Cocos. | CXXXIII. PALME. 143 
Seed solitary, enveloped in pulp; hilum lateral; albumen not rumi- 
nate. Embryo basal.—Tall palms, the stem marked with annular 
scars and long retaining the scale- like base of the etioles. Leaves in a 
terminal erown, simply pinnate with numerous longitudinally plicate 
segments, Inflorescence from the base of the leaves, the spadix with 
outer bra, 
The genus comprises several South American Von Mapek: the Australian one, 
which is common in tropical Asia, chiefly near the sea and is spread by culti- 
vation over the Bipini regions of the new as well as the pery world. 
C. nu cifera, Linn.; Kunth, Enum. iii. 285. —This, the well- 
known “ Cocoa-nut Palm” atinining often 70 to 80 ft., is said to be of 
stunted and crooked growth in the open sandy flats of Keppel Bay and 
about 30 ft, high, the leaves 12 to 16 ft. long with numerous rigid 
segments. Spatha fusiform, thick and woody, 5 to 6 ft. long, the 
spikes 1 to 2 ft., the common peduncle 1 ft. Male perianth about 4 
lines long, the outer segments scarcely 1 line. Filaments nearly as 
long as the anthers. Female perianth, with a slightly enlarged ovary 
a x Bc m Hist. Nat. Palm m. ii. 123, t. 88; "Gert rtn. 
EA 
NR oisi and Keppel Bay, Thozet. 
7. ARENGA, Labill. 
(Saguerus, Blume.) 
‘ 2 ers monocious, but usually in separate spadices, the males 
uiv x Mong the branches, the females singly Veris the rhachis 
: a 
Without valvate segments. Stamensin the m ila es numerous, 
1 denn. rudimentary ovary. Ovary in the nire 3-celled, with 
aborti mg ovule in each cell. Berry fleshy. Seeds 3 or fewer by 
albumen fe one enveloped i in a pellueid pulp; fe thick and hard ; 
not rumin Embryo dorsal.—Tall palms, the stem 
n egularly uid with s e aining in vs 
jagged at rown, pinnate with numerous segments toothed or ~ 
envelo e end. Spa dix with long simple branches, the peduncle 
ped in m several imbricate | sheathing bracts, Flowers rather large. 
- [ced of very few species, from East India and the Malayan 
xA Labill (Bes one 3 believed by Beccari to be the common 
The g 
