Phenix.) PALMES. 1095 
spe sone ; Chittagong, coast. 
A stemless palm, with branching rootstock. Beng. 
Golpati, yt gabua. 
F 989. Cocos Linn. 
Unarmed palms ; leaves tufted, pinnatisect ; segments linear. 
Flowers moneecious, on simply panicled, erect, but smc 
drooping spadices, the branches eee perdtensd female flowers, 
often between two males, near their bas es, with close-set males 
above; spathes 2 or more, the lower short, the upper fusiform or 
clavate ; bracts various. ¢ Flowers unsymmetric; perianth- 
fois ange 2 
much larger than males, ovoid; peria said greatly accrescent ; 
outer 3 segments shea, inner 8, shorter, convolu it 
stigmas recurved. Fruit t large, ovoid, terete or 3-gonous, with a 
terminal style and a single seed ; pericarp thick, fibrous ; endocarp 
hard, with 3 basal eyes, the remains of the 3 ovarian cells. Seed 
connate with endocarp ; albumen solid or hollow or merely lining 
. “sieaenes with a thick, hard coat; embryo opposite one basal 
cy Cocos NUCIFERA Linn.; BF, 4... 614 + BB. I. vi. 482; 
. D. G. 1520. 
Cultivated. 
A tree, instr! feet high. Vernac. Nariyal, narikel, dab. 
° The Coco 
: 990. Phoenix Linn. 
Tall or short, simple or soboliferous palms ; rang pinnatisect ; 
Segments lanceolate or ensiform induplica 
Owers dice 
branched, interfoliar, erect or drooping spadices; spathe basilar, 
complete, coriaceous. 3 Sepals 3, connate in a cupular, 3-toothed 
calyx. Petals 3, obliquely ovate, valvate. Stamens 6; filaments 
short, Subulate; anthers erect, dopathcad: Pistillode minute or 0. 
* Sepals 8, connate in a globose, accrescent calyx. Petals 8, 
*ounded, imbricate. Staminodes 6, free or connate in a 6-toothed 
