744 DIOECIA MONANDRIA. ClJCas. 



4. V.farcalns. R. 



Drupes of the oblong compound fruit cuneate, crowned 

 Avith an incurved, polished, sharp, forked spine, nuts one- 

 celled. 



Kaida Tsjerria. Rheed. Mai. ii. t. 8. 



A native of Pegu, Chittagong, Malabar, &c. 



5. P. inermis, R. 



Diflfuse. Leaves ensiform, channelled, unarmed, and po- 

 lished. 



From Araboyna this pretty small species has been intro- 

 duced into the Botanic garden, where it grows luxuriantly, 

 spreading and leaning over a surface of f^overal feet, and 

 sending forth the usual fusiform roots which enter the soil, 

 as in the other species. The leaves are from two to three 

 feet long, highly polished, and in all our young plants with- 

 out the smallest sign of a prickle, apices long and slender, 

 triangularly subulate. 



CYC AS. 



Male anient strobile-shaped ; scales thereof covered on 

 the under side with distinct, sessile, one-celled, two-valved 

 anthers. Female spadix with a few solitary, bifarious, al- 

 ternate, sessile, naked, one-celled germs on the margins, with 

 a single oviduni, attached to the bottom of the cell. Styles 

 single. Dnipe with a woody, one-celled nut. Embryo in- 

 verse, and amply furnished with perisperm and vitellus. 



I.e. circhialis. Willd. iv. 844. 



Leaves pinnate, with long armed petioles. Leaflets from 

 fifty to sixty pair, sub-alternate, rather remote, flat, linear- 

 lanceolate, sickle-shaped. 



C. inermis. Lour. Cochin Cli. 77G. 



Olus Clappoides. Rumph, Ami. i. t. 22. the female, and 

 t, 23. the male. 



