168 MISS L. S. GIBBS ON THE FLORA AND PLANT FORMATIONS 
PALMACEA. (O. Beccart.) 
Caryora MITIS, Lour. Fl. Cochinch. 569. 
Tenom, 700—900', foothills and river banks, general in sec. forest. Fl. Fr. 
(young), Jan. 2698. 
Distrib. Malay Peninsula, Java ; Sudan and Coco Islands, Indo-China. 
ARECA Catecut, Linn. Sp. Pl. 1189. 
Tuaran, 500’, in “ campongs," old * kebuns," and in sec. forest. Cultivated 
throughout the country. Fl. Fr. March. 4305. 
Distrib. Borneo (Sarawak). Throughout Malaya, China, Indo-China, and 
India. 
*PINANGA CAPITATA, Deec.,`sp. nov. 
Cireiter 2 m. alta, caudice solitario cylindrico crebre annulato, frondibus 
ad apicem confertis. Frondium vagine exteriores longitudinaliter in ventre 
fissee, interiores tubulose, omnes in capitulum congeste ; vagine 15 em. 
longæ, fortiter striate ; ligula lacero-fibrosa ; petiolus brevis (4 cm. long.) ; 
lamina brevis (37 cm. longa, 15 em. lata in specimine uno), cireumscriptione 
oblonga, regulariter pinnata, segmentis utrinque 9 et duobus apicalibus, 
rigide chartaceis, lateralibus sequidistantibus lanceolatis rectis basi paullo 
attenuatis superne acuminatis plicato-2-3-costulatis 15-18 em. longis 
1:5-2 em. latis, terminalibus basi unitis paullo latioribus 5—06-costulatis. 
Spadix fructifer erectus, unacum parte pedicellari (2 em. longa) circiter 12 em. 
longus, in 8-9 ramulos alternos sparsos sinuosos divisus. Fructus distichi, 11— 
12 mm. longi, 7 mm. lati, ovato-elliptici vel subobovati, in vertice rotundati et 
stigmatum residuis sessilibus punctiformibus coronati. Semen obovatum, 
superne rotundatum, basi arillo parvo preditum, areola embryonali laterali 
supra basin locata, rapheos ramis paucis ascendentibus laxissime anastomo- 
santibus. Perianthium fructiferum cupulare, in ore paullo ampliatum, 
divisionibus rotundatis in margine ciliolatis et in medio minime apiculatis. 
Hab. Kinabalu, Pakapaka, and on the way up to, 8000-10,000', in mossy 
forest. Feb. 4219. 
Species insignis, frondium vaginis fere in capitulum congestis et semine 
arillo minuto preedito preecipue distincta. 
*PINANGA GIBBSIANA, Bece., sp. nov. 
Mediocris, gregaria. Frondium pars pinnifera 1:5 m. longa; segmenta 
numerosa, æquidistantia, rigidula, utrinque glabra, subtus pallidiora, lateralia 
leviter sigmoidea, marginibus parallelis, 40-45 em. longa, 2-2°5 cm. lata, 
2-costulata et plicato-bisuleata ; segmenta 2 terminalia basi confluentia, 
majora, plurieostulata. Spadiv fructifer deflexus, parte pedicellari brevis- 
sima, in ramulos plurimos sparsos divisus, ramulis compressis 10-15 em. 
