482 The Palms of British East India. 



middle, coriaceous, brown, valvate. Barren stamina 3, united to the corolla 

 as far as the sinuses of its segments, ends thickened, glandular, yellowish. 

 Ovarium roundish-ovate, with three obtuse angles, 1 or sometimes 2-cel- 

 led. Stigma 1, or sometimes 2, cordate, channelled down the middle. Ovu- 

 les 1, or sometimes 2, according to the stigmata and cells of the ovary. 



Fruit surrounded at the base by the perianth, depressed, roundish, 

 about the size of a carbine bullet, greenish red, or red, presenting (gene- 

 rally) at the apex an oblique cordate stigma ; epicarpium brittle, sub- 

 fibrous. Seed one. Albumen horny, ruminated. Embryo situated ob- 

 liquely above the middle of the albumen. 



I can find no distinction between the Malacca and the Bo- 

 tanic Garden specimens, the former, however, were not 

 noted to be soboliferous. 



The substance of the ovarium, the buds and the outer 

 surface of the albumen abound with raphides. 



Martius* mentions his having only met with one ovulum 

 and a simple stigma. I find however, often two stig- 

 mata, when the ovarium is two-celled ; in the other case the 

 stigma is oblique, and the ovarium smaller. 



Dr. Martius is to be considered the authority for the 

 species. 



WALLICHIA. 



Roxb. Corom. PL 3. t. 295. (1819 Sprengel.) Mart. Progr. 

 p. 17. Reichenb. Consp. Reg. Veg.p. 72. No. 1647. Bartl. 

 Ord. Nat. p. 65. Spreng. Gen. pi. p. 285. No. 1476. Lindl. 

 Int. Nat. Ord. p. 346 — non D. C. nee Reinwdt. 



Harina. Ham. Mem. Wern. 5. p. 317- Spreng. Gen. pi. p. 

 792. No. 4110. Mart. Palm. p. 188. t. 136. (part, mala.) 

 Endl. Gen.pl. p. 248. No. 1732. 



Wrightea. Roxb. Icones. 14. /. 78. FL ind. 3. ^.621. non 

 R.Br. 



Orania. Blume. Mart. Palm. p. 186. t. 157. Endl. Gen.pl. 

 p. 248. No. 1731. Bl. Rumphia. t. 85. 



Seguaster minor. Rumph. Hb. Amb. I. t. 15. 



* Palmae. 1. c. 



