650 MONOECIA MONADELPHIA, . Pinus, 
carefully looked for, the third broad oval, and obtuse, three- 
celled, as in the germ. 
3. B. aptera. R. 
Shrubby, sub-parasitic. Leaves somhamdate, entire, 
smooth, Capsules wingless. 
Found by Colonel Hardwicke on the Island of Mauritius 
He says it is a large spreading shrub. 
Stem rather slender, and mostly growing out of decaying, 
or rotten trunks of fallen trees, in wet shaded woods. Pe- 
duneles axillary, solitary, bifid, each division three-flowered ; 
the middle one larger, sessile, and male ; the other two short- 
pedicelled, and female. Calyx none. Corol, stamina, §¢. 
as in the genus; only the capsules are destitute of wings. 
MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 
NIPA. Schreb. gen. N. 1696. 
Male spathe ; corol six-petalled. Anthers six pair round 
the apex ofa single filament, Female spaihe; corol none. 
Fruit compound. Nuts or drupes angular, one-seeded. 
N. fruticans, Willd. iv. 597. Thunb. Act. 1782. p. 231. 
Nypa. Rumph, Amb. i. t. 16. 
~ Beng. Goolga Gucina, or Gubna. 
Cocos nypa, Lourier. Cochin Ch, 694. : 
Grows on the lower parts of the Delta of the —e ae 
“in salt swamps, 
PINUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1456. 
- Male flowers in clusters. Calyx of several scales, or of 
four leaves, ( Linn.) Corolnone. Stamina many. Female 
calyx, scales of the strobiles two-flowered. Corel none. . 
Pistil one, Seed ee ; . 
