Phoenix. dioecia hexandria. 783 



called a lower or exterior calyx. Coro/ three- parted, with the 

 base flesliy, and partly impervious. Filamenls six, thick at the 

 base, and inserted on the mouth of the tleshy impervious 

 tube of tiie corol. Anthers linear, incumbent. Pistiilum^ 

 a small, three-toothed, abortive, style-like body is all that is 

 to be found. 



16. C. monoicus. 



Monoicous, scandent. Lea/lets numerous, alternate, linear- 

 lanceolate, polished, and bristly ; sheaths flagelliferous ; sta- 

 meiis monadclphous. 



Native place uncertain. It grows in the Botanic garden 

 to be about the size of the common ratan, and diflfers from it 

 only in being monoicous, the divisions of the corol lanceolate, 

 and in i\\e Ji laments being very completely united. Flower- 

 ing time the rainy season. 



It is needless to give a full description of this plant, which 

 is exactly like C. Rotang, except in the above-mentioned 

 circumstances. Tlie male flowers are about as numerous as 

 \\\e female ones, generally one of each from each of the an- 

 nular scales of the branches of the spadix. The connnon 

 ratan (C. Rotang) 1 have always found completely dioccous; 

 this must therefore be considered a distinct species. 



PHCENIX. Schreb. gen. N. 1694. 

 Male. Ca/i/jc three-toothed. Coro/ three-petalled. Fe- 

 male. Calyx i\\\i\ corol as in the male. Genw.s three, one- 

 celled, one-seeded ; attachment interior. Drupe oblong, point- 

 ed, one-seeded. Embryo in the back or convex side of the 

 perisperm. 



1. P. acaiiiis. Buch, 



Stemless. Leaves radical, pinnate ; leaflets folded, ensiform, 

 in sub-opposite fascicles pointing many ways, the lower 

 spinous. 



