1090 BENGAL PLANTS. [Corypha. 
branches ; — a large, ovoid, terete or trigonous nut ibe 
a fibrous hus , Coc 
{Segments of “te ves with induplicate sides [p. 1089] .. ee 
+Spadix infrafoliar, flowering after the fall of the leaf in the axil 
of which it is formed ; leaf-segments towards apex of leaf more or 
less confluent as a plaited limb :—[p. 
Male flowers one on each side of a female along the branches of 
..Pinanga. 
the spad 
Male ios minute, solitary or 2-nate towards tips of spadix- 
branches; female flowers larger, solitary reca. 
*Fruit clothed with reflexed, shining, elosaly. adpressed, imbrenting 
scales; stems climbing, rarely erect, armed ; ni rachis or spadix 0 
flagel 
sheath produced as lum :—[p. 1 
Gpathen tubular, porsiatont 66.5.0). aiid ciate ees lensetls alamu 
Spathes open, usually eymbiform, dehiscent ............ Donindnavella. 
982. Corypha Linn. 
Tall, stout, unarmed palms, flowering after about forty years, 
and dying after once flowering and fruiting ; leaves huge, orbicular 
or lunate, Srapcotmd ana ti petiole spinous. Flowers small, 
hermaphrodite, on ery large, terminal, erect, pyramidally 
paniculate spadix ; cuits many, tubular. Sepals connate in a 
eupular, 3-fid calyx. Petals 8, connate below in a stipe, ovate, 
acute, imbricate or subvalvate. Stamens 6; filaments subulate ; 
anthers dorsifixed. Carpels 3, connate in a 3-lobed and 3-celled 
ovary; ovules basilar, erect in each cell; style short, subulate ; 
stigma minute. Fruit of 1-8 globose, fleshy drupes, with basilar 
styles. Seeds erect, globose or oblong ; albumen equable ; embryo 
spiral. 
Trunk distinctly spirally ridged, obscurely annulate; plaits of the leaf 
TOW ; yaa obtusely pyramidal, only one-fifth or one- ae = 
cnet Ei iter RUCIY haces tance scares phe deine eaten uc emaaenxe one 
Trunk pete spirally ridged, distinctly annulate; plaits of the eid 
Ese Pracitig sharply pyramidal, from one-fourth to one-third the length 
umbraculifera- 
2260. CorypHa ELATA Roxb.; F. I. ii. 176; F. B. I. vi. 428. 
Bengal generally, but only cultivated 
A tall, straight tree, 60-70 feet high. " Beng. Bajur. 
2261. CorypHa umBracunirera Linn.; F. I. ii. 177; F. B. 1 
