1094 BENGAL PLANTS. [Wallichia, 
orbicular, coriaceous, imbricate. Petals 8, triangular, valvate. 
Staminodes few or 0. Carpels connate in a 2-3-celled, stipitate 
ovary; ovules subbasilar; stigmas conic. Pruitt ovoid-oblong, 
1-3-celled. Seeds 1-8, erect, plano-convex; albumen equable ; 
embryo dorsal. 
Female flowers crowded, 2-bracted; male corolla twice as long as the 
calyx, mouth of calyx quite entire ; female corolla shorter than the ovary 
densiflora. 
Female flowers distant, 3-bracted ; male corolla half as long as the calyx, 
mouth of calyx 3-toothed ; female corolla about twice as long as the ovary 
caryotoides. 
2268, WaLLIcHIA DENSIFLORA Mart.; F. B. I. vi. 419; E.D. W.5. 
Chittagong 
A stemless or aie palm. 
2269. WALLICHIA CARYO s Roxb.; F. B. I. vi. 419; E. D. 
6 iy Wires cary iokets F. 1. iii. €21. 
Chittagong. 
A stemless or short-stemmed palm. 
988. Nipa Wurmb. 
warf, gregarious palms of tidal swamps; stock branched; 
leaves pinnatisect ; segments lanceolate, plicate. Flowers monc- 
cious, on terminal, branched, erect spadices; males on the lateral, 
catkin-like branches ; females in a oe. terminal head, droop- 
ing in fruit; spathes numerous, sheathing. ¢ Flowers minute, 
mixed with setaceous bracteoles. Sepals 8, linear, glumaceous, 
with broad, truncate, inflexed tips. Petals 3, glumaceous, smaller. 
Stamens 3; filaments connate in a column; anthers basifixed, 
line Pistillode 0. ¢ Flowers much larger than males. 
Perianth of 6 similar, displaced segments. Staminodes o. Car- 
pels 3, their apices free, each with an oblique, stigmatic ¢ line; 
ovules 3, erect. Fruit a large, globose, agglomerate mass of many 
obovoid, hexagonal, 1-celled and 1-seeded ripe carpels with pyr 
midal and infra-apical stigmas; pericarp fleshy, mixed with 
fibres; endocarp spongy and farinaceous. Seed erect, grooved 0D 
one side; testa coriaceous, viscid within and adnate to the endo- 
carp; hilum broad; albumen hollow, equable ; embryo obconi¢, 
2270. Nipa rruticans Wurmb.; F. I. iii. 650; F. B. I. vi. 4245 
E. D. N. 168 
