Ferdinand Bauer’s drawing of Norfolk Island specimens (which 
have been considered by some as the same species); but this 
does not agree with the Zew Zealand plant in the shape of the 
drupe, said to be “ globose” in Norfolk Island. Mr. J. Smith, 
of the Royal Gardens, Kew, has both of them in cultivation, 
and has pointed out a very considerable difference in habit, and 
in the breadth of the pinnules, those from Norfolk Island being 
twice as broad; but there is great variation in this respect in 
both species. Von Martius also separates them, but gives 
Forster's name to the Norfolk Island plant, whereas Forster's 
drawing is from the New Zealand one only, to which the name 
of sapida must remain attached, whilst that of Baueri may be 
given to the Norfolk Island species, if it prove really distinct. 
The genus Areca, our species of which yields the well-known 
Betel-nut (Areca Catechu), is found in Asia and its islands; but 
the group to which 4. sapida belongs, and which has a one- 
celled ovary, is supposed to be confined to New Zealand, Nor- 
folk Island, and the Malay Archipelago. Mr. Brown distin- 
guishes the Australian nearly allied Palm by the name of Sea- 
Jorthia (see our Tab. 4961): it resembles the New Zealand Plant, 
but differs from it in having numerous stamens and ruminated 
albumen. 
_Duscr. 4. sapida is a small Palm.’ Trunk six to twelve feet 
high (Allan Cunningham says twenty feet), six to eight inches in 
diameter. Leaves pinnate, four to six feet long; pinnules very 
narrow, linear-lanceolate, margins replicate ; zerves and costa, and 
especially the petiole, covered with minute lepidote scales. Spadix 
much branched, densely flowered, eighteen to twenty-four inches 
long, enclosed in a double, boat-shaped spatha. Flowers very 
numerous, of a pale-pinkish colour, ma/es and Semales intermixed, 
one of the former being generally placed between two of the 
latter, all sessile. Male perianth six-cleft, or of six, ovate, acu- 
minate pieces, in two rows, outer one smaller. Stamens six, 
surrounding the rudiment of an ovary. Female perianth also of 
six broadly ovate leaflets, rolled round one another, and enclosing 
a one-celled ovarium, with three sessile stigmas and a pendulous 
ovule on one side of the cavity. Fruit an ovoid drupe, half an 
inch long, with a fibrous outer coat; the membranous éesta 
thickened on one side down the raphe; albumen horny, the surface 
not ruminated. Hmdbryo small, in the base of the albumen. J.D.. 
Fig. 1. Greatly reduced figure of a flowering plant. 2. Spatha. 3. Portion 
of spadix, with flowers :—nat. size. 4. Male flower. 5. Stamen. 6. Female 
flower :—magnified. 1%. Drupe. 8. Seed:—nat. size. 9. Albumen,—slightly 
magnified. 
