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aut 5 (quoque 3 aut 6?) uniovulatis. Stylus terminalis, erectus, apice 
tripartitus, eruribus subulatis, unico simplici rariusve bifido, binis 
bifidis, divisionibus intus stigmatosis. Ovula —? integumento duplici, 
presso-globosze, deorsum cuneato-angulatz, subpentagons, muricato- 
tuberculatz et mature crasso-corticate, tuberculis sursum majoribus, 
longitudinaliter fibrosis et in parte supra verticem fructus convergenti- 
bus, quadri- et quinque- (et 3- aut 6-?) loculares. Semina in loculis 
solitaria, e fructus angulis centralibus oblique adscendentia, hilo ma. 
convexo cieatricoso, oblongo-obovata, introrsum bifacilia. Testa crassa, 
ossea, lzevigata ; membrana interna vasis ramosis percursa. Albumen 
osseum, solidum. Embryo periphericus, dr hilum sub-basilaris. 
Germinatio per chordam elongatam remotiva.”’ alm. p. 306. 
s already observed, our flowering milio are m perfect, for 
Mr. Purdie was at the spot during the more advanced state of the 
fruit, and was thence enabled to send a bountiful supply of excellent 
seeds ; thus I am unable to confirm the accuracy of the description of 
the parts of the blossom. One male spadix which we possess, exhibits a 
dense compacted mass of stamens, very much resembling the male flowers 
of Freycinetia ; hence, probably, and from other peculiarities of structure, 
botanists have been led to refer the Phytelephas to Typhacee (Hum- 
boldt), others to Pandanee (Kunth, Endlicher, &c.), Ruiz and Pavon, 
Lindley, &e., to the Palms; while Von Martius in his very recently 
published number of his Palms, remarks :—** Genus, pro distincti ordinis 
typo a me habitum (Consp. regni Veget. p. 6) hine Palmis inde Typha- 
ceis et Pandaneis affine, a Gaudichaudio prioribus adjudicatum, quibus 
notis congruat, quibus differat et quo modo vicinis ordinibus necta- 
tur, Botanicorum ulteriora studia doeet " and he places it along 
with Nipa (usually ranged under Pandanee) in a section of “ Genera 
heteroclita: floris fceminei perigonio deficiente." Yet he does describe 
a floral covering, at least in the male flower. 
The fruit of the Phytelephas will be considered of more interest by 
our readers than the flowers. It is represented at our Tab. VI., upon 
the entire plant, on a very reduced scale; and the young and per- 
fect fruit (still upon a very reduced scale, about one quarter of the 
natural size, from specimens in the Museum of the Royal Gardens) 
together with the seeds, at our Tab. VII. The size of our large fruits 
is ten inches across, and twenty-five in cireumference: they appear at 
