Pinanga.] CLXII. PALMEH. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 411 
Kuasia Hiris; alt. 2-4000 ft., Grifith, J. D. H., Ze (in Herb. Webb.), 
Nunklow and Churra, Clarke. 
Stem 3-4 ft. ; internodes clavate, young scurfy. Leaves 43 ft. ; leaflets opposite, 
1ft, long, much obliquely acuminate, 3-4-keeled above, terminal lobe 2-fid ; petiole 
Sin, Spathe 4 in., oblong. Spadix 3-4 in.; branches compressed, flexuose, flowers 
crowded, Male jl. calyx membranous 3-toothed ; petals very unequal ; stamens about 
D ; pistillode 0. Fem. fl. sepals and petals subequal; staminodes 0; stigma large, 
scold. Fruit about 3 in. long by 4 diam., narrowed at the top. Seed of the same 
shape.—This is the plant alluded to by Griffith (Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. Le 462), 
and described as probably a form of A. gracilis collected by Major Jenkins and him- 
in the Khasia hills and Assam, and of which he says, in a footnote, ** Stem and 
aves much the same as in A. gracilis, spadices slenderer 3—4-times branched, fem. fl. 
tichous distant." The above is from Malesia. I have seen no specimen. 
ttt Spadiz unbranched, 
16. P. hymenospatha, Hook. f.; stem slender, petiole and rachis of 
leaves slender scurfy, leaflets very numerous falcately very narrowly 
ensiform finely acuminate unicostate, spadix very short, spathe fusiform 
te acuminate membranous, male fl. flat imbricate. 
Burma ; at Moulmein, Lobb. . 
Stem as thick as a goose-quill ; internodes long. Leaves 12-14 by 4-5 in.; 
eaflets 3-4 by 1-3 in., very numerous (15-20 pairs) quite regularly close set, alternate, 
fat, thin, dark green above and brownish beneath when dry, costa slender, pro- 
minent on both surfaces ; petiole 3 in., subterete; sheath 3—4 in., striate. Spathe 
m., ellipsoidly fusiform, erect, quite membranous, subhyaline. Spadix as long as 
spadix, flowering to the base. Male ft. closely imbricating, } in. diam., trapezoidly 
rbicular; dorsal sepals twice as long as the others, apiculate; stamens 9, unequal ; 
ments very short, anthers linear. Fem. fl. minute, globose; ovary ovoid, stigma 
buivinate, ovule erect.—A very distinct species remarkable for its membranous 
‘Pathe and very elegant foliage. 
l7. P, Paradoxa, Scheff. iw Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 31: 
stem slender, leaves entire or pinnatisect with few broad 3- or more- 
wed leaflets, spadix short decurved, frait very uarrow tapering from 
“ove the base to the obtuse tip often curvel. Becc. Vales. iti. 129, in 
r, Areca curvata, Grif. Notul. iii. 164, partly, as to the descr. 
ap Ic. Pl. Asiat. t. 248). A. paradoxa, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. 
463; Palms Brit. Ind. 156, as to descr. of fruit, and fig. of fruit, t. 
povi. C, f. ll. Kentia paradoxa, Mat Hist. Nat. Palms, 111, 312. 
doch, paradoxa, Bece. Males. i. 32. Ophiria pwadoxa, Becc. in Ann. 
ard. Bot. Buitenz, ii, 128. Cladosperma, N.G. Griff. Notul. iii. 165. 
Maut Age 3 foot of Mt. Ophir, Griffith. PERAK, alt. 3-4000 ft., Scortechini 
» 2413) ; on Gun 
; ong Batu, Wray. . 
enti ft., very slender, l in. diam.; internodes 1-2 in. Leaves 1 ft. long, 
and blong, or with 3-5 pairs of sigmoidly linear-lanceolate acuminate leaflets 
Ais broad i i j lender and 
A ase, 4-5 in. long by ł}-ł% broad; petiole 1-1} ft., very s . 
Pos, urfy ; terminal WA forked, toothed; sheath long, deeply striate. 
Cem *padiz 2-2} in, long, slender, nearly glabrous; peduncle short. Fruits 
ous, i in. long by 4 broad, red; albumen equable. 
DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 
tee VK PATULA, Blume in Bull. Néerl. 1838, 65; Rumphia, ii. 86, 87, t. 115; 
Natuypp p di. 611; Kurz in Journ, As. Soc. Beng. xlii. ii. 201; Scheff in 
B Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 176 (partly and excl. all vars.) ; in Ann. Jard. 
“ i. 130 (partly as to descr.), t. 18, f. 4, t. 19; Bece. Males. iii, 139. 
Seaforth; ` 
"ran, Patula, Mart, Nat, Hist, Palm. 323. Ptychosperma patula, Mig. Fl. 
