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only one seed. The compiler of the Supplement to the 
Encyclopedic (i. 140), with his usual candour and judg- 
ment, has abandoned this plant of Loureiro, at least as 
being the same with the Pinanga sylvestrls saxatilis, and 
adopts the name Areca humilis of Willdenow. 
Caput VIII. 
Saribus, p. 42, t. 8. 
This is the Corypha rotundifolia of the Encyclopedic 
(ii. 131), and of Willdenow (Sp. PL ii. 201) ; but its be- 
longing to the genus Corypha is extremely doubtful, and 
rests entirely on the comparison which Rumphius draws 
between it and the Codda Pana of the Hortus Malabricus, 
— quae quoad folia magnam cum Saribo nostra habet 
convenientiam — verum tantum differt, ut diversa sit ha- 
benda species,'' (44). The Saribus is therefore as likely to 
be a Chamaerops or Rhapis, and still more likely to be a 
Licualia than a Corypha. I cannot, indeed, help wonder- 
ing, that Gaertner (De Sem. i. 18) should have confounded 
it as a species with the Codda pana of the Hortus Mala- 
baricus. This renders what he says concerning the fruit of 
the Corypha quite uncertain, as no one can tell whether he 
described the fruit of the Codda pana, or that of the Sari- 
bus ; yet I suspect that most of the recent generic charac- 
ters given of the Corypha are derived from this uncertain 
source. 
Limalia arbor, p. 44, t. 9. 
The authors of the Encyclopedic (ii. 201 ) called this at 
first the Corypha licualia, and it has perhaps as good a 
claim to remain in that genus as the Saribus ; but Thun- 
berg has made it a distinct genus ; and it is now the Li- 
cuaha spifiosa of Willdenow (Sp. PI. ii. 201), a name 
