NIPA. 171 
unico, nucleo apice papilloso ; cava forsan membrana adherent 
vestit. 
Fructus compositus, size of 1 foot i in diameter, and so ba 
vy, as to be nodding; peduncle scaly with the remains of the 
sheaths. 
The drupes are crowded most closely, and are with some 
difficulty separated, their upper thirds free, with 3 or more 
prominent angles, and smaller intervening ones, tipped with. 
the conical stigmatiferous apex, exserted or free part dark 
brown, many are abortive. 
The axis on which they are arranged is about 4 of the whole 
diameter, and the angularly areolate remains of the perianth 
continue unaltered. 
"гира ? ambita longitudinaliter obovata; epicarpio carnose, 
succulento, with very tough fibres interspersed ; mesocarpio in- 
durato, fibroso densissimo; endocarpio? spongioso farinaceo 
fibris vel venis interjectis ! ! 
Semen magnitudinem ovi galling, erectum ; hilo lato, cavi- 
tat. implens. Tegumentum coriaceum intus viscosum, cum en- 
docarp. adh:xrent venosum 
Albumen cartilaginous, like a shell, very tough, more lax in 
the centre and with a tendency to form a cavity. 
Embryo ob-conicus basilaris, 4reolis binis ad basin. On one 
side of the endocarp is a well pronounced intrant angle, there 
is a corresponding one in the tegument, and in the albumen 
itself. But what this is, must be determined by younger fruits. 
Raphe lata } completa, lateribus et apicem ramosis, ramis 
disposed over the face of the seed, with a tendency to prolong 
and converge to the situation of the mycropyle. 
One of the angles of the ovary always corresponds with the 
stigma, there is no difficulty otherwise in accounting for 
ventral sature. 
Additional reasons for considering Nipa to be a Palm, 
exists in the germination, and in the vernation of the leaves, 
The vernation is remarkable, the extrorse direction of the 
conduplication, depends on the insertion of the pinnule. 
