114 CLXIII. PALMEX. (Beccari & Hook. f.) [Ptychoraphis. 
2. P. augusta, Bece. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 90; Males. iil, 
110; trunk very tall, leaflets numerous 2-3 ft., spadix decompound, 
fruit elliptic-oblong. Areca augusta, Kurz in Journ. Bot. 1875, 93], 
t. 170. l 
NicoBAR IstaNps; in woods in Kamorta, Kurz. e 
Trunk slender, 80-100 ft. by 1 ft. diam, Leaves 8-12 ft.; leaflets sessile, 
narrowly linear, acuminate, 3-costate ; petiole very short; rachis flat above, fee 
raceously tomentose. Spadix decompound, 24-3} ft. Male ft. bracts broad smoot / 
sepals broadly ovate; petals oblong, obtuse. Fem. fl. sepals and petals nearly 
alike, concave, imbricate. Fruit 1 in. long, elliptic-oblong, scarlet. Seed oblong. 
6. CYRTOSTACHYS, Blume. 
Stems slender, cespitose, annulate. Leaves pinnatisect; leaflets 
linear-lanceolate, acuminate, l-costate. Spathes 2, complete, caducous. 
Spadix infrafoliar, shortly peduncled, broadly paniculately branched ; 
branches 1-2 ft. long, stout, spreading; flowers in spirally disposo 
clusters of 3, a fem. between 2 males. Male fl. symmetrical; sepas 
orbicular, imbricate; petals valvate; stamens 12-15, exserted ; anthora 
short, versatile; pistillode 2-fid. Fl fem.; sepals orbicular; petals 
longer, broadly imbricate, tips valvate; staminodes forming a membranon 
cup; ovary narrowly ovoid ; stigmas subulate; ovule pendulous from ihe 
tip of the cell. Fruit small, ovoid, stigma terminal. Seed adherent to the 
endocarp, globose, hilum apical; albumen equable; embryo basilar— 
Species 2, Malayan. 
1, C. Lakka, Beer, in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 141; fruit conico- 
ovoid gradually narrowed to the tip, seed ovoid. C. Dakka var. singa 
porensis, Becc. l. c. 
SINGAPORE ; in humid jungles.— DıstTRIB. Borneo. 90 b 
A slender tall soboliferous Palm. eaves about 4 ft.; leaflets about k Ki 
1-14 in., upper shorter obtuse or toothed, green above, ashy grey beneath ; $ t 
red Fruit A in. long, by about A, diam.— Very near C. Rendah of Sumatrh 
which has an ovoid fruit abruptly constricted at the tip, and a globose seed. 
7. ONCOSPERMA, Blume. 
_ Prickly palms. Leaves terminal, pinnatisect. Spathes 2, complets 
Spadir infrafoliar, branched ; branches with solitary male flowers * vic; 
and ternate flowers below (a fem. between 2 males). Male fl. asy manent 
sepals suborbicular, acute; petals obliquely ovate, valvate. gew 
6-12; anthers elongate; pistillode columnar, 3-fid. Fem. fl. glo acht 
sepals and petals orbicular, imbricate; staminodes 6; ovary we eed 
ovoid, 1-3-celled ; stigmas minute; ovule parietal. Fruit small, Bee ly 
stigmas lateral or basal. Seed suborbicular, raphe broad ; albumen "7 p 
ruminate.—Species 5-6, Malayan. 
1. O. filamentosa, Blume, Rumphia ii. 97, t. 82, 103; start 
leaflets subequidistant drooping, male fl. hexandrous, fruit rt 
Ze in. diam. O. cambodianum, Hance in Journ. Bot. (1876) 261. set. iv. 
tigillaria, Jack in Mal. Misc. ii. vii. 88 (in Calc. Journ. Nat. eT 
12); Grif. in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 493; Palms Brit. Int 
t. 133 B. A. Nibung, Mart. Hist. Nat, Palm. iii. 173, 311, t. 153. 
