Phoenix. DIOECIA HEXANDRIA, 783 
called a lower or exterior calyx, Coro/three-parted, with the 
_ base fleshy, and partly impervious. Filaments six, thick at the 
base, and inserted on the mouth of the fleshy impervious 
tube of the corol. Anthers linear, incumbent. Pistillum, 
a small, three-toothed, abortive, style-like athe is all that is 
to be found, 
16. C. monoicus, . 
Monoicous, scandent. Leaflets numerous, alternate, linear. 
lanceolate, polished, and bristly ; sheaths flagelliferous; sta- 
mens monadelphous. : 
Native place uncertain. It grows in the Botanic garden | 
to be about the size of the common ratan, and differs from it — 
only in being monoicous, the divisions of the corol lanceolate, 
and in the filaments being very completely united. Flower- . 
ing time the rainy season. 
It is needless to give a full description of this plant, which 
is exactly like C. Rotang, except in the above-mentioned 
circumstances, The male flowers are about as numerous as 
the female ones, generally one of each from each of the an- 
nular scales of the branches of the spadix. The common 
ratan (C. Rotang) I have always found completely dioecous; 
this must therefore be considered a distinct species, 
PH@NIX. Schreb. gen. N. 1694. 
Marr. Calyx three-toothed, Corol three-petalled. Fr- 
MALE, Calyx and corol as in the male. Germs three, one- 
celled, one-seeded ; attachment interior, Drupe oblong, point- 
ed, one-seeded. Embryo in the back or convex side of the 
1. P. acaulis, Buch. 
_Stemless. Leaves radical, pinnate ; leaflets folded, cneihialy 
in sub-opposite fascicles pointing poet was the lower 
spinous, | 
