MONCECIA. MONADELPH. 1718 — 1720. 1581 



mitis. Fronds doubly pinnate: petioles of the leafets nodding: 



berries 1-feeded. 

 Cochinchina. Lour cochinch. 569. 



1 7 1 8 . ARECA. Spathe 2-valved • corol 3-petalled. 

 Male. Filaments 9, the 3 onter-ones longer. 

 Fem. Drupe with an imbricate calyx. 



y,atecm. Fronds pinnate, leafets revolute, oppofite, end bitten: 

 Eft Indies. Biaikw t, 387 Rumph. /!mb, i. /. 4. 



iryziejovmis Fronds pinnate ; leafets glabrous, 3-nerved. 

 E»ft Indies. Humph. Amb. i-p. 40./. $.f. 3. 



oleracea. Leafets q.ite entire: Cabbage-ires. 



Weft Indie?. S/oan. Jam. 2. tab, 215. 

 The green tops are cut and eaten as cabbage. 



1719. AMBROSINIA. Spathe i -leafed, (Separated by 

 a membranaceous partition, containing the fta- 

 mina in the hinder cell and upper part of the 

 partition, piftils in the outer cell and lower parr 

 of the partition. 



.Majii. Ambrofinia. 



Sicily. Bocc, Sir. t. 26 Moris. feB. 13./. 6. /. 19. 

 Root tuberous: lea-vet radical, ovate, fhining. 



ORDER JX. MONADELPHIA. 



1720. PINUS. Male. Calyx & peltate fcale of the 

 ament : corol o : anthers growing to the fcale?, 

 feffile. 



Fem. Calyx a 2-flowered fcale of the cone : corol o : 

 nuts 2 under each fcale, winged. 



A. Leaves numerous from the fame Jheathing bafe. Firs. 



-* fyfoeflns. Leaves in pairs, rigid: younger cones peduncled, recurved, 

 dependent: antheras with a minute creft. Scotch fir. 



Woods. Lambert Pin. t. I. Woodv.t. 207. Blackw. t 190. 



Leaves in pairs, abbreviated, ft iff: cones ovate, obtufe, 

 minute; the younger-ones feffile and erect. 

 South of Europe. Lambert. Pin t. 2. 



Tree hardly 7 feet high : creil of the artier*- large, 2-lobed : 

 female-ament never curved : cones ovate, fmall. 



