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Habitat. — Java. 



Up till quite recently this plant was called P. Kuhlii, BL, but 

 Ridley has now made it a new species. There are several specimens 

 of it in the Gardens. It spreads itself all over the place, and in 

 & shady spot makes a very ornamental plant. 



7. Pinanga iernatensis, Scheff. Ann. Jard. Buitenz. i (1S76) 1-19. 



Stems several, close, green, annulate; internodes 3-4 inches 

 long. Leaves 6-8 ft. long, light green; petiole 1-1^ ft, long, yel- 

 low; scurfy; sheath 1^ ft. long, very scurfy giving a brownish 

 appearance; leaflets 20-24 pairs, acuminate, 1^-2 ft. long, 1-1^ 

 inches broad, generally 2 ribbed, upper pair of leaflets pra^morse, 

 2 inches broad, strongly nerved, having 6 nerves, next five pairs of 

 leaflets bifid or pra?morse, 1" broad. iSpatlw boat-shaped, brown, 

 caducous. Spadix red, 12 branched ; peduncle short, 1 inch long, 

 stout; branches 9" to 1 ft. long. Male fioicers \" in diameter; 

 petals 3, ovate, acuminate ; stamens 18, filaments much shorter than 

 the anthers. Female flowers orl)icular; sepals ovate, acute. Fruit 

 ^ inch long, oldong, truncate at base and apex, at first yellow, when 

 quite ripe black. 



Hiabitat.— Ternate Islands. 



This ])lant is very like P. fruticans, TJidley, in ap])earance, 

 T3ut it has considerably more leaflets, and a more branched spadix. 



3. Loxococcus, AVendl. and Drude. 



Triinl- tail, erect, cylindric, annulate. Leaves pinnate; leaflets 

 linear, obliquely truncate, margins of leaves folded back, surface 

 plaited lengthwise. Spathe 2, boat shaped. Spadix monoecious, 

 that is stamens and pistils in separate flowers on the same in- 

 florescence, branched ; flowers in threes, mostly in clusters of a 

 female between two males, spirally arranged around the branches. 

 Male floivers, sepals 3, orl)icular. imbricate; petals 3, mucli larger, 

 ■ovate, valvate ; stamens 9-12, filaments very ■ short, anthers sub- 

 versatile; ])istillode, minute, ovoid. Female floirers smaller than 

 male, sub-globose, sepals orbicular, broadly imbricate, tips valvate, 

 staminodes o ; ovary 1-celled, stigmas 3, minute, ovule parietal. 

 Fruit subglobose, beaked with a sharp rigid point, stigmas terminal, 

 •endosperm ruminate. Monotypic 



Species 1, Ceylon. Represented in Gardens 1. 



1. Loxococcus rupicola, Wendl. and Drude in Linnoca, xxxix, 185. 

 Stem. — Solitary, erect, up to 40 ft. in height, 4-5 inches in 

 ■diameter, swollen slightly at liasc, annulate. Leaves spreading 6- 

 8 ft. in length, pinnate ; petiole 1-1| ft. in length, with green 

 smooth base; leaflets 12-20 pairs, up to 2 ft. in length by about 

 2^ inches in breadth, spreading, somewhat recurved, linear, sub- 

 glaucous beneath with scattered f urfuraceous scales ; sheath very 

 short. Spathe about 1 ft. long, ]iale yellow, clothed with reddish 

 scales. Spadix produced below the leaves, blood red in colour, 

 about 1 ft. in length, triangular when fully developed; peduncle 



