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Drupa? prismato-pyramidales, bi-tetragonae, uniloculares, monosper- 

 niaa, basi stricta, subtruncata integrae (sarcocarpio rugoso-fibroso ?), 

 endocarpio lapideo insequaliter crasso ; semen solitarium locum re- 

 plens, ovato-globosum, solidum, uniforme, e placenta basilari eroctum, 

 albumen a?quabilo corneum, embrjo basilaris umbilicum attingens. 



1. Palseokeura Pellegriniana Mass., Sopra un nuovo gen. di Pandanee 571 

 foss., p. 22, t. I-IV; Pl. foss, nov., p. 13; Syllabus pl. foss., p. 33. 

 Nipadites Pellegrinianus Mass., in litt. ad Meneghini. — Charact. 

 gen. 



In schisto margaceo eocenico prope pagum u Breonio » in loco 

 dicto « Campo Biondo » (Vaio Bruto) in agro Veronensi (Mass.). — 

 Fruct. cm. 20 alt. apice cm. 17 circ. iat., maxima orbis cm. 42 

 circ. metiens. Convenit forma et structura cum fructibus generis 

 Panclanus, magnitudine cum fructibus Cocci nuciferce. 



Gen. Pandanns Linn., Suppl., p. 64, n. 1430. 



Frutices vel arbores Archipelagi Malayani et insularum Masca- 

 rensium et Seychellarum incolse, pauca) in Asia et Africa vel in 

 Australia tropica et Oceania vigentes. Flores dioici, mares in spadi- 

 cibus thyrsoideis conferti, stamina numerosa, sessilia v. in columna 

 interdum peltata inserta, filamentis liberis v. connatis. Feminei in spa- 

 dice simplici dense conferti. Folia longissima vel mediocria aculeata. 

 Syncarpium globosum ellipsoideum oblongum vel cylindraceum, ssepe 

 ponderosum. 



1. Pandanus Ettingshauseni Squin., Note s. quelques typ. de Mono- 572 

 cotyl. etc, Bull. Soc. g6ol. France, ser. III, tom. XIX, p. 776, t. 

 XVI, f. 4, 4 a, 4 ^; Contrib., IV. Monocotiledoni, p. 68, t. XX, f. 4, 

 t. XXX, f. 8, 8a, Sb, 8c. — Foliis magnis, 40-50 et amplius mm. latis, 

 margine minute et approximate aculeatis, nervo mediano inconspi- 

 cuo, nervis lateralibus duobus superne, quatuor inferne, validioribus, 

 parallelis, striis interstitialibus tenuibus, I-I '/g ^^' distantibus, 

 nervillis transversis, flexuosis, conjunctis. 



In formatione miocenica inferiori a S. Giustina » Ligurice 

 (Squin.). 



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