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Sagus. - -MONOECIA HEXANDRIA, 623 
the lower and inner angles of the cell. Style none. Stigma, 
a two or three-lobed, conical, brown point. Pericarp, a 
dry, ovate oblong berry, about the size of a nutmeg, two, 
rarely three-celled, ‘three seems the natural number, though 
two is most common, Seeds solitary, ovate-oblong, about the 
size of a large coffee bean, Inteyuments single, thin, brown, 
veined, adhering firmly to the perisperm, Perisperm horny, 
of one uniform pale colour. Embryo in the back of the seed. 
- The name which Dr. Roxburgh has given to this genus is 
in honour of William Wright, M. D. F. R. S. and President 
of the College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The plant for-— 
merly named after this eminent Physician and Botanist, being 
found to be a species of Blakea. 
SAGUS. Gert. 
Spathes many. Spadix (terminal) super-decompound. 
Male> calyx three-toothed. Corol three-parted. Stamina, 
inserted on the base of the corol. Female calyx and corol 
as in the male. Stamina abortive. Style three-parted. Berry 
backwardly imbricated with prin es scales. cone soli- 
tary. Embryo lateral. : 
1, S. inermis. R. 
Arboreous, unarmed. Embryo lodged in or near pire ne! 
of the seed. Leaves pinnate. 
S. levis. Rumph. Amb. i. p. 76. 
A native of Sumatra and Borneo, and of the Islands between 
them; growing spontaneously in low swampy lands. From 
the pith of the tree the granulated Sago which we meet with 
in Europe is made. The Malays themselves prefer the Sago” 
meal of Sagus spinosus, ( Lapia-tuni, or genuine Sago tree of 
or sag Herbar, Amb, i. p. 75. ew | 
a Ss. Rumphii. Willd. iv, 404, 
_Arboreous, armed, with strong straight spines. Leaves 
pinnate. 
