Pinanga.] CXLIII, PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 409 
Stem 2-6 ft. by } in.; internodes 2-24 in., brown-scurfy. Leaves 9-12 by 
4-5} in., glabrous; petiole 6-10 in., subterete; sheath 4 in., tubular, scurfy ; 
ligule scarious, fimbriate. Spadiz with its stout peduncle $ in. long, branches 
sinuous, few-fld. Fruit about 4 by } in., red. Seed narrowed at the tip; raphe 
with 5 branches ; albumen very faintly ruminate. 
** Leaves much divided. 
t Spadix large, much branched. 
NICOBAR IsLANDS, Man. SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLDS., Kurz. 
Trunk 50 ft. by 5} in. diam. Leaves 6} ft. ; leaflets ensiform, straight, longest 
(middle) about 30 ‘in. by 14-33 broad, 2-3-partite, pale beneath. Spadiz 19-20 in. 
long, Shortly peduncled, branches 45-50 spirally arranged ; flowers 2-seriate. Fruit 
16 PY ¥o-x%3 pericarp thin. Seed with reticulate raphe, albumen densely 
Tuminate, 
10. P. Kuhlii, Blume in Bull. Néerl. 1838, 65; Rumph. ii. 82, t. 111 
et 8 t. 111, f. 11-13; stems tufted slender, leaves pinnate, leaflets many 
aleate linear to linear-lanceolate finely acuminate strongly 2-3-ribbed 
Upper confluent, petiole subscurfy, spadix refracted shortly peduncled 
robust, simply branched glabrous, branches elongate, fruit obovoid or 
ellipsoid shortly apiculate. Kunth Enum. iii. 641; Mig. Pl. Jungh. 57 ; 
cheff. in Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 182; in Ann. Jard. Bot. 
Buitenz, 1.152; Becc. Males. iii. 198. P. costata, Bl. in Bull. Néerl. l. c. ; 
Rumphia 1. c. 80, t, 109 et 8 t. 109 C.; Kunth Le: Mig. L c. 1565 Kurz, 
For. EI. ii, 588, Seaforthia, Kuhlii, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. Ed. 2, 185, 
33, S. oryzæformis, Mart. l. c. Ed. 1, 185 (evel. all syns. but Gærtn.) ; 
Kunth 1, c. 191. S. costata, Mart. l. c. 313. Ptychosperma, Kuhlii, Miq. 
x Ind. Bat. iii. 21; De Palm. Archip. Ind. 28. P. costata, Mig. Ul. cc. 
5,23. Areca oryzeformis, Gertn. Fruct. i. 20, t. 7, f. 2, 6 (not of 
Rumph.), 
SourH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz.—D1stn1B. Sumatra, Java. 
Stem soboliferous, 20-30 ft. (Kurz), (10 ft., Becc.). Leaves 3-4 ft.; leaflets 
d +; petiole variable in length. Spadix 1 tt. Fruit nearly j in. long. Seed 
a herent to the pericarp; albumen deeply ruminate.—The above is chiefly from 
ée P. costata in For. Fl. It may be the P. coronata mentioned by Kurz in his 
Maman Report as abundant in the South Andaman Islands. 
TT Spadix with few distichous branches. 
IR? Dicksonii, Blume Rumph. ii. 85; trunk solitary tall. leaves 
Pnnate, leaflets numerous elongate broadly linear pramorse 5-7-nerved, 
sb Dermost confluent, spadix refracted branches 4-8, male sepals subulate 
mil equalling the petals, stamens 20-30, fruit ovoid or oblong. Scheff. 
M Natuurk, Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. 174; in Ann. Jard. Buitenz. 1. 149; Becc. 
mies. i. 138. “Areca Dieksonii, Roxb, Fl. Ind. iii. 616; Griffin Journ. As. 
Beng. v.458; Palms Brit. Ind. 153, t. 231. Seaforthia Dicksonii, 
Se Hist. Nat, Palm. iii. 184, 313; Kunth Enum. iii. 190. 
ESTERN GHATS . lghiri and Travancore hills, alt. 2500 ft. . 
Trunk 16-18 ft. by "bout. ue dein. Leaves 4 ft., forked ; leaflets sessile, 
