410 CLXIII. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Pinanya. 
i io wi :lothed 
12-24 by 3-lin. Spathe simple. Spadix with the branches stout, densely c 
with imbricating flowers. Mate ft. sepals subulate, petals rather longer, gor 
tips tapering ; stamens very numerous; filaments very short ; pistillode | : e d 
sepals reniform ; petals similar; staminodes 6, clavate, tips penicillate. 
about 4-3 in. long by 4 in. diam. 
12, P. malaiana, Scheff. in Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii, Hi 
stem slender, leaves pinnate, leaflets numerous linear acuminate, glavon 
beneath 2-nerved, upper confluent, spadix refracted branches ' about 
sepals lanceolate acuminate much smaller than the petals, stamens $ ul 
40, fruit ovoid. Bece. Males. iii. 197. Areca hematocarpa, Griff. N al. 
ii. 165; Palms Brit. Ind. 153. A. malaiana, Griff. in Calc. Journ fart 
Hist. v. 457; Palms Brit. Ind. 252, t. 230 C. Seaforthia malaiana, - l 90. 
Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 184, Ed. 2,183, 313, t. 158, GEI Kunth Enum. ui 
Ptychosperma malaiana, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 23; de Palm. 
Ind, 23. a +e Collector 
Matacca, Griff. PENANG, Herb. Hort. Calc. (3190). Perak, King's Co 
(8120).—Disrris. Sumatra. 5-8 ft. long, 
Stem 8-12 ft., $-1 in. diam., internodes generally subclavate. Leaves Séien 
spreading ; leaflets 1}-2 ft. by 4-% in., finely acuminate, upper cuneate Piate, 
lobes præmorse; petiole 1}-14 ft.; sheath as long. Spathe 10 in., b H fat, 
Spadiz 6 in., blood red in fruit; branches 3-5, flowers crowded. Ma Tech 
sepals membranous, lanceolate ; petals much larger; filaments very short. " rii, 
sepals and petals very short ; staminodes 0; stigma discoid. Fruit 1-1} "A about 
narrowed at both ends, blackish purple, mamillate. Seed ovoid, rap 
T-branched ; albumen deeply ruminate. 
13. P. pectinata, Becc. mss. ; stems 7-15 ft., coespitose, robust, p 
numerous elongate acuminate 1—5-ribbed straight much contracted hort 
base, glaucous beneath, spadix with 3-9 short branches, male calyx $ 
than the petals, fruit elongate ovoid tipped with the conical stigma. 
Perak, King’s Collector ; Goping, alt. 5800 ft. (n. 4393). . ^n wi 
Stems 21-31 in. diam. Leaver 24 ft.; leaflets O16 by 13-13 in. Spadia wi 
branches 4-5 in. long. Fruit ee in. long by 32-335 diam. Seed ovoid, 
base truncate.—Fruit much smaller than in P. malaiana. 
“oss 
14. P. perakensis, Becc. Males. iii. 175; stems short SL, 
internodes sbort the upper scurfy, leaves long-potioled, leaflets hort 
stiff straight linear or ensiform acuminate l-2-costate, spadix s 1 fruit 
digitately 5-7-branched, male calyx much shorter than the petals, 
ovoid or oblong crowned with the minute stigma. 
PERAK; alt. 1200-1500 ft., Scortechini, on Maxwell hill, Wray. . sated 
Stems 3-4 ft. by 2-3in. diam. Leaves 2-2} ft. ; leaflets 18-20 by 3- Lin» sheath 
at an angle of 45°, bright green, paler beneath ; petiole 10-12 in., terete 3-keeled. 
8 in, squamulose; ligule 3-1} in. Spa'he elliptic-oblong, apiculate, bremote, 
Spadiz 46 in., shortly peduncled; branches compressed ; flowers su . sepals 
2-seriate. Male fl. calyx 3-toothed; stamens numerous. Fem. fl. globos: black 
and petals similar; stigma capitellate. Fruit 4 long by ée in. diam., Deag 
Seed conform to the fruit, raphe simply branched; albumen densely ruminate 
iole 
15. P. Hookeriana, Becc. Males. iii. 141; stem slender, Geen 
and rachis of leaves scurfy, leaflets numerous narrowly linear-lan? 
subfalcate acuminate 2—3-costate, spadix witha slender peduncle rtf sol 
slender branches, male calyx much shorter than the petals, ar eup 
] i ) 
apiculate. Arecæ sp. Grif. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 462, 1n D 
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