620 MONOECIA HEXANDRIA. Areca, 
Nectary none. Germoval, one-celled ; ovulasolitary,attach- 
ed to the bottom of the cell. Sty/e shorter than the germ, 
Stigma large, infundibuliform, with ragged edges, Drupe 
oblong, obtuse pointed, scarcely so long asa field bean; the - 
fibrous pulp covered with a thin, smooth skin. Seed solita- 
ry, oblong, with the base a little oblique. Integument sin- 
gle, brown, somewhat spongy, and adhering firmly to the pe- 
risperm, into which it enters as inthe common Areca, Pe- 
risperm conform to the seed, Embryo simple, ovate, lodged 
in the base of the perisperm, 
5. A. disticha. Roxb. 
Fronds fureate. Spadix axillary, simple, retrofracted, 
distich, Male flowers dodecandrous. Female without nec- 
tary. Fruit ovate. 
A native of the shady forests of Pulo Pinang; where it was 
found by Mr. W. Roxburgh. | 
Stem about as thick as a common rattan, marked with the 
annual cicatrices of the fallen fronds, from twenty-four to 
thirty-six inches high. Fronds forked, nerves many, simple 
and parallel, smooth on both sides ; apices of the two divisions 
obtuse, and ending in as many slender points, as there are 
nerves in the upper portion of the divisions; whole length — 
about twelve or fifteen inches, Stipes sheathing. Spathe 
one-leaved, opening on the inside, caducous. Spadizx solita- 
ry, on the inside of the sheath of the stipe, and hid by it till - 
it falls off, simple, distich, by the time the flowers expand 
retrofracted, Ssthcine, woolly, from two to three inches long. 
Flowers sessile. The female ones solitary, on the projecting 
angles of the rachis, with a single male on each side of each 
female, Male calyx three-leaved, or deeply three-cleft, 
small, Corol ; petals three, unequal, obliquely ovate, peltate, 
much longer than the calyx. Filaments about fifteen, short. 
Anthers linear. Female calyx or corol, or both, six-leaved. 
Leaflets nearly equal, ovate, or nearly round, concave. Nee- 
tary none, or no rudiments of filaments. Germ oval. Style 
