THE HERBAHIUM AMBOINENSE. 323 
intra hilum albuminis immittens. Albumen semine conforme, 
oblique corapressum, obsolete sulcatum^ carnosum, album. 
Embryo oblonguS;, utrinque acutus, verticalis;, ex apice albumi- 
nis poris nonnuUis pertuso ramentis umbilicalibus contortupli- 
catis dependens. 
Obs. Quod ego emhri/onem vocavi, Brownius (Nov. Holl. i. 
S47) pro vitello embryonem includeiite habuit. 
Differt a C. circinali spadicibus foemininis profundius incisis, 
fructiferis erectis, incurvis. 
Olus calappoides, e Celebe cujiis fcemmiiia Lagago 
et masculina Patuka vocantur, p. 87 ; ut et ilia 
ex Iiisulis Ulasseriensibus, p. 89, t. 2!S et 23. 
The account of these plants given by Rumphius is not 
very distinct. He seems especially to have been uncertain 
whether or not the La2:o2:o and Patuka of Celebes were 
diiferent from the Olus calappoides figured in plates 20 
and 21, and in Amboina called Nuvei and Utta Nuer. 
Perhaps they are really the same, although, in the explana- 
tion (p. 91), tables 22 and 23 are referred to the Lagogo 
and Patuka. The explanation of the plates, however^ seems 
to have been written by Burman with little care; and it 
may be suspected that these two plates represent the palms 
which were brought to Rumphius from the Uhasser Islands. 
They, no doubt, represent the Todda panna of the Hortus 
Malabaricus, and are therefore justly quoted by Burman 
(Fl. Ind. 240), Willdenow (Sp. PI. iv. 844), Roxburgh 
(Hort. Beng. 71), and the Compilers of the Encyclopedic 
(ii. 23) > for the Cycas circinalis ; while the description 
given of the female spadix of the Olus calappoides (tables 
20 and 21) renders it certain that the latter figures repre- 
sent a totally different plant, notwithstanding the assertion 
of Loureiro (Enc. Meth. Supp. ii. 425). 
The Cycas circinalis is a very common plant in Malabar, 
and I suppose must have been mistaken for the Sagus ra~ 
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