224 
1588. C. AveNAEFoLiaA. G. Leaves sprinkled with hairs, sheaths hairy, 
Involucre truncate. In the dense parts of the jungle at Kandalla, 
1589, C. Nimmoniana. G. 
A small plant with discoloured linear pointed leaves. 
Malabar Hill on the bare rocky parts; in the crevices of rocks in the 
vicinity of Rosa and Elora. All the species are annuals with pretty blue 
flowers which withdraw themselves during the day into their curiously 
shaped involucres. Two or three other species remain to be determined 
and described hereafter. 
ORDER 155. PALME. 
Tae Paco Trips. Lind. nat. syst. p. 279. 80. 
** Palms, the splendid offspring of Tellus and Phoebus, chiefly acknow- 
ledge as their native land those happy regious seated within the tropics, 
where the beams of the latter for ever shine”. Von Martius. 
733. CORYPHA. 1, Hexandria Monogynia. 
Takes it’s name from Koryphe, the top or summit; in allusion to the up- 
permost leaves or fronds which form immense fans. Gaert. 1 ¢. 7. Lam. J1h. 
t. 899. 
1590. C. Umpracutirera. L. Rox. Flora. Ind. 2. p. 177. Codda panna. 
Rheed. Mal. 3. t. 1. ¢. 12. Rumph. 1, ¢. 8. 
The Talipot Palm of Ceylon. The leaves are used for writing on with 
an iron skewer. For an account of this curious Palm, see Knox’s Hist. 
of Ceylon. Intd. by N. in 1833. 
734. TALIERA. Mart. Hexandria Monogynia. 
It’s vernacular name in Bengal. 
1591. T. Bencacensis. Sprengel.Corypha, Taliera. Rox. Flora. Ind. 2. 
p. 174. Cor. Plants. 3. t. 255. 256. 
Intd. by N. 1833. What is the Corypha elata of Bombay in Messrs. Lod- 
dige’s Palmarium at Hackney? see Gardene1’s Magazine. Vol. 1. p. 137. 
735. PHOENIX, L. Dioecia Hexandria. 
The Greek name of the date. Lam. Ill. 2. 863. Gaert. Fruct. 1. ¢. 9. 
1592. P. Dactycirera. L. Rox, Flora. Ind. 3. p. 786. Kaemp. 686.t. 1. 2. 
Kajooree—the Date Palm. Deccan. Col. Sykes. Baroda. N. 
1593, P. Sytvestris. Rox. Flora. Ind. 3. p. 787. Elate Sylvestris, Linn. 
Katou-indel. Rheed. Mal. 3. ¢. 22 to 28, 
Sindee—Wilid Date, common throughout India. 
The Ta baia tou phoinicon mentioned in St. John’s Gospel were probably 
the fronds of the Date palm. 
Baia is an Egyptian word, denoting a leaf or frond, not a branch. Park. 
Lexicon. 
736. HYPH ENE: Gaert. Dioecia Hexandria. 
From Hyphaino--to entwine; alluding to the fibres on the fruit. Gaert. 
Carp. 2. t. 82. Lam. Ill. ¢. 900, 
1594. H. Cortacea. Sprengel. Hyphaene Crinita, Gae. Cucifera. 'The- 
baica. Delil. 
The Doom palm of Egypt. Intd. by. N..1828; by Mr. Maccullough. 1837. 
For an outline of this ‘palm see Ld. Valentia’s yoyages Vol, 4. Pl, Watch 
tower between Mocha and Musa, : 
