HYPHAENE thebaica
IV. H Y P H A E N E.
GAERTN. F ru c t Sem. I. p. 28. t . 18. II. p. 13.. t. 82. LIN. Gen. plant, e d it SPRENG. p. 284. n. 1470. ENDL. Gen. n. 1748. MEISN. Gen.
p. '357. (266.) — ’ Cucifera DELILE Descr. de l’Egypt. H is t N a t' n . t 1 . 2 ..'r - Douma ' POIR. Encycl. Snppl. IL p. 519. Illustr. t. 900.
DIOECA. S padix vaginatus s pa t iiis incompletis vagis, distiche ramosus. A in cu t a cylindrica e coalitioae squama-
rum imbricatarum. MASC. F lores intra foveas b in i , tandem emcrgentes. Calvx tubuloso - cainpanulatus,| tripartii us.
C orolla tripetala substipitata, limbo patulo. S tamina sex, antheris linearibus, basi sagittata afltxis. Pistilli rudimentum
nullum. FOEM. solitarii; calvx et corolla tripetala, margine imbricata. S tamina sex cassa. O varium triloculare (rarius
biloculare), stigmatibus totidem sessilibus. Drupa aut abortu simplex, aut loculis tribus vel iluobus evolutis profunde
triloba vel biloba, sa re o c a rp io fibroso, pu tam ia e ligneo vertice foramine per sarcocarpium obi tiralo. Albumen cor-
neum, aequabile rarius ve ruminatuin, cavum. E mbryo vcrticalis.
. Ca v d e x a n n u la tu s , h a n d i ta p ro c e ru s , in qu ib u sd am d ich o tom e-ram o su s ! F r o n d e s tn ram is te rm in a te s, palm a lo -fla b e l-
lifo n n e s , J ilis in te r la c in ia s p le rum q u e interje c ti s . S p a d jc e s in te r fr o n d e s e rump én te s, m a scu li in ram is sin g u lis am en ta su b t
e m a f e r e n t e s , J b em in e i ple rumq u e p a u c io ra . F lo r e s J la ro -p a llid i a u t ru b ello-ochroleuci. F r u c t u s lute sc en ti-Ju sci, ma ju scu li.
I . HYPHÀENE THEBAIC A. Tab. 1 3 1 . 13 2 . 13 3 .
H . ca u d ice p le rumq u e d ic liotomo; p e lio lis a rm a tis , lig u la s e r r u la ta ; am en ti m a s c u li sq u am is p r a e te r zo n am medium
tom e n to sam g la b r is ; fr u c l ib u s se s s ilib u s , o v a tis , ob o va tis a u t obsolete su b tr ig o n is , v e r tic e dep ressiu scu lo - r o tu n d a tis , b in e
la tiu scu lo s u l c o s e m i n e o vato.
KotS. vel Komuoqtópov, Theophrast Ilist. PI. L. I. c. 10. 5. L. II. c.. 6. 10. L. IV. c. 7. 7. Sprengel Theophr. Naturgescli. Obera, u.
crlaut. IL p. 49. 133. Billerbeck Flora classica p. 230. . Kqutef, Hesych. e d it Alberti II. p. 293., linde 'PùXXa turni'va, quae,
inoliente Gesnero, rectius leguntur uotmva, Arrian. Peripl. Erythr. e d it Uuds. Geogr. min. p. 19. -7- . Cucì, Plin. H is t L.XI1I.
c. 9. — CuciopAoron, Angttillara Semplice 1561. p. 70. — Cuciophera, Matthiol. Comment in Dioscor. 1565. L. I. c. 125.
p. 220. cttm icone frnctns p. 225. Joach. Camerar. Epitome Matth. de plant. 1586. p. 129. KrSuterbuch Manli, edit. Camer.
1586. c. ic. fru c t r e p e t; e d it Verzascha 1678. p. 90. c. ic. ead., e d it Zwinger 1696. p. 68. item. — Bdellii fru c tu s Cori uso,
Dalech. 1586. p. 1782, c. ic. repet. (excludenda Persea americana Clttsii, Dalech. p. 1828., a nonnullis Ime ducta). — Cucio-
f e r a Matthioli, Dalech. Append, p . 8., ic. niclior. —■ Cortusì fru c tu s, cerius Cuci fru c tu s nux interior, Cltts. E x o t 1605. p. 160.
Icon seminis. — Palma, citjus fru c tu s Cuci, C. Bauli. Pin. 1623. p. 509. XII. Mentz. Ind. 1682. p. 227. — Cuciofera, J. Bauli.
H is t I . p. 388* c. ic. fructus e t nuclei. Tabernaem. KrSuterb. 1687. • p. 1333. c- ic. repet. Becher Parn. med. 1663. p. 100.
i t Rai. Hist, II. p. 1365. n. 20. — Palma« fa c ie, Cuciophora, Chabr. Sciagr. 1666. p. 26. i t —jj Chamaeriphes, arabice Doom,
Shaw Voy. U. Spec, phytogr. afric. p. 106. n. 143. Dome, Pococke Iter. I. p. 281. t. 73. Sonnini Voy. III. 116. rei. Domò,
fru c tu s incertus, Hasselquist Resa p. 439. Edit. germ. p. 576. — CorypAa umbraculifera e t Borassus flabelltformis, Forak. FJor.
Aeg. p. cxxviii.
CORYPBA TllEBAIC A, Lin. Spec, p la n t edit. 2. 1763. p. 1657. Schreher in nota ad Pococke Reise e d it germ. 2. I. p. 120. 307.
CUCIFERA TUEBAICA, Delile Descr. de 1’Egypte. Part. d’Hist. natur. II. p. 57. t 1. 2. Dicdonaire d’Hist. n a t Vol. XIII. 1819.'
p. 472. c. icone. — Palma thebaica, Jacq. Fragm. p. 83. 1 133. spadix frucdfer; — Cfr. Sacy Chrcstom. arab. III. 468. 479: '
DOUMA THEBAICA, Poir. in Encycl. Suppl. II. 519. e t DOUMA frondibus palmatis, caule ramisque b fu rc a tis , Illustr. t. 900.- et-
Duhamel Trai té dcs Arbres, edit. 2. IV. p. 47. t 4. n. 1. e t 2. e Delile repetita, adscripto nomine Phoenicia dactyliferac.
H YPHAENE CUCIFERA, Pera. Ench. II. p. 2245.
HYPHAENE O U IN EEN S IS , Thonning, Schumacher in K. Danske Vidensk. natury. og math. Afhandl. IV. 1829., p. 219. Bulletin
Univ. des Scienc. nat. 1831. Vol. XXIV. p. 330. nullis characteribns essentialibns a stirpe aegyptiaca e t arabica dilfere videtur.
Radicularum moles conica, plerumque in arena sepulta. Cauoex teres, ambitn 3 ped., credits, 10 — 30 ped.
altus, cicatricibus frondium horizontalibus insculptus, saepe simplex, interdum apice dichotomia bis, ter quaterve repetita
divisus, ramificatione non undique, sed in parielis formain amplificatus; dum simplex comam depresso-globosam, dum
ramosus compressam dilata lam exhibens. Rimi caudici similes, vix tenuiores. Frondes in quovis ramo 20— 30 termi-
nales, exteriores deflexae vel patentcs, interiores surrectae, computato petiolo 6 — 7-pedales. P e t io lu s supra b a s in
v a g in a n tem triangularis, dein linearis, inferne convexus, superne postice planiusculus, antice leviter bifacialis, in margine
acuto aculeis robustis contpressis uncinatis fuscis. Tomentum ferrugineum, e squamu.lis planis flexuosis, petiolo ad-
spersuin, detergibile. L ig u l a super petiolum promittitur triangularis, margine elevato, actileato-serrato. L am in a cir-
cumscriptiQne suborbiculari vel ovato-orbiculari, palmato-flabelliformis, saturate viridis, subtus pallidior, laciniis 20 pluri-
busve lineari-lanceolatis acuminatis, induplicalis, basi in facie prona complicato-connexis, ad '/, vel’ / t bifidis. Lac i n ia e late-
rales lJ7a-ped., 1 poll, latae, nervo commissurali 1% ped. longo connexae; intimae 2%—3 ped. longae, 2 poll, latae, nervo
pedali et longiorc cohaerentes. Fibrae ex apice calloso nervorum commissuralium tenerne, filiformes, pendulae, saepe
lacinias longitudine aequantes, flexiles attamen firmnlae, fuscae et tomento fusco interdum adspersae. N e rv i p r im a r ii
robusti, superne concavi, inferne acute bifaciales valde prominent, ad divisionem Iaciniarum usque recta’ procurrentes,
dein alterutram lacinularum marginantes et saepe in frondibus vetustioribus ab ejus parcnchymate discissi atque soluti.'
N e rv i s e c u n d a r i i approximati, frequentes, compagem frondis firmam rigidamqtie eificientes. Squamulac minimae.
elliplicae valde appressae, fuscae, utrinque nervis secundariis adspersae. S padix MASC. inter frondes 4-pedalis, primum
erectus, dein patens; basi crassitie 1 — 2 poll., teres, lotus spatiiis incompletis vaginatus. S pathae fere cylindricae. vel
sursum ampliarne et oblique apertae, 3 et 4 poli, longae, infimae vacuae, crasso - membranaccae, dorso et lateribus ner-
vosae et sulcatae, venire tenuiorcs, nervis decussantibus ibique apice tandem fissae, ante anihesin viresccntes, demuitt
griseo-cinerascentes, intus nitidae et pallide castaneae, versus orificiura in nervis adspersae squamulis fuscis, quae per
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