. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . ^ convex scales. When looking exter-nally at these scales, a small aperture will be perceived, fromwhich the stamens issue; and this aperture, though near the base,is not in the centre of each scale, but constantly on one and thesame side ; and as the scale laps over with that side the one nextabove it, so the aperture and the stamens will be found to passthrough both. The flowers in subreniform clusters in hollows of JouEN. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Plate A Double Coconut Palm {Lodoicea Seychellarum, Labill.) in the Jungle of Praslin Island
. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society . ^ convex scales. When looking exter-nally at these scales, a small aperture will be perceived, fromwhich the stamens issue; and this aperture, though near the base,is not in the centre of each scale, but constantly on one and thesame side ; and as the scale laps over with that side the one nextabove it, so the aperture and the stamens will be found to passthrough both. The flowers in subreniform clusters in hollows of JouEN. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Plate A Double Coconut Palm {Lodoicea Seychellarum, Labill.) in the Jungle of Praslin Island. THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA A!sD CEYLON. 69 the axis, imbricated in two rows. Sepals and petals oblong,yellowish-brown ; the sepals rather larger and more angular thanthe inner. Filaments united at the base into one body ; antherslinear, 2-celled, opening longitudinally, each cell terminating intwo globular heads. Female spadix rising from the axils of theleaves, pendent, 2-4 feet long, thick and woolly, tortuose, clothedwith large sheathing, red-brown scales, which are singularlyfimbriated, or more general^ erose at the margin, and supportseveral, more or less distantly placed, female flowers of differentages, at the same time, and of various sizes. Sepals and petalsalmost hemispherical and 1 inch thick at the base; ovary almostconcealed by the perianth, broadly ovate, narrow at the base abovethe insertion of the perianth. As we had no opportunity of dissecting the fruit of this palmwe borrow the f
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