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Double Coconut Palm, Sea Coconut Palm, Coconut of the 

 Maldives (English). 



Coco de mer. Coco de Salomon, Double Coco, Cul de Negresse, 

 Coco des Seychelles, Coco de File Praslin, Cocotier des iles 

 Sechelles, Cocotier des Maldives, Cocotier des Seychelles, Lodoice 

 des Maldives, Lodoicee, Lodoicee des Sechelles (French). 



Coco das Maldivas (Portug.), 



Meercocos, Seecocos, Doppelte Cocosnuss, Wundernuss Salomons, 

 Maldivische Nuss, Kokosartige Lodoicee (Germ.) 



Dubbele Cocosnoot van de Seychelles, Dtibbele Klapper, Male- 

 divische Noot, Seychellennoot, Zeeklapper (Dutch). 



Darya-ka-naryal (Hind.), 



Darya-ka-narel (Decc). 



■Jahari-naral (Bomb.). 



Kadat-rengay (Tam.). 



Samudrapu-tenkaya (Tel.). 



Katal-tenna (Malay.). 



Darya-nu-nariyal (Guz.). 



Mudu-pol (Sing.). 



Penle-on-si (Burm.). 



Narjile-bahri (Arab.). 



Nargile-bahri (Pers.). 



Calappa Laut (called so by the Dutch in the Indian Archipelago). 



Djenggi, Djenggli, Kelapa Laut, Kepo djenggi, Pelok djenggi 

 (Java). 



Description. — Trunk 60-100 feet high, straight, apparently des- 

 titute of bark, annulate, about 1 foot in diameter, with scarcely 

 any difference in size to the very top. Leaves 12-20, large, 8-10 

 feet long, 5-6 feet broad [sometimes up to 20 feet long and 12 

 broad], the youngest rising from the centre, at first folded like a 

 shut fan, and then clothed with a downy substance, later on 

 broadly-ovate with a central rib and regular folds diverging from 

 it ; margins more or less deeply cut, especially at the extremity ; 

 the colour bright j^ellow green ; texture thin and dry. 



Spathes sheathing at the base of the spadices, small. Male and 

 female flowers on different trees. Male spadix from the axils 

 of the leaves, amentaceous, from 2-4 feet long, 3-4 inches 

 in diameter in the thickest part, cylindrical, tapering towards 

 the apex, closely covered on all sides with densely imbri- 

 cated, semicircular, slightl}^ convex scales. When looking exter- 

 nally at these scales, a small aperture will be perceived, from 

 which the stamens issue ; and this aperture, though near the base, 

 is not in the centre of each scale, but constantly on one and the 

 same side ; and as the scale laps over with that side the one next 

 above it, so the aperture and the stamens will be found to pass 

 through both. The flowers in subreniform clusters in hollows of 



