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delicate than in the two preceding; it does not answer the 

 description of any in Roxburgh's Flora, but comes nearest to 

 P paludosa. 



4. COCOS, Linn. 



1. C NUCIFERA, Linn. Fl. Zeyl. 391. The Cocoanut tree. 

 This invaluable tree is too well known to require description. 

 Tenga, Rheed. Mai. i, t. 1 to 4. 



5. CALAMUS. 



1. C ROTANG, Willd. ii, 202. Stem jointed, climbing to a 

 great extent, enveloped in the thorny sheaths of the leaves ; leaves 

 pinnate, 1 8 to 36 inches long ; leaflets opposite or alternate, sessile, 

 linear-lanceolate, the margins armed with minute bristles. Pretty 

 common in the jungles towards the South. Native name " Bet." 

 This is the common Rattan, from which baskets, &c. are made. 



CLIII. PANDANACE^l. 

 1. PANDANUS, Linn. Fil. 



1. P FURCATUS, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, p 744. A large spreading 

 bush, pretty much like the following, but with the large compound 

 fruit of an oblong shape ; drupes cuneate, crowned with an incurv- 

 ed, polished, sharp-forked spine. Rheed. Mai. ii, t. 8. Between 

 Belgaum and the Ram Ghaut. 



2. P ODORATISSIMUS, Linn. Suppl. A large spreading bush, 

 with fusiform roots from the stem and branches ; leaves closely 

 imbricated in 3 spiral rows, long linear-subulate, drooping; margins 

 and back armed with very fine sharp spines ; male and female inflo- 

 rescence on separate bushes ; fruit almost round, 6 to 8 inches in 

 diameter, something like a Pine-apple, and of a rich orange colour. 

 Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 738. Native name " Keura." In sandy places 

 near the sea. The Screw Pine. 



CLIV. ERIOCAULACE^E. 



1. ERIOCAULON. 



1. SEXANGULARE, Linn. Zeyl. 49 ; Willd. sp. 1, 485. Stemless ; 

 leaves narrow-linear, subulate, 3-nerved, pellucid; peduncles and 

 sheaths glabrous, the latter half the length of the leaf; peduncles 

 with 5 furrows (6-angled, Linn.) ; heads glabrous, bracts (involucre) 



