MONCECTA. MONADELPH. 1718— .720. 1581 
Fronil^! doubly pinnate; petioles of the leafets nodding; 
berries i-feeded. 
Cochinchina. Lour cochinch. 5C9. 
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1718. ARECA. Spatle 2-valvecl ; corol 3-petalled. 
Male. Filaments 9, the 3 oiiter-ones longer. 
Fem. Brupe with an imbricate calyx. 
Fronds pinnate, leafets revolutc, oppofite, end bitten: 
E:ift Indies. Btcukiv t. 3B7, Rumph. jtmb i. t. 4. 
Fronds pinnate ; leafets glabrous, 3-nerved. 
Eaft Indies. Rumfh. Amh. i-p. 40. t. 5. /I 3. 
Leafets quite entire: Cabbage- tret. 
Weft Indies. iStoan, Jam. s. tab. 215. 
The gr.en tops are cut and eaten as cabbage. 
J719. AMBROSINIA. Spathe i -leafed, feparated by 
a membranaceous partition, containing the Jla~ 
mina in the hinder cell and upper part of the 
partition, pijlils in the outer cell and lower part 
of the partition. 
Ambrofinia. 
Sicily, Bocc. Sic. t, z6 Moris. feSi. 13./. (o.f. iQ- 
Root tuberous: radicil, ovate, fliining. 
ORDER IX. MONADELPHIA. 
1720. PINUS. Male. Calyx a peltate fcale of t!ie 
ament : corol o ; anther ce growing to the leaks, 
fefllle. 
Fern. Calyx a 2. flowered fcale of the conet corol oi 
nuts 2 under each fcale, winged. 
A- Leaves numerous from the fame Jheathing bafe. firs. 
Feaves in pairs, rigid: younger cones pednncled, recurved, 
dependent: anthers with a minute crelt. Scotch fir, 
Woods. Lambert Pin t. i. Woodv.t 20^. Blackw, t igo. 
Feaves in pairs, abbreviated, flifF: cones ovate, obtufe, 
minute; the younger-ones feffile and ereft. 
South of Europe. Lambert- Pin t. 2. 1 u jn. 
Jree hardly 7 feet high : crefl of the antherce large, 2-lobea » 
female-ament never curved ; cones ovate, fmall. 
