Pinanga.] CLXII. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 407 
Upper truncate, toothed. Spadix about 1 ft. long; rachis as thick as the finger, 
hy ; flowers sessile, rows spirally arranged. Fruit narrowed at the top. ` 
2. P. &£racilis, Blume, Rumph. ii. 77; stems slender usually gre- 
garious, leaves sparingly pinnate, petiole scurfy, spadix simple reflexed, 
male fi, in 3 rows, truiting spadix pendulous, fruit ellipsoidly fusiform. Kurz 
For, Fl ii. 538; Becc. in Ann. Jard. Bot, Buitenz. ii. 81, 86; Males. iii; 122. 
Pinanga patula B. gracilis, Scheff. in Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 178. 
Seaforthia gracilis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 185 (Ed. 2, 184) 313; 
Kunth Enum. iii. 191. Areca gracilis, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii. 619; Griff. w 
Cale, Journ, Nat. Hist. v. 460; Palms Brit. Ind. 154, t. 232 A, C, f. 2 
(not B) Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 201. T. Anders. in Journ. 
Lim. Soc. xi. 5. Nenga gracilis, Becc. Males. i. 25. A. triandra, Roxb. ? 
Wall. Cat. 8599. 
SIKKIM and Buotan HIMALAYA, alt. 2-3000 ft., J.D.H. Assam, the Kuasa 
ILLS, and CHITTAGONG to TENASSERIM. Roaburgh, Sc. 
Stems 6-20 ft. by i-i in. diam., thickened upward. Leaves 3—4 ft.; petiole and 
ni ths seurfy ; leaflets inserted by a very broad base, 1 ft. long or more, lower 2-3- 
vii nely acuminate, upper 3-5 in. broad premorse many-ribbed, Spathe 
ane "Y, 2-fid. Spadix white or scarlet, glabrous. Male fl. broad, flat, imbricating ; 
e ‘x minute; petals broad, cuspisately acuminate. Fruit 4 in. long, scarlet or 
range, tapering to the tip, smooth. 
l k , P. Griffithii, Becc. Males. iii. 117; stem? leaves pinnatisect 
Tart’, numerous, spadix peduncled reflexed subdigitately branched, 
“anches 4 spreading, male calyx shorter than the petals, fruits spirally 
in De my in 4 series ovoid narrowed at the mamillate tip. Areca sp. Griff. 
B. "n ^. Journ, Nat. Hist. v. 461 (under A. gracilis, fruit only); Palms 
ni, Ind. 55, t. 232 (spadia only). 
Kuasa Hir; Griffith, l 
aa appareutly very slender, — Pedunele of spadiz 2 in., branches 3-5, spreading, 
compressed. Fruit rather more than A in. long by 4 diam., narrowed at the 
ounded hatte: pericarp thin, albumen deeply ruminate.— Beccari (Males. 1. c) hus 
M reran. P. Griffithii on the spadix with tetrastichous fruits described by Grif 1 h, 
are a the leaves (only supposed by the latter author to belong to it, and w ve i 
“M les and forked) to belong to another plant. In the diagnosis of P. Grip ui 
Pencil 4/2, Lei there is no description of the leaves, but the author has added in 
Plunatisect, segments nu nerous 3~many -costate.” 
not 
4. P. pol iii ; lender, leaves short 
We ymorpha, Becc. Males. iii. 172 ; stem slender, 
mbentire forked or more or less pinnatifid, petiole very slender, sheath 
bra Phere’ spadix slender refracted after flowering simple or 2-3-partite, 
es short, fl. 3~4-seriate, fruit small ellipsoid or obovoid subacute, 
ase narrowed, ^ 
) mer PENINSULA; Singapore, Lobb ; Perak, alt. 3—4000 ft., Scortechini (n. 345 
» King’s Collector (n. 8072). 
8-13 in, Var, 1- in. diam., internodes 21-4 i 
forked a ong, wit 1-6 many-costate leaflets on each side 
ong ^A petiole variable and sheath scaly. Spathe elliptic, 
d © nearly as long slender. Male fl. acuminate, ca l d 
aint 12; fem. fl. globose. Pratt 1 by f in., tipped by the stigma; black, 
deed (dark yellow King’s Collector) pericarp thin. Seed obovoid ; albumen 
ends, Y ruminate, The fruits in some specimens are ellipsoid and narrowed at bo h 
the shrink; With a thickened ring at abont j of their length below the tip, from 
n 
8 of the pericarp. 
n. long. Leaves very variable, 
h side and a broad flabelliform 
acute. Spadir 3—5 in. 
lyx shortly 3-toothed ; 
