174 HEXA.NDRIA MONOGYNIA. Conjplia. 



CORYPHA. Schreh. gen. n. 1694. 



Spathes many Spadix (terminal) supra-decompound. 

 Preianth three-toothed. CoroZ three petalled. Germ su- 

 perior, three-celled ; cells one-seeded ; attachment inferior. 

 Berries from one to three, conjoined, globose, one-seeded. 

 Embryo in, or near the apex of the perisperm. Gaertner 

 says he found it in the base of the perisperm in umbracu- 

 lifera. 



1. C. Talliera. R. 



Leaves subrotund, palmate-pinnatifid, plaited ; seg~ 

 merits forty pair, margins of the channel of the petioles 

 armed. Lijlorescence pyramidal, the length of the trunk 

 of the tree. 



Sans. Tali. 



Beng, Tara, Tallier. Tareet. 



This elegant, stately Palm, is a native of Bengal, 

 though scarce in the vicinity of Calcutta. Flowering 

 time the beginning of the hot season. The seeds ripen 

 about nine, or ten months afterwards. 



Trunk perfectly straight, about thirty feet high, and as 

 near as the eye can judge equally thick throughout, of a 

 dark brown colour, and somewhat rough with the marks 

 left by the impression of the fallen leaves. Leaves pal- 

 mate-pinnatifid, plaited, subrotund. Leaflets or divisions 

 of the frond united rather more than half way, numer- 

 ous, generally about eighty, or forty pairs, linear-lan- 

 ceolate, pointed until broken by the wind, or otherwise, 

 polished on both sides, with a strong somewhat four-sided 

 rib running their whole length ; generally about six feet 

 long, greatest breadth about four inches. The thread which 

 forms part of the Linnman specific character of corypha 

 umbraculifera is sometimes present, sometimes wanting, 

 at best such perishable marks deserve no notice. Petioles 

 from five to ten feet long, remarkably strong, upper side 



