616 MONOECIA HEXANDRIA: Areca. "4 
Arab. Foolfal. 
Beng. Gooa. 
Teling. Poka chelloo. : 
Where this tree grows wild I cannot say from my own ob- 
servation, but it is cultivated in all the warmer parts of Asia, 
and is in flower most part of the year, It is the most beauti- 
ful palm we have in India. The trunk grows remarkably: 
straight, often from forty to fifty feet high, and in general 
about twenty inches in circumference,equally thick in every 
part, and smooth, but the tree is so well known, and fully de-: 
scribed, that 1 should not have thought of mentioning it, had 
I not found that its family character was imperfectly known. 
Male and female flowers are in the same spadix. Spathe 
double, Spadizx very branchy. Mae FLOWERS very numer- 
ous, about the female ones, sessile, without bractes. Calyx 
one-leaved, small, three-cornered, three-parted, smooth. Pe-« 
tals three, oblong, rigid, striated; smooth, many times longer 
than the perianth. Filaments generally three, very short 
and broad, two-parted, inserted round the base of the abor- 
tive ‘germ. Anthers always six, sagittate. Germ no other 
than a short culm, which splits into three short, obtuse seg-* 
‘ments, FEMALE FLOWERS one, two, or three, at or near the 
base of each ramification of the spadix, sessile without brac-— 
tes. Calyx three-leaved ; ; leaflets cordate, rigid, fleshy, per- 
manent. Corol iliree:petalled; like the calyx, and perma- 
nent. Nectary membranaceous, generally six-toothed, em- 
bracing closely the base of the germ. Germ oval. Style 
sarcely any. Stigmas three, short, triangular. The drupe 
is well described, and — by —- wn i, pet 19. t. : 
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On the Malabar coast the common black. pepper vine is 
usually trained up to this tree, which renders it more usefal 
in those a, than any other. ; 
2. A. Dicksonii. Roxb. cites 
Fronds pinnate; leaflets ribbed, with preemorse: = mange 
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