Tas. 8011. 
PINANGA MacuLata, 
: Philippine Islands, 
Patma. Tribe ARECEA. 
Pinanea, Blume; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii, p, 884; Beccari, 
Malesia, vol. iii. pp, 110 et 145, 
Pinanga maculata, Porte ex Lem. in Jil. Hort. vol. x. (1863), t, 361; Drude 
in Bot. Zeit. 1877, p. 636, t. 5, figs. 12-13; habitu P. Veitchii, Wendl., 
similis sed floribus spiraliter dispositis differt. : 
Caules ceespitosi, tenues, 35 ped, alti, brunneo-purpurei. Folia elliptica, fere 
ad medium bifida, apice serrata, maculata; vagina longe fusiformis ; 
petiolus brevis. Spadia infra-foliacea, recurva, pilosa, indivisa; flores 
spiraliter dispositi, ternatim aggregati, intermedio femineo, lateralibus 
masculis. Flores $; calycis lobi late triangulares, breviter acuminati; 
petala suborbicularia ; stamina numerosa, filamentis brevibus, ovoideis, 
antheris oblongis, quam filamenta 2-3-plo longioribus, Flores ? rubri: 
sepala petalaque orbicularia vel fere reniformia, ciliata ; staminodia nulla; 
ovarium breviter oblongum, stigmatibus 3, sessilibus; ovulum parvam, 
basale. Fructus ignotus. 
Like many other garden palms, this was originally 
described from a barren plant, and we have been unable 
to find any record of its flowering, beyond a description 
and figure of the ovule by Drude, until the subject of this 
plate flowered in a stove at Kew in November last. The 
flowers then produced confirm the original guess that the 
plant is a Pinanga, in which genus Beccari enumerated it 
as an imperfectly known species. Our plant was received 
in 1900 from the Botanic Garden, Penang. It is a native 
of humid forests in the Philippines at altitudes of 1,200- 
1,500 feet, and is said to flower there first when about 
nine feet high, The Kew plant, however, produced 
flowers when about one-third that height. 
The genus Pinanga is represented at Kew by nearly a 
dozen species in cultivation; but, among small Palms, they 
do not flower so freely as the members of the New World 
Chamedorea. The only other Pinanga figured in this 
Magazine (t, 6581) is the very pretty FP. patula, Blume, 
which formerly flowered and fruited annually at Kew, but 
it is no longer represented in the collection. 
About half a dozen species are figured in the “ Annales 
Apri. Ist, 1905. 
