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Suh-genus I—IIUCOCCUS, DKUDE.' 



Tall, unarmed, monoecions, with smooth annnlate stems. 

 Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets narrow. 



Spadix erect, at length drooping, simply panicled ; branches 

 bearing scattered female flowers, often between two males towards 

 their bases and males above. Spathes 2 or more, lower short, npper 

 fusiform or clavate ; perianth coriaceous. Male flowers nnsymme- 

 tric ; sepals small, valvate ; petals oblong, acute, valvate ; stamens 6 ; 

 filaments subulate ; anthers linear, erect ; pistillode minute or absent. 



Female flowers much larger; globose ; perianth greatly accres- 

 cent ; sepals imbricate ; petals shorter, convolute with imbricate 

 tips; ovary 3-celled, usually 1-ovuled; style short, stigmas recurv- 

 ed; ovules subbasilar. 



Fruit large, ovoid, terete or trigonous, 1 -seeded; style terminal ; 

 pericarp thick, fibrous ; endocarp bony, with 3 basal pores, the 

 remains of the 3 cells ; seed cohering with the endocarp ; albumen 

 hollow, equable, merely lining the endocarp with a thick hard 

 coat; embryo opposite one pore. 



Species 1, of American origin, but widely distributed throughout 

 the tropics. 



COCOS NUCIFERA, L. Fl. Zeyl. 392; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. II. 

 12.3 {exl. descript. flor. masc. etfem.) t. 62, 75 et t. 78 tantum quoad fig. 

 V et VI, exol. fig. Ill, et IV, et analys. omn ; Kitnth Eniim. Ill, 285 : Roxb. 

 Cor. PI. I, 52, t. 73 ; Fl. Ind. III. 614 ; Thw. Emim. 330; Brandis For. PI. 

 556 ; Kurz For. Fl. II, 540 ; Hook Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 482 (with the above 

 restrictions as to Martius) ; Brandis, Trees of India 648 ; Cooke Fl. Pres. 

 Bomb. II, 812 ; Blmne Rumph. Ill, 82-88 ; Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 64 ; Hook. 

 Journ. Bot. II (1850), t. 1 ; Beccari, Malesia I, 85-86 ; Le Palme incluse 

 nel genere Cocos 12 ; Hemsley Bot. in the Voyage of the Challenger, III, 

 103,202, 249,278, 297, 306, 809.— C. ?zfm«, Grift\ Notul. II, 166— Rheede 

 Hort. Mai. I, t. 1-4. 



Names : Of the tbee : 



Unrjlish : Coco Nut Palm, Coco Nut Tree, Cocoa Nut, Cocoa 



Nut Palm. 

 German : Kokospalme, Echte Kokospalme, Cocospalme, Cocos- 



nussbaum, Kokospalmenbaum, Kokosbaum, Calappabaum, 



Calappusbaum, Indianisch er Nussbaum, Kokosgalen, Wan- 



dernde Seeuferpalme. 

 Butch : Kokospalm, 1 oko, kokosboom, kokosnootenboom, ko- 



kosnootpalm, klappeiboom, klapperpalm, klapper, calappusboom, 



kalappus, cocos, cocotboom, cocospalm. 

 French : Cocotier, cocotier commun, cocotier des Indes, cocotier 



nucifere, cocotier ordinaire, cocotier porte-noix, palmier. 



C^) In the arrangement of the species of Cocos I follow 0. Beccari; cf. his 

 " Palme inclnse nel genere Cocos " p. 8-9. 



