142 CXXXIII. PALMA. [ Péychosperma. 
elegans, R. Br. Prod. 267; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 181, t. 105, 
106, 107. 
Queensland. Endeavour River, Banks and Solander; Cape York, W. Hill, 
Daemel ; Sunday Island, A. Cunningham; Cumberland Islands, Nernst; Rockhamp- 
ton and neighbourhood, Thozet, Nernst. 
nate; embryo basal.—Tall palms with a cro pinnate leaves. 
Spadix branching, inserted below or amongst the leaves, the spatha 
s 
The genus extends over East India and the Malayan Archipelago and perhaps le 
eran mig The only Australian species is as yet very doubtful as to its character 
and atlinities. 
Normanbyi, F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 235.—Said to be a palm 
of 40 to 60 ft. with leaves 8 to 10 ft. long, and an axillary inflorescence, 
but described from a single fruit, ovoid with a conical tip, about 1j in. 
long, the pericarp almost woody, resting on an old perianth of which 
the outer series is nearly 3 lines, the inner series 4 in. diameter. 
large, erect, adhering on one side halfway up the endocarp, the albu- 
men deeply ruminate.—Cocos Normanbyi, W. Hill, Rep. Brisb. Bot 
Gard. 1874-6 (F. Mueller.) 
Queensland. Daintree River, JF. Hill. 
6. COCOS, Linn. 
Flowers moneecious in the same spadix, the upper ones male 
equal 
each cell but 2 usually abortive.  Stigmas 3, at erect, at 
length spreading. Drupe large, ovoid or oblong, with a thick flesbY 
and fibrous exocarp; endocarp bony, marked at the base with 3 pits 
