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with three rather indistinct, dark crescentic bands ; 

 margin yellow with three or four fine black crescentic 

 lines ; inside of these the fin has a dusky shade ; the 

 caudal membrane is also crossed by transverse rows of 

 small dots. 



ANNEXE C 



(Voir Seance dn 16 Decembre, page 35.) 

 LODOICEA SEYCHELLARUM 



The Sea Cocoa-nut or Douhle Cocoa-nut 



The following notes of this wonderful Palm have 

 been gathered from " A Ramble round Mauritius, by 

 a Country School-Master, 1859 ", to serve as Appen- 

 dix to the " Notes on the Islands of the Praslin group " 

 presented to the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences 

 at its 49th Anniversary Meeting, the 24th August 

 1878, by Mr. John Anderson of Glenside. 



In 1859 the author of " A Ramble round Mau- 

 ritius " writes as follows : 



There are also one or two of that altogether 

 unique palm, the Lodoicea Sechellerum, or Sea 

 Cocoa-nut ; but they are not in such a state as to give 

 any adequate idea of that singular and stately plant 

 which was long a myth among botanists. Some of ita 

 enormous drupes having been drifted by the currents 

 to the Maldive Islands, it has been termed the Double 

 Cocoa-nut of the Maldives ; and when it was known 

 that the plant did not exist in those Islands, it was 



