Tas. 6025. 
ARECA PUMILA. 
Native of the Malayan Archipelago. 
Nat. Ord. Patmem.—Tribe ARECINER. 
‘Genus Arrca, Linn.; (Endl. Gen. Pl., vol. i. p. 247.) 
ArEca pumila ; caule humili arundinaceo basi dilatato, cicatricibus pro- 
minentibus ad 2 poll. remotis, foliisad 1-2-pedalibus, vagina cylindracea 
paulo turgida viridi, rachi glabra, petiolo brevi pinnis ad 5-jugis e basi 
lata remotis late falcato-oblongis acuminatis sub 5-nerviis subtus 
minutissime asperulis, summis confluentibus premorso-dentatis, spadice 
brevi arrecto breviter pedunculato glabro pinnatim ramoso, bracteis 
angustis subulato-lanceolatis, floribus masculis ultra medium ramulorum 
flexuosorum 2-seriatim imbricatis secundis, foemineis ad basin ramu- 
lorum solitariis cum masculis 2 imperfectis stipatis, sepalis in fl. ¢ 
minutis petalis subacutis multoties minoribus, fl. Q sepalis amplis petalis 
paulo brevioribus, staminibus 3, fructu elongato ellipsoideo umbonato. 
Arcea pumila, Blume, Rumphia, vol. ii. p. 71, t. 99 et 102, non Martius. 
ARECA triandra, Roxb. var. pumila Miguel Fl. Ned. Ind., vol. iii. og 11; 
Flore des Jardins, vol. ii. t. 10 (1859) excl. synon. Marti, Miquelii et 
Griffthii, 
Areca triandra, Roxb. var. B. pumila, Mart. Hist. Palm., vol. iii. p. 311. 
The present elegant Palm has been the subject of much 
confusion. It was originally discovered by Blume, who 
appears to have communicated its discovery to Von Martius 
under the name of 4. pumila. Martius, however, through 
some mistake, described and figured Blume’s 4. Nenga, a totally 
distinct plant, belonging to another section of the genus, for 
Blume’s 4. pumila. Griffith (“Calcutta Journal of Nat. Hist., 
vol. v. 456) retains Martius’ name of 4. pumila for A. Nenga, 
in which he is followed by Miquel (“ FI. Ind. Bat., vol. 111. 
p- 14); and, lastly, the anonymous author of the “ Flo Te 
des Jardins ” (1859), quotes all the above names as belonging 
to one plant, and accompanies them by a wretched reduced 
copy of the true 4. pumila taken from Blume’s work. For. 
“MARCH Ist, 1873. 
