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Title: Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Bombay Natural History Society
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Bombay, Bombay Natural History Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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esfrom the period of its falling from the tree before the nut begins togerminate. Button, hoM^ever, says, that it germinates four or fivemonths after falling from the tree, and sometimes even before.Thiselton-Dyer gives the following description: The germination morphologically is of an ordinary monocotyledonous type. Theapex of the cotyledon remains immersed in the endosperm anddevelops into a vast suctorial organ, while its petiole, which is aboutan inch in diameter, emerges from the nut carrying with it theplumule and radicle . According to Button, the petiole entersthe ground to the depth of about one or two feet, then continuesunderground nearly parallel to the surface for a distance of four,five, six feet, sometimes more. A note of General Gordons isthat it comes to sprout out of the ground twelve feet from nut.Mr. Button subsequently informed me that it runs in the ground, 1 Eiecollections of a happy life, II, 289.- Hobson-Jobson, 178. JoDRN. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Plate XLIII.
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A Double Coconut Palm (Lodoicea Seychellarum, Labill.) in fruit, growing on Praslin Island. THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 78 sometimes to a distance of several yards before coming to thesurface. (Tliiselton-Dyer). Fauvel draws the attention to an interesting fact which came tohis notice through Mr. R. Dupont, Director of the Botanic Stationof the Se3chelles. On examining a number of fruits one will discover that theyshow a distinct dimorphism (cf. fig. 28). Those which have a deepsinus in the middle of the two lobes (which gives them a nasty^appearance) are said to be female by the natives of the Seychelles,whilst those with two parallel lobes and not having a sinus arecalled male. The former are supposed to produce female trees, thelatter male.* J. Stanley Gardiner of the Exploring Mission Sealark, examinedover 300 nuts and found that both kinds of fruit are of about thesame number. Flowers.—Lindley and Moores Treasury of Botany, statesthat only 30 years after germination

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