PLANTS OF PRINCE OF WALES ISLAND. 85 



LlCUALA. 



Licuala spinosa, Willd. 2, p. 201. Thumb, nov. gen. 70. 

 Gaeertner. fruit. 2.268. Corypha pilearia. Loureiro. ed. Willd. 

 p. 265. Corypha licuala Lamarck. Encyclop 2, p. 231. 



Calyx, perianth one leafed, cup-shape, without villous, 

 leathery ; three cleft ; segments erect, obtuse. Corolla one 

 petaled, three cornered, three cleft ; segments lanceolate, 

 erect. Nect. a ballous circle, stamen bearing, adnate to the 

 tube of the Corolla. Stam : Filaments six, very short, erect, 

 arising from the margin of the nectary, anthers twin. Pist : 

 Germ above, turbinate, three lobed, style thread form erect, 

 the length of the stamina, stigma sharp, two cleft. Limiala 

 arbor. Rumph. 1. p. 44. t. 9. is said to represent it. But, in 

 all the specimens I have seen the spadices of the fructification, 

 rise much higher than the leaves, whereas the contrary ap- 

 pears in the figure of Rumphius. The tree is very common 

 on the Island. 



DIGYNIA. 



Oryza. 



Oryza saliva, Rice. Bras. Mai. 



Of this there are, as in Cochinchina and other eastern 

 countries, two principle varieties, one growing in low watery 

 ground, (Gaga) and the other on the sides of the hills (Sawa). 

 As the seeds of the one cannot be successfully cultivated in 

 situations adapted to the other, they are probably distinct 

 species, though their distinguishing marks have not been 

 hitherto discovered. 



TRIGYNIA. 



Flagellaria. 



Flagellaria indica, Willd. 2, p. 263. In hedges by the 

 road side : Flowers in July. 



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