618 MONOECIA HEXANDRIA. | Areca. 
pound, premorse. Spadix ramous, erect. Male flowers 
triandrous, Fruit oblong. 
Beng. Bun-gooa. 
A native of Chittagong, where it was first observed by Dr. 
Buchanan, who sent plants of it to the Botanic garden at Cal- 
cutta in 1797. In 1808 the largest plant was in flower from 
May till January, and the seeds of the first blossoms were ripe 
in April 1809. ; 
Trunk perfectly straight, in our eleven or twelve years old 
plants about seven feet high, A. eatechu would have been tri- 
ple that height in the same time, quite simple, seven inches in 
circumference, perfectly round; and smooth, except the cireu- 
lar marks of the fallen leaves, #ronds pinnate, from four to 
five feet long. Leaflets sub-alternate, linear, preemorse, two 
or more toothed, or ending in one centre, ensiform, smooth, 
plaited, from two to three feet long. Spathe smooth, convex — 
underneath, length from the top of the sheath to the leaflets, 
from three to four inches, and there channelled, beyond this 
portion asharp high ridge. Spathe cylindric, smooth, about - 
a foot long. Spathe simple, axillary, linear-oblong, smooth ; 
the outside convex, the inner concave, with a sharp edge all 
round, and opening by a longitudinal slit on the middle of 
the inside, caducous. Spadix erect, short, decompound. 
Ramifications both first and second bifarious, alternate, pa- 
tent, Mae rLowers sessile, very minute, one on each side 
of every female, and numerous over the filiform extremities 
of the secondary ramifications of the spadix. Calyx very 
minute, three-leaved. Petals three, tapering obliquely. Fi- 
laments three, very short. Anthers sagittate. Germ a slen-— 
der, cylindric: column in the centre, FEMALE FLOWERS 
few, alternate, sessile, below the middle of the same ramifica- 
tions, much larger than the male ones. Calysx three-leaved ; 
leaflets oval, hard, concave, Petals three, longer than the 
calyx, oval, Nectary, six very small scales round the base 
of the germ. Germ oblong, one-celled, containing a single 
ov ulum, and sometimes one or two abortions attached to the 
