136 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Stem stout 2 inches through, seed ovoid... 1. A. pumila. 



Stem | inch through ... ••• ... 2. A. montana. 



Stem i inch through, seed fusiform ... 3. A. /areata. 

 Stem slender ^ inch through. 



1. Areca pumila, Bl. Euraph. II. p. 71 t. 99. 102 (not Mart\ 

 Stems solitary 10-15 feet tall, 2 inches through light green. Leaves 

 ahout 6 feet long light green leaflets broad 18 inches long and 3 inches 

 vide acuminate. Spadix stout 9 inches long, hranches 4 inches long 

 ahout 13. Male spikes 6 inches long slender. Flowers i inch long. 

 Sepals very small ovate. Petals lanceolate acute equal 7 ribbed. 

 Stamens 3. Female flowers sepals ovate obtuse smooth f inch long. 

 Petals shorter ovate, green. Pistil conic. Fruit la inch long white 

 tipped red, ± inch through apex beaked. Seed ovoid with a broad base, 

 I inch long. A. triandra var. pumila, Miq. Fl. Nederl. Ind. III. 11. 



Hill woods. Selangor: Ginting Bidai (Eidley); Perak : Larut Hills 

 (Ridley 11429). (Wray 949) ; Penang : Waterfall (Curtis). Lankawi 

 Kwah (Ridley). Distrib. Java. 



This is doubtless the plant referred to A. triandra Roxb. in the 

 Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. p. 406. It differs in its broader leaflets, solitary 

 stouter stem, and seed shaped like that of a betel nut. Blume figures 

 the fruit as bright red. I have only seen it of a creamy white tipped 

 red at each end. 



2. A. MONTANA, n.sp. Stem 15 feet tall \ inch through distinctly 

 ringed, rings broad half an inch apart. Leaves 18 inches long 2 foot 

 wide, sheath six inches long, mouth oblique petiole recurved 3 or 4 

 inches long, leaflets numerous over 20, linear acuminate 1 foot long \-\ 

 inch wade. Terminal one deeply bifid lobes \\ inch wido. Spadix 4£ 

 inches long, base i inch wide branches few 3 inches long slender 

 sminous. Male flowers. Femalo flowers \ inch long ovate curved. 

 Petals ovate obtuse. 



Selangor: Semangkok Pass, at 3000 feet alt (Bum-Murdoch). 



3. A. FURCATA, Becc. Malesia I. 23. Stems light coloured when 

 dry i inch through, internodes an inch long. Leaves cuneate bilobed 

 or irregularly bipinnate, pinnae broad acuminate about 7 inches long, 

 petiole 1 to 3 inches long sheaths broadly strongly ribbed. Spathes 

 not seen. Spadices usually erect 2 inches long with 5 branches, slender 

 zig-zag. Flowers very small scattered in 2 rows. Males \ inch long. 

 Calyx short rounded cupular. Petals short ovoid, longer. Stamens 

 11-12, filaments short anthers narrow linear. Females larger. Calyx 

 large. Sepals falcate ovate, potals similar but smaller. Fruiting calyx 

 enlarged. Drupe fusiform ? inch long, ribbed when dry, terminated 

 by a ring-shaped disc, styles shorfc triangular. 



Johore, Gunong Janeng (Lake and Kelsall). " Pinang KakiPelan- 

 dok." 



