PALMALS. 40 
Petioles spiny; leaflets linear-lanceolate, acuminate, green benea 
drupes ovate, collected in huge erect heads, deep orange-yellow. 
Habitat. Coast of Guinea ; common now in tropical America. 
Quality. Drupes contain an emollient demulcent fixed oil in great abundance. 
Uses. Furnishes Palm oil, employed in soap making, for frictions, &e, ; also eaten 
butter when quite fresh. 
THE NARCISSAL ALLIANCE (V. K., p. 146.) 
Natural Orvers of Parcissals. 
Bromeliats (Bromeliacee.) Flowers 3-petaloideous. 
Amaryllis (Amaryllidacew.) Flowers hexapetaloideous. Stamens 
6, introrse. 
Eri¥s (Lridacee,) Flowers hexapetaloideous. Stamens 3, extrorse. 
Natural Order, Sramelias ; Bromeliacece (V. K., p. 147.) 
' Prevailing Quality. Uncertain. 
Awanassa. Lindley. 
Fruit succulent, in spikes, consolidated into a single tuberculated co 
mass, 3 
Fig. 73.—Sketch of Elis guineensis, 
