Üncosperma.] cLxiu. PALME. (Beccari & Hook. f.) 415 
MALAY PENINSULA; in swamps.— DISTRIB. Borneo, Cochin China, 
Trunk 30-40 ft., armed with long black spines. Leaves many, 10-12 ft., 
drooping; leaflets 2 ft., narrow, acuminate, pendulous, coriaceous, many-nerved, 
scurfy beneath ; petiole armed, seurfy. Spathes boat-shaped, 2-keeled, outer armed, 
Dier velvety. Spadia shortly produced, peduncle slightly armed, branches many, 
g, flexuous, upper simple; fruiting 1-2 ft., pendulous, red-purple. Male fl. ; 
sepals cuspidate. keeled ; petals suddenly acuminate, tip setiferous ; filaments short ; 
anthers deeply bifid below. Fem. Jl. ; sepals and petals fleshy. 
2. O. horrida, Scheff. in Natwurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 189; in 
Ann. Jard. Buitenz. i. 159 ; stoloniferous, leaflets subequidistant spreading, 
male fl. hexandrous, fruit spherical j-1 in. diam. Areca horrida, Griff. in 
Cale, Journ, Nat. Hist. v. 465; Palms Brit. Ind. 158, t. 233 C; Mart. 
Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 312. 
Matay PENINSULA, Grifith.—DistTR1B. Borneo. 
Trunk 30-40 ft., armed, Leaves few, spreading, 14-16 ft. ; leaflets 2-3 ft., very 
arrow, acuminate, spreading, coriaceous. Spathes 2 complete, acutely margined, outer 
1-1} ft. armed, inner cuspidate. Spadiz with the stout peduncle armed below; branches 
~2 ft., pendulous, flexuous ; fruiting with pendulous branches 2-3 ft. long. Fruit 
purplish black.—Griffith, from whom the above descriptions are taken, says of this 
allied to A, tillgiaria, but very distinct in the spathes and fruit. 
, 9. 0. fasciculata, Thw. Enum. 328; stoloniferous, leaflets fascicled 
tips drooping, flowers enneandrous, fruit in. diam. Scheff. in Ann. Jard. 
Buitenz. i. 160. Caryota horrida, Moon Cat. Ceyl. Pl. 64. 
ÜEYLON ; in the Central Province, ascending to 5000 ft. 
b Trunk 30-40 ft. and more, 5-6 in. diam., armed, Leaves 18 ft. ; leaflets 12-18 
ke. m., lanceolate, long-acuminate, costa scaly beneath ; sheath 2j ft., arm 
seurfy, Spathes sparingly scurfy, unarmed. Spadia 2 ft., unarmed, panicu- 
ately branched, dense-fld. Male fl. 4 in. long. Drupe black-purple. 
8. IGUANURA, Blume. 
Slender unarmed alms. Leaves terminal, entire or pinnatisect, with 
inte! acute or præmorse leaflets. Spathes 2, persistent, short. Spadiz 
Wale infra-foliar, branches spreading; flowers spirally disposed, 3-nate 
S em. between 2 males), or the upper on the branches males. Male fl. 
rie metric; sepals orbicular, imbricate; petals connate below, ovate or 
e Ceolate, valvate; stamens 6 or 9, anthers dorsifixed ; pistillode trigo: 
test em. fl. subglobose ; sepals and petals orbicular; staminodes o 
Pari ; Ovary ovoid or oblong, 1—3-celled; stigmas sessile; ovule solitary, 
neta] Pruit small, oblong ovoid or elongate conical, stigmas sub- 
silar, Seed suberect, hilum lateral; albumen equable or ruminate.— 
Pecles 8-10, Malayan. 
alayan. 
e Spadix interfoliar, very long and long peduncled, simple or with 2-3 
I equal pendulous branches. 
"Pa z. Feonomeeformis, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. 299, 178 ; stem 
and er» leaves pinnate, leaflets 6-8 pairs obliquely acuminate or premorse 
oblong LY toothed, spadix furfuraceous, branches thick, fruit obovoid- 
wien Plackia geonomeformis, Griff. in Cale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 469 ; 
y Brit, Ind. 162, t, 234, 
Oa, ei gongs Common in forests, Grif. (Kew distrib. 6406, 6407), on Mt. 
