Areca. MONOECIA HEXANDRIA, 619 
bottom of the cell. Style none, Stigma conic, and composed 
of three, small, unequal, conic lobes.’ Berry oblong; of the 
size of an olive, but longef, smooth, when ripe of a lively 
orange, becoming red. Pulp in small quantity, and mixed 
with. many longitudinal, strong, ligneous fibres, one-celled. 
Seed conform to the berry, much ruminated as in catechu, 
and with embryo lodged in its very base. 
4, A. gracilis. R. 
Leaves pinnate ; leaflets few, plaited ; lower pairs faleate, 
alternate, acuminate, the terminal pair preemorse. Spadix 
axillary, simple, retrofracted, with flowers on all wad male 
polyandrous, - Seed oblong. . 
Beng. Gooa soopar?, and Ramgooa are the vernacular 
names at Silhet, 
An elegant, tall, slender species, a native of the hills of 
Chittagong, Silhet, and the east border of Bengal, where it 
a blossoms during the hot season; and the seed ripens in Oc- 
i tober. | Aaa shee: A +seee 
: Trunk erect, straight, marked with the circular scars of 
the fallen leaves, about as stout as a walking cane, and from 
six to ten feet high, Leaves alternate, pinnate, smooth, about 
three feet long. Leaflets from three to four pair, opposite — 
or sub-alternate, plaited, from two to three inches broad, and 
from twelve to eighteen inches long, lower pairs falcate, with 
_ the exterior half tapering to a very long, fine point, exterior 
pair shorter, linear, and preemorse, with each of the plaits end- 
ing in a bifid point. Petioles somewhat triangular, with a 
raffineted bine pailimadlonved with a bifid apex, open- 
ing down the interior or concave side.’ Spadix axillary, ge- 
nerally simple, retrofracted, completely clothed on all sides 
with male and female flowers, viz. for every female two males, 
one oneach side, Male calyx minute, three-cornered. Petals 
2 three, obliquely cordate, acute, many times longer ats the 
>. calyx. Stamina numerous, shorter than the corol. Fei 
_ ealyx and corol of three equal leaflets, and petals: each. 
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