Cocos-J] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f .) 483 



614 ; Thw. Enum. 330 : Brand. For. Fl 556 ; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 540 ; Blutne 

 Rumph. iii. 82 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Sat. iii. 64 ; Hook. Journ. Sot. ii. (1850), t. 1. 

 C. nana, Griff. Notul. ii. 166. Rheede Hort. Mai. i. t. 1-4. 



Cultivated in the hot damp regions of India, Burma, and Ceylon, especially 

 near the sea (indigenous in the Cocos Isld. and N. Andaman, Kurz). DISTRTB. 

 All tropical shores. 



Trunk 40-80 ft., flexuous, annulate, base thickened. Leares 12-18 ft. ; leaflets 

 2-3 ft., coriaceous, flaccid ; petiole 3-5 ft. stout. Spadix 4-6 ft., branches flexuous ; 

 lower spathc 2-3 ft., oblong, hard, splitting lengthwise ; male fl. small ; fern. 1 in. 

 long, 2-bracteolate, disk annular. Drape 4-10 in. long, trigonously obovoid or sub- 

 globose, green or yellowish ; albumen lining the endocarp. C. nana is a small low 

 var. grown in the Maldive Islds. and Ceylon. 



ADDENDUM TO PALMS. 



TEYSMANNIA ALTIFRONS, Reichb. f. $- Zoll. in Linncea xxviii. 657 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Sat. iii. 749. Mr. Ridley (Singapore) informs that this noble Sumatran Palm is 

 also a native of the Malay Peninsula. The genus is of doubtful affinity, but most 

 probably belongs to the Tribe CorypTiea. It may be recognized by its almost 

 etemless habit, and enormous erect elongate-rhombic plaited leaves. 



ORDEE CLXIY. PANDANEJE. 



Small dioecious trees or shrubs, often scandent with aerial roots. Leaves 

 usually trifarkras, narrow, acuminate, coriaceous, margins and keel usually 

 spinously toothed. Spadices axillary or terminal, simple or branched, 

 clothed with leafy spathes ; flowers small, crowded on a catkin-like spadix 

 or its branches, bracts and bracteoles 0. Perianth 0. Male fl. stamens 

 many, filaments free or connate ; anthers erect, basifixed ; pistillode or 

 small. Fern. fl. staminodes or small ; ovary ] -celled, free or connate with 

 those of contiguous flowers ; stigmas subsessile, papillose ; ovules solitary 

 and suberect, or many and parietal. Fruit a globose oblong mass of free 

 or connate 1-x -celled woody or fleshy angular drupes. Seeds minute, testa 

 striated, albumen hard fleshy ; embryo minute. 



Stem erect or prostrate. Staminodes in fern. fl. 0. Carpels 1-ovuled. 1. PANDANUS. 

 Stem usually climbing. Staminodes of fern. fl. hypogynous. Car- 

 pels many ovuled 2. FRBYCINETIA. 



1. PANDANUS, Linn.f. 



Characters as above. Species numerous, all tropical, chiefly Mascarene 

 and Malayan. 



I am compelled to be brief with the characters of the Indian species, very few 

 of which are fully described ; and of the Malayan especially, the available specimens 

 are most unsatisfactory. I omit many usually cited refereuces, and some synonyms 

 which appear to me to be doubtful, and am by no means confident as to the value of 

 much that remains. 



* Carpels not united in groups. 



t Male fl. of free stamens ivith very short filaments. Drupes with a 

 pyramidal crown produced into a straight or curved spinescent style. 



1. P. foetidus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 742; shrubby, leaves 4-6 ft. by 

 3-4 in., strongly spinous-toothed, anthers very long [-.lender, fruit sub- 

 solitary oblong or subglobose, crown of drupes smooth or nearly so. Kunth 



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