476 



Spec. Char. Shrub, 10 — 12-feet: branctes eimple, undivided : 

 leaves linear, rib and margins spinous : spines green : male spadices 

 spiked, bracts white, distinct : females solitary : fruit sub-globose, 

 peduncled : drupes turbinate filled with a many-celled pntamen : 

 stigmas oval, sessUe : flowers small, very fragTant. 



Sandy places near the sea coast, flowering in the rainy season. 



(2) P. rAsoiCDiAEis. (Lam.) 



Ident, Lam. Encycl. I. 372.— WiUd. Spec. iv. 646. 



Engram. Eheede Mai. II. t. 6. 



Spec. CniE. Shrubby: leaves spinous at the back and on the 

 margin : spines distant : fruit oblong, solitary : drupes fascicled. 



Malabar. 



(3) P. FfflTiDiJs. fHoscoe.J 



Ident. Koxb. flor. Ind. III. p. 742. 



Spec. Chah. Shrubby, 5 — 6-feet : racemes partial, or male 

 thyrses simple : ovaries distinct : drupes cuspidate-spinous : nuts 

 1 -celled : flowers fetid-smeUing. 



Bengal, flowering in the cold season. 



(4) P. puBCATxrs. (Roxh.J 

 Ident. Eoxb. 1. c. p. 774. 



Engrm. Eheede Mai. II. t. 8. 



Spec. Chae. Shrubby : leaves broad-lanceolate, margin and keel 

 prickly-serrulate: drupe of the oblong compound fruit cuneate, 

 crowned with a smooth, acuminate, incurved, forked spine : nuts 

 1 -celled. 



Chittagong. Malabar. 



GEiroS II. NIPA. 

 Monceoia Hexandrist. Sex: Systt 



Derm. The name given to the plant in the Moluccas. 



Gen. Chae. Mowers monoecious on a branched spadix, branches 

 surrounded by a spathe, lateral ones amentiform, mede : upper ones 

 female, compact in a capitulum. Males. — Calyx l-bracteate, 6- 

 sepaled, sepals linear, reflexed : stamens 6 : filaments connate into 

 a column : anthers extrorse, 2-celled. Females. — Calyx none : 

 ovaries many, compact into a head, obliquely truncated, 1-celled, 

 glabrous, 3-ovuled : stigmas 3, sessile : drupes irregulai", fibrous, 

 1-ceUed, 1 — 2-Beeded : seed bony : embryo basilar. 



