tunately Blume’s excellent plates and descriptions leave no 
doubt as to the name of the plant here figured. 
With regard to Roxburgh’s 4reca triandra, to which Miquel 
has referred this as a variety, I was very familiar with it in 
Bengal ; it is a much larger plant, attaining 30 feet in 
height, is always stoloniferous, and has usually many more 
and narrower pinnules. 
A. pumila is a native of Java, and was received at the Royal 
Gardens from Holland many years ago; it flowered fre- 
quently, usually in the spring months, up till some six years 
ago, when it died after transplantation. 
Duscr. Stem three feet high, erect, slender, without 
stolons, solitary, swollen at the very base, green; rings very 
prominent, two inches apart. Leaves few, about two feet long; 
sheath cylindric, slightly inflated, green, petiole short and 
rather smooth ; blade ovate-oblong, cut into about five pairs of 
leaflets, which are rather distant, oblong from a very broad 
base, falcate, acuminate, about 5-nerved, minutely asperulous. 
beneath. Spathe suberect, much shorter than the leaf-sheath, 
flabellately sparingly branched, stout, shortly peduncled, 
green, quite glabrous. /Vowers unilateral; ¢ minute, 2-seriate, 
imbricate on slender white flexuous branchlets, secund. Sepals 
minute, triangular. Petals elliptic-ovate, subacute. Stamens 
three : fl. 2 sessile at the base of the small branches, with a 
minute imperfect male flower on each side. Sepals green, 
broad, subacute, keeled, rather shorter than the petals. Drupe 
a inches long, ellipsoid-oblong, red-brown, umbonate.— 
ol, 1. 
Fig. 1. Reduced view of whole plant ; 2, top of stem and spadix, of the 
natural size; 3, male flower ; 4, female flower with minute male and base of 
male branch :—all magnified ; 5, fruit, of natural size, from Blume, 
