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XXIII. PALM^ 



a little above the base, sometimes orthotropous -with the micropyle superior, sometimes 

 more or less anatropous with the micropyle inferior, or facing the wall of the ovary. 

 Fruit sometimes 3-2-1-celled, 3-1-seeded, sometimes 3-lobed, sometimes composed 

 of 3 distinct carpels, accompanied at the base with the persistent and usually 

 hardened perianth. Beekt or dbupe with smooth or scaly epicarp ; sarcocarp fleshy, 

 and sometimes oily or fibrous ; endocarp membranous, fibrous, woody, or bony. Seed 

 oblong, OToid or spherical, erect or pendulous laterally ; testa often adhering to the 

 endocarp ; albumen copious, cartilaginous, horny or sub-woody, dry or oily, homo- 

 geneous or ruminate. Embryo pressed against the periphery of the seed, and 

 covered with a thin layer of albumen, turbinate or conical or cylindric. 



Saguerus Langkab, 

 Fruit cut vertically. 



Cocoa-uut (('.occs nucifera). 

 l?ruit, one-third nat. size. 



Cocoa-nut \_Coeos nucifera'). Fruit cut vertically. 



b. endocarp ; c. testa ; ^, albumen ; e. embryo ; 



f, cavity occupied by the milk. 



Cocoa-nut, seen lengthwise, showing Cocoa-nut, seen from below, and showing 

 the three sides corresponding with the three cavities corresponding to the 



the throe primitive carpels. three original carpels. 



Areca Catechu. 

 Fruit, entire and out vertically. 



