628 MONOECIA POLYANDRIA. Saquerus, 
the female flowers, in which case they are small, with less 
fertile anthers, and placed one on each side of a female flow- 
er. Calyx three-leaved; leaflets roundish, fleshy, concave, 
with their margins thin and imbricated, Corol of the large 
or proper male flowers, three-petalled. Petals sub-linear, 
‘smooth, expanding, ofa firm leathery substance, concave and 
yellow on the inside, and of a deep purple on the outside ; 
margins thick and meeting only. Stamens numerous, the 
length of the petals. Filaments short, inserted into a fleshy 
receptacle in the centre of the flower. Anthers linear. FE- 
MALE FLOWERS sometimes in the same spadix, with the male, 
and then just half as numerous as the male, but in general 
they occupy separate spadices above those of the perfect . 
male, or have the less perfect male flowers which accompany 
them, very small, probably abortive. Calya five-leaved, 
leaflets short, unequal, imbricated, scarcely a third of the 
length of the corol. Corol three-petalled, the petals cordate, 
and much shorter than in the male. Stamens, rather necta- 
rial filaments, sometimes there are three, very small round 
the base of the germ, as in Caryota wrens, sometimes they are. 
entirely wanting. Germ superior, three-lobed, smooth. Style 
none, Stigmas three, conical and three-sided. Berry as large 
as a crab apple, three-lobed, three-celled, smooth, fleshy, 
when ripe yellow, pulp very acrid. Seeds one in each cell, 
oblong, somewhat three-sided, affixed by the lower pointed 
end to a central receptacle, covered with a bard, black, toler- 
ably smooth, thin shell. The embryo of the future plant is 
lodged about ane oe of the interior convex sa the ars 
perm. — 
The tree is siarls allied to Caryota. The chief différence 
is in the pericarpium, which is in this a three-seeded berry, 
in that one or two-seeded only, With respect to the various 
and important uses of this most elegant palm I have nothing 
to offer myself, but refer to what Rumpbius and Marsden 
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