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none. Stignia a large scabrous gland. Drupe ovate, smooth, 

 Aviien ripe orange retl ; pulp in a small quantity, and replete 

 with fibres. Seed ovate, with a clear horny texture, scarcely 

 ruminate, with the embryo lodged in the base. 



BENTINCKIA. Berry's MSS. 

 Spathe imiversal, one-valved. Spadix ramous. Mate 

 calyx three-toothed. Coro/ three-petalled. Female calyx nnd 

 corolla as in the male. Nectary six-leaved, (abortive Jila- 

 inents.) Germ superior, three-celled, one cell fertile, and one 

 seeded ; attachment interior. Berry spherical, succulent, 

 one-seeded. Embryo lodged in the base of the perisperm. 



B. Condapanna. B. 



Tam. Conda-pana. 



An elegant, very slender palm, of about twenty feet in 

 height with pinnate leaves, as in the coconut tree, and large 

 decoujpound, lateral spadices below the leaves. Dr. Berry 

 found it on the mountains of Travancore and observed only 

 male, or male hermaphrodite flowers in some, and female 

 ones only on others. Flowers in June, and the seed ripens 

 in about eiffht or nine months afterwards. 



JVRIGHTEA. R. 



Spathe many-leaved. Spadix ramous. Male perianth 

 ynoyjer one-leaved, entire. Coro/ one-petalled, trifid. Fe- 

 male calyx double, the exterior one two-leaved, the interior 

 one three-parted. Corol one-petalled, trificl. Germ from two 

 to three-celled; ce//s one-seeded; attachnieint inferior. Berry 

 with from one to three seeds. Embryo dorsal. 



1 . W. caryotoides. R, 



Chilp?<tta, or BeIpMtta,it is called at Chittagong, where the 

 plant is found indigenous, blossoming in July. The seed 

 ripens during the cold season. 



