650 MONOECiA MONAULLPHiA. Pinm. 



carefully looked for, the third broad oval, and obtuse, three- 

 celled, as in the germ. 



3. B. aptera. R. 



Shrubby, sub-parasitic. Leaves semi-cordate, 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- 

 c/wnc/es axillary, solitary, bifid, each division three-flowered ; 

 the middle one larger, sessile, and male ; the other two f^hort- 

 pedicelled, and female. Cahjx none. Coro/, stamina, ^*c. 

 as in the genus ; only the capsules are destitute of wings. 



MONOECIA MONADELPHIA. 



NIPA. Schreb. gen. N. 1696. 

 Male spatlie ; corol six-petalled. Anthers six pair round 

 the apex of a single filament. Female spat/ie; corol none, 

 Fruit compound. Nuts or drupes angular, one-seeded. 



N. fruticans. Willd. iv. 597. Thunh, Act. 1782. p, 231. 

 Nypa. Rumph. Amh. i. t. 16. 

 Beng. Goolga Gucina, or Gubna. 

 Cocos nypa. Lourier. Cochin Ch. 694. 

 Grows on the lower parts of the Delta of the Ganges, and 

 in salt swamps. 



PINUS. Schreb. gen. N. 1456. 



Male flowers in clusters. Calyx of several scales, or of 

 four leaves, (Linn. J Corol none. Stamina m<iny . Female 

 calyx, scales of the strobiles two-flowered. Corol none. 

 Pistil one. Seed membrane-winjred. 



