cold season. 
