408 CLXIIL PALMER. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [ Pinanga. 
5. P. robusta, Becc. mss.; stem taller and much more robust than 
P. polymorpha, 15-20 ft. high by 14-2 in. diam., leaves 15-2 it long, 
petiole and costa of blade nearly as thick as the little finger, spadix an 
its branches very stout. o, 
MALAY PENINSULA; Perak, on the top of Gunong Booboo, alt. 3-5300 ft. King's 
Collector (No. 7372). . . -ont for a fuller 
Evidently allied to P. polymorpha, but the specimens are insufficient for à 
description. 
6. P. Scortechini, Becc. Males iii. 170; stem solitary, young intor, 
nodes scurfy, leaves pinnatifid, leatlets distant long narrow, petiole oe 
slender, branches of spadix 5-6 ascending digitate, flowers spirà y 
arranged in 4-series, fruit ovoid or obovoidly-oblong. 
MALAY PENINSULA ; Perak, Scortechini, alt. 3000-4000 ft., King’s Collectors 
Stem 6-15 ft, 3-li in. diam. Leaves 3—4 ft. long; sheaths scurfy ; gien 
numerous, l-lj ft. by l-l} in., rather rigid, 2—5-ribbed, finely acumina " ed 
hardly narrowed. Spathe elliptic-oblong. Spadia stoutly peduncled, depr Male 
$-14 in. long, with a large triangular deciduous bract ; branches 24-4 in. DE f. 
ji. sepals triangular, cuspidate, petals rather longer acuminate. Sepals A in “tip 
cuspidate, ciliolate; petals rather larger. Fruit 2 in. long, black, shining, 
rounded or subacute; albumen densely ruminate. 
. ‘ „dix or its 
B. OnrHOsTICHANTHEX, Becc. Flowers in 2 series on the spadix 0 
branches. 
* Leaves entire or sparingly divided. 
7. P. disticha, Blume (fid. H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. sien 
very slender short, leaves small cuneately obovate simple and. is 
forked or with a few broad lateral leaflets, spadix small simple re gn 
villous, male petals much longer than the calyx, fruit ovoid or "o, 
acuminate. Becc. Males. iii. 193. P. bicolor, Blume in Bull. Noor Sicha, 
65; Rumphia, ii. 92, t. 113, f. 2; Kunth Enum. iii. 641. Areca om y 
Rech, Fl. Ind. iii. 620; Griff. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 461 (partly Mr 
descript. & local.); Palms Brit. India 155 (partly). A. humilis, pd 
pict. ined. Areca curvata, Griff. Ic. Pl. Ind. Or. t. 248 (non ne 1 
164.) Seaforthia disticha, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 184; Kunth t "Tourn. 
Ptychosperma disticha, Mig. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 28 et Suppl. 293. 590; 
Bot. Néerl. i. 7; De Palm. Arec. 24, Nos 
PENANG, Roaburgh, Curtis (No. 391) ; Perak alt. 100-800 ft. Herb. Cale. ( 
2536, 4423.) d many- 
Stems 2-6 ft. by 1-1 in. usually tufted. Leaves 12-15 in., forked, an 
nerved, the nerves ending in setaceous points, or with a few unequa p petiole 
lateral leaflets inserted by a broad base; sheath closely grooved and short long. 
scurfy. Spadix 2-3 in. long. Stamens about 15, pistillode 0. Fruit i men ace 
narrowed at both ends, but most so above, orange-red. Seed ovoid ; 1 t 
cording to Roxburgh’s description, and his drawing (copied by Griffit ’ k — he 
solid, but there are a few streaks of rumination in No, 4423 from Fon" 
leaves are often mottled with pale yellow green. 
s 
8. P. subruminata, Becc. Males. iii. 174, stem very slender, lorod, 
cuneately obovate forked, lobes truncate doubly-toothec 12-1 ing 
petiole long slender, sheath deeply closely grooved, spadix per nches 
sheath of the old leaf very short reflexed bipartite glabrous, ra 
flexuous, fruit narrowly ovoid or ellipsoid apiculate. King’s 
MALAY PENINSULA; Perak, alt. 100 ft., Herb. Calcutt. (No. 7797); 
Collector (No. 1968).  PeNANe, alt. 1500-2000 ft., King's Collector. 
