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The rest as in the generic character. Found on the hill. 

 Flowers in January. 



MONOECIA— MONANDEIA. 

 Nipa, Gen. PL Schr. N : 1698. 



Nipa fruticans, Gmel. 2, p. 12. Eumph. 1, 72, t. 16. 



Each spath of male flowers, which grows alternately on 

 strong semi-cylindrical peduncles, contains from six to twelve 

 partial ones. Every one of these contains a simple amentum, 

 covered with sessile male florets, closely compacted together. 

 The petals are as described by Schreber ; but filament hardly 

 any. Anther columnar, twelve furrowed, the length of the 

 petals. Femaleflowers, only one spath, terminating the branch. 

 Florets as described by Thunberg and Schreber. Drupes 

 aggregate, forming nearly a globular head. The horizontal 

 section of each drupe is nearly oval, with two projecting angles 

 at the two ends of the longer axis, twelve longitudinal furrows 

 on the surface. The pulp, fibrous, woody, porous. Nut shell 

 thin, moderately hard. Seed or kernel, resembles the cocoanut 

 in substance, is nearly tasteless, and would probably furnish 

 plenty of oil. 



The leaves, called Atup, are used for thatching. 



Casuarina, Schreb. N. 1395. 



Casuarina equisetifolia, Gmel. 2, p. 13. Casuarina littorea. 

 Humph. 3, t. 57. 



A good many trees, close to the sea, near Poolo Ticoos. 

 (No doubt indigenous, as early as this, but the wild plants 

 seem to have quite disappeared now). 



Artocarpus. 



1. Artocarpus incisa, Gmel. 2, p. 14. B. fructu seminifero. 

 Sonner. New Guin. t. 57-60. 



Some pretty large trees about houses in George Town. 

 I do not know whence they came. 



R. A. Soc, No. 53, 1909 



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