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Kunth BniTm. PL III. 275.— Karst. Linn. 28, 255, 273.— Mart. 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. II. 135, t. 41, 75, 95-97; III. 296, 325, t. 167- 

 169.— Oerst. Palm. Centro-Amer. 1858, 49.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. 

 Ind. 522.— Wallace Palm. Amaz. 116, t. 3 fig. 1, 46.— B. Eodr. 

 Enum. Palm. Nov. 42.— Drude in Fl. Brasil. III. II. 434.— Benth. 

 & Hook. Gen. PI. III. II. 947, 130. 



Stems generally lofty, cylindrical, smooth, irregularly annulate ; 

 some species stemless. Leaves large, regularly, pinnate ; petioles 

 with the margins of the sheathing bases more or less fibrous. 



Spadix arising from among the lower leaves ; spathes double, the 

 interior one complete and woody. Flowers monoecious or dioecious, 

 yellowish-white. Male flowers : sepals 3, free, or coherent at the 

 base ; petals membranous or fleshy, lanceolate, erect. Stamens 

 6-24 ; pistillode small. Female flowers : sepals and petals 3, ovate ; 

 ovdxj egg-shaped; stjde short; stigmas 3 ; staminodes forming a ring 



Fruit large, ovate or oblong, with a dry fibrous outer covering, 

 red or greenish brown. Seeds usually 3, sometimes 4 or 5. Albu- 

 men cartilaginous, equable, mostly solid. Embryo basilar. 



Species about 23. 



Distribution. — In various parts of South America, especially in 

 the vicinity of the Amazon and its tributaries, from the level of the 

 sea to a height of 4,000 feet above it. 



Cultivation in Europe. — Handsome stove palms. They grow 

 well in a compost of peat and loam in equal quantities and require a 

 liberal supply of water; summer temperature from 65 '-'-80'-', winter 

 temperature from 55°-60'^". 



ATTALEA COSUNE, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 300, t. 167, f. 4. 

 — Walp. Ann. I, 1008.— Oerst. in Vidensk. Meddel. 1858, 50 ; Seem. Bot. 

 Voy. Herald, p. 204.— Godm. & Sal. Biol. Centr.— Amer. Ill, 415. 



Names : Of the tree : 



English : Cohune palm, Cohune tree. 



German : Cohunepalme. 



French: Cohune (de la Guyane). 



In Panama : Palma real, Corozo gallinazo. 



English : Cohune nut. 

 German : Cohunenuss. 



Of the nut 



Of the oil 



English : Cohune oil. 

 German : Cohuneoel. 

 French : Huile de cohune. 

 Dutch : Cohuneolie, palmolie. 



