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intoxicating power ; from the same fruit is prepared a kind of spurious 
Catechu. Ihid. 1. 65. It seems to me however doubtful whether the intoxi- 
cating effect of the Betel nut is not owing to the Piper leaf in which it is 
wrapped when eaten, rather than to any special property of its own. The 
Brazilian Indians, especially the Puris, Patachos, and Botocudos, manufac- 
ture their best bows from the wood of a species of Cocoa Nut, called the Airi, 
or Brejeuba. Pr. Max. Trav. 238. The Ceroxylon andicola, or Wax Palm of 
Humboldt, has its trunk covered by a coating of wax, which exudes from the 
spaces between the insertion of the leaves. It is, according to Vauquelin, a 
concrete inflammable substance, consisting of l-3d wax and 2-3ds resin. It is 
a very remarkable fact, first noticed by Brown {Congo, 456.) that the plants of 
this order whose fruit affords oil belong to a tribe called by him Cocoinse, which 
are particularly characterised by the originally trilocular putamen having its 
cells when fertile perforated opposite the seat of the embryo, and when abor- 
tive indicated by foramina cseca. The dark-coloured inodorous and insipid 
resin, called Dragon’s Blood, is obtained in the eastern islands of the Indian 
Archipelago by wounding the Calamus Draco ; it is said to be of finer quality 
than that procured from Pterocarpus. 
The following are Von Martins’s sections of the tribe. {Programma, 
p. 7.) 
1. Sabalin.e. Spathes numerous, incomplete. Ovary 3-ceIled. Berry 
or drupe 1-3-seeded. 
2. CoKYPHiN^. Spathes numerous, incomplete. Pistils 3, cohering in- 
wardly, 1 only usually ripening. Berry or drupe many-seeded. 
3. Lepidocary^. Spathes numerous, incomplete. Flowers in catkins. 
Ovary 3-celled. Berry 1 -seeded, with a tessellated rind. 
4. Borasse^. Spathes many, incomplete. Flowers in catkins. Ovary 
3-celled. Berry or drupe 3 -seeded. 
5. Arecin^. Spathe none, or one or more, complete. Ovary 3-celled. 
Berry 1 -seeded. 
6. CocoiNJE. Spathe one, or several, complete. Ovary 3-celled. Drupe 
1-3-seeded. 
GENERA. 
§ 1, Sabalinae, Mart. § 3. Lepidocary^, § .5. ARECiNiE, Mart. 
Chamaedorea, W. 
Nunnezia, W. 
Nunnezharia, R.et P, 
Thrinax, L. fil. 
Sabal, Adans. 
Lieu ala, Rumf. 
§ 2. CORYPHINiE, 
Mart. 
Morenia, R. et P. 
Rhapis, L. fil. 
Chamaerops, L. 
Livistoma, R. Br. 
Gimbanga, Bl. 
Crypha, L. 
Taliera, Mart. 
Phoenix, L. 
Mart. 
Lepidocaryum, Mart. 
, Mauritia, L. fil. 
Calamus, L. 
Zalacca, Rumf. 
Ceratolobus, Bl. 
Sagus, Rumf. 
Metroxylon, Rottb. 
Raphia, Beauv. 
Nipa, Thunb. 
§ 4. Borasse.®, Mart. 
Borassus, L. 
Lontarus, Rumf. 
Lodoicea, Lab. 
Latania, Comm. 
Hyphaene, Gaertn. 
Cucifera, Del. 
Leopoldinia, Mart. 
Geonoma, W. 
Gynestum, Poit. 
Hyospathe, Mart. 
Ptychosperma, Lab. 
Kunthia, Humb. 
Areca, L. 
CEnocarpus, Martins. 
Euterpe, Gaertn. 
Seaforthia, R.Br. 
Iriartea, R. et P. 
Wallichia, Roxb. 
Caryota, L. 
§ 6. CocoiNiE, Mart. 
Syagrus, Mart. 
Elate, Ait. 
Cocos, L. 
Jubaea, Humb. 
Maximiliana, Mart. 
Diplothemium, Mart. 
Desmoncus, Mart. 
Bactris, Jacq. 
Gulielma, Mart. 
Martinezia, R. et P. 
Elaeis, Jacq. 
Alphonsia, H. B. K. 
Acrocomia, Mart. 
Astrocaryum, Meyer. 
Attalea, Humb. 
Areng, Lab. 
Gomutus, Rumf. 
Manicaria, Gaertn. 
Pilophora, Jacq. 
Ceroxylon, Humb. 
Aiphanes, W. 
Oreodoxa, W. 
Bentinckia, Roxb. 
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