168 PALMACES, 
Fruit roundish, black, surrounded at about the lower 4 by 
the perianth, dilated or split, depressed at the apex, the 
three chinks are permanent, as also the stigmatic cleft. 
This is a remarkable palm, evidently suz sectionis, owing to 
the recurved, or gyrate nodes of inflorescence, the glumaceous 
perianth, and the stalk of the corolla and stamina. 
Allied to this, (at least judging from the aggregate flowers, 
and texture of perianth) is one of the Mergue Palms. 
It certainly approaches Nipa in its perianth, cylindraceous 
amenta, and sudden exsertion of the corolla and stamina, al- 
though, in Nipa, the column only bears filaments. 
Ругепге 1-3, compressz, sub-obcordate, crassze, durissimze, 
fibroso-ossez, internally lined with a lax rete of light brownish 
yellow fibres, with 2 stout entering rounded processes, apice 
foramine perforat. 
The seed conform to the pyrene, there is no proper separable 
tegument in contact with the lax rete. Albumen corneum 
covered outside with yellowish mucilage. Embryo superior, 
_ Opposite the foramen of the pyrene, and indicated by a mam- 
milla in the albumen clavato-conicus. 3 conspicuous canals of 
communication in the centre. 
Ovula small ascending from the top of a stout placenta, 
another resemblance to Pandanesz : it is surrounded by muci- 
lage, erect antitropous. 
Nucleus reduced to a membrane at the epoch of inflores- 
cence.* 
NiPA. 
Nipa fruticans. CCXLIV. 
Inflorescentia paniculata e terra, uno centro terminal. czete- 
ris masculis horumque racemi vel divisiones inflorescentiz sub 
fastigiati. Tegitur omnino bracteis vaginantibus, limbo ven- 
tricoso scaphiforme velexacte spathaceo, nempe antice de- 
hiscens. — 
* Embryo etc. is inverted in Gertner’s figure. 
