406 CLXIII. PALME. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Areca. 
confluent, quite glabrous. Spathe glabrous, compressed. Spadia much branched, 
rachis stout compressed, branches with filiform tips bearing more or less distichous 
minute male fl, Fem. fl. solitary at the bases and axils of the branches ; sepals 
i in, ovate, obtuse; petals subsimilar; staminodes 6, connate. Fruit 14-2 in., 
smooth, orange or scarlet.—Betel nut. 
2. A. concinna, Ta. Enum. 328; hexandrous, trunk short slender, 
fruit subfusiform. 
Crrton, Reigam and Pasdoon Corles, Thwaites. 
Trunk 8-12 ft., 143-13 in. diam., green. Leaves about 7, 3-34 ft. long, sub- 
glabrous, leaflets 2 ft. long. Spadiz and flowers as in A. Catechu. Fruit 1} in. 
long, umbonate, reddish yellow. 
3. A. nagensis, Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 156 ; Palms Brit. 
Ind. 149 ; triandrous, trunk tall, fruit narrowly ovoid. ` 
Assam, in the Naga hills, Jenkins. 
Trunk 30-40 ft. Leaves 7 ft.; leaflets 19-20 in. Spadim 1 ft., branches stout, 
flexuose. Fruit 1 in., narrowed at both ends.—Description from Griffith, who 
states that the leaves were imperfect and open to doubt from their resemblance to 
A. gracilis (Pinanga gracilis). 
4. A. triandra, Roxb. Hort. Beng. 68; Fl. Ind. iii. 617; triandrous, 
stems tufted slender, fruit ellipsoid. Ham. in Mem. Wern. Soc. v. 310; 
Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. t. 149; Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 154; 
Palms Brit. Ind. 148, t 230 A.; Kurz For. Fl. ii. 537. 
CHITTAGONG, MaRTABAN, TENASSERIM, the ANDAMAN ISLANDS, and the 
MALAYAN PENINSULA. 
Stems 12-25 ft. by 1-1} in. diam., green, sendiug out basal offshoots. Leaves 
4-6 ft. ; petiole slender; leaflets 1}-3 ft., lateral sometimes as well as the terminal 
confluent. Spathe 1 foot or more. Spadia and flowers as in A. Catechu, but 
triandrous, Fruit the size of an olive, orange-colrd., at length scarlet, tip truncate. 
2. PINANGA, Blume. 
Stem erect, annulate. Leaves pinnate with the upper leaflets con- 
fluent. Spadices infrafoliar, androgynous; spathe solitary ; flowers 
together (a fem. between 2 males) clusters in 2-4 or 6 series. Matt FL. 
obliquely triqgetrous; sepals acute, keeled, not imbricate; petals ovate or 
lanceolate, valvate ; stamens 6 or more, anthers subsessile, basifixed, erect: 
Fem. FL. much smaller, ovoid or globose; sepals and petals orbicnlar, 
broadly imbricate; ovary l-celled, stigmas 3; ovule basilar erect. Fru 
ovoid or ellipsoid, pericarp fibrous, Albumen ruminate ; embryo basilar.— 
Species about 24, tropical Asiatic and Malayan. 
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A. SerRANTIEX, Bece. Flowers in 3 or more spiral series on the spadi 
or its branches. 
l. P. hexasticha, Schef. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz.i. 1485 SUN 
petiole scaly, spadix simple re Ann, 
male fl. in 5-6 series, fruit fusiform. Kurz For. Fl. u. 539; Bece. ^7. 
Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 80, 86; Males. iii. 122. Areca hexasticha, Kurz ` 
PEGU ; in marshy forests, Kurz, 
Stems 25-30 ft. by 1j in. diam. Lea tiole scaly ; 
. . Leaves 3-5 ft., sheaths and short pe À 
leaflets 1-1} ft, many, narrow, linear, subfalcate, 2-3-ribbed, lower acuminate 
