Tas. 6581. 
PINANGA PATULA. 
Native of Sumatra. 
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Nat. Ord. Patmem.—Tribe ARECINER. 
Genus Pinanoa, Blume ; (Rumphia, vol, ii. p. 76.) 
Pinanea patula ; candice humili, foliis inequaliter pinnatisectis, pinnis 8-18-jugis 
erecto-patulis basi lata adnatis falcato-lanceolatis acuminatis 3-5-nervis termi- 
nalibus truricato-dentatis, subtus rachi petioloque minute furfuraceis, rachi 
dorso convexo antice carinato, petiolo breviusculo teretiusculo, vagina elongata 
cylindracea longe fissa, spadicibus infra-foliaceis subpinnatim simpliciter v. 
bis ramosis, ramis curvis crassiusculis compressis rigidis, spatha completa 
oblonga acuta furfuracea, floribus 3-nis, glomerulis ad margines ramorum 
spadicis 2-seriatis, in singulo glomerulo 1 foemineo 2 masculis, fl. 2 perianthio 
post anthesin vix aucto, drupis parvis ellipsoideis obtusis scrobiculis spadicis 
insertis. : 
P. patula, Blume in Rumphia, vol. ii. p. 87, t. 115. 
Prycnosrerma patula, Miguel Fl. Ind. Bat. vol. iii. p. 26. 
SrarorTuta patula, Mart. Hist. Palm. vol. iii. p. 313. 
A beautiful dwarf Palm, a native of the mountains of the 
Island of Sumatra, belonging to a very distinct genus that 
extends from the Eastern Himalaya to Borneo, and consists 
generally of species of small stature and very elegant habit, 
well suited for stove culture. P. patula is closely allied to 
P. furfuracea of the Celebes, which is, however, a much 
more scurfy plant, with the leaflets toothed towards the 
top on the lower edge. 
P. patula was received at Kew from the Dutch Gardens 
many years ago, and has flowered and fruited annually in 
the Palm-house for some time. 
Descr. Stem solitary, four to six feet high, slender, one 
to two inches in diameter, green, smooth, ringed, swollen 
at the base. Leaves four to five feet long, oblong in outline, 
unequally pinnate, faintly furfuraceous below and on the 
rachis and petiole ; segments eight to eighteen pairs, erecto- 
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SEPTEMBER lst, 1881. 
