620 MONOECiA HEXANDUiA, Aieca. 



Sectary none. Germ oval, one-celled ; ou?< /a solitary, attach- 

 ed to the bottom of the cell. Style shorter than the germ. 

 Stigma large, infundibuliform, with ragged edges. Drupe 

 oblong, obtuse pointed, scarcely so long as a field bean ; the 

 fibrous pulp covered with a thin, smooth skin. iSeerf solita- 

 ry, oblong, with the base a little oblique. Inter/ument sin- 

 gle, brown, somewhat spongy, and adhering firmly to the pe- 

 risperm, into which it enters as in the common Areca. Pe~ 

 risperm conform to the seed. Embryo simple, ovate, lodged 

 in the base of the perisperni. 



5. A. disticha. Roxb. 



Fronds furcate. 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. /S/j/jes sheathing. Spathe 

 one-leaved, opening on the inside, caducous. Spadix solita- 

 ry, on the inside of the sheath of the stipe, and hid by it till 

 it falls ofi; simple, distich, by the time the flowers expand 

 retrofracted, flexuose, woolly, from two to three inches long. 

 Flowers sessWe. The female ones solitary, on the projecting 

 anoles 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, 

 nuich 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. JWc- 

 lary none, or no rudiments; of filaments. Germ oval. Style 



