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Alliance IX. PALMALES.—Tre Palmal Ah 



Bcaly spadix, and a minitU embryo lodged below th 



\i this point the vegetative force of Endogens acquin b its maximum po 

 for tin' most pari in trees of gigantic Btature, always forming woo. I, and inally 



arriving at dimensioi un- 



known among other plai in Uie 



^ instant f some of the < :.' imi or 



/> Rotangs, which Rumphiui 



us are sometimes as much as 1200 

 or evi n 1800 feel I 

 2. 158. ) A writer in the Lit 

 (14. 263) asserts that Palms 



r Arads than to any other 

 order of Bndogens, and I think him 

 so right that 1 should have followed 

 Meisner in including Palms in the 

 Aral alliance, if it had not 

 their perfect floral envi lop* b, the 

 uniformly indeterminate station of 

 their embryo, and the tendency that 

 exists among them to form . flow- 

 \r J( ; which circumstances bring them 



close upon Lilyworts, and seem to in- 

 dicate :t higher degree of organization 

 than we find among the incomp 

 flowered, constantly ' J? Aral plants. 



Tin- genera] opinion of Bota 

 seems to I"' in favour of n garding 

 Palms as one natural order, an opi- 

 nion to which it does not si em at 

 present desirable to object h may 

 however b observed, that the scaly- 

 frnited <:< n< ra, called Lepidi 

 l . Martius, Calami te bj Kunth, 

 Calaminae by Griffith, offer in that 





circumstance, and also in most instances in their habit, a 

 from the condition of the othei m to indicate th< 



one natural order to be struck oH" the true Palms. 



i SC— Palm Trees Blume l < - N ' "• 



