. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. iaiThcea and immatme fruit is reputed emmenagogue.—Humh. 1. c. I.— Pandanece. Leavessimple. Flowers naked. Pandanus, Linn. , , Forsk. Marquartia, , Gaudich GENERA. Flowers usuallj fur-nished with a caJyx. II. - Cyclanthece. LeavesflabeUate or pinnate. Carludovica,if!< j^ etPaiLiidovia, , Willd. Nipa, , Poit. Cyclosanthes, , Popp. Numbers. Gen. Sp. 7. Position.—Araceae.—Pandan
. The vegetable kingdom : or, The structure, classification, and uses of plants, illustrated upon the natural system. iaiThcea and immatme fruit is reputed emmenagogue.—Humh. 1. c. I.— Pandanece. Leavessimple. Flowers naked. Pandanus, Linn. , , Forsk. Marquartia, , Gaudich GENERA. Flowers usuallj fur-nished with a caJyx. II. - Cyclanthece. LeavesflabeUate or pinnate. Carludovica,if!< j^ etPaiLiidovia, , Willd. Nipa, , Poit. Cyclosanthes, , Popp. Numbers. Gen. Sp. 7. Position.—Araceae.—Pandanace^.— En DOG ENS.] PALM ALES. 133 Alliance IX. PALM ALE S.—Tm:. Palmal Alliance. DikQUO&i?,.—Unisexual {or bisexual) Endogem, with perfect flowers^ seated on a branchedscaly spadix, am,d a minute embryo lodged beloiv the surface of horny or fleshy albumen. At this point the vegetative force of Endogens acquii-es its maximum power, resultingfor the most part in trees of gigantic stature, always formmg wood, and occasionally, arriving at dimensions wholly un- ^Iv^S^H^ \l?^^. atknown among other plants, as in theinstance of some of the Calami orRotangs, which Rumphius assuresus are sometimes as much as 1200or even 1800 feet long, {Rumphitty2. 158.) A WTiter in the Liunsea,(14. 263) asserts that Palms arenearer Arads than to any otherorder of Endogens, and 1 think himso right that I should have followedMeisner in including Palms in theAral alhance, if it had not been fortheir perfect floral envelopes, theuniformly indeterminate station oftheii embryo, and the tendency thatexists among them to form § flow-ers ; which circumstances bring themclose upon Lily worts, and seem to in-dicate a higher organ of organizationthan we find among the incomplete,flowered, constantly $ $ Aral general opinion of Botanistsseems to be m favour of regardingPalms as one natural order, an opi-nion to which it does not seem atpresent desirable to object. It m
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