Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 143 



inches long oblong. Compound spike deflexed stout 12 inches long, 

 branches 2 to 5 rachis broad flattened, bright red in fruit. Flowers 

 distichous. Males, sepals lanceolate. Petals much longer. Stamens 

 40 filaments very short. Females, sepals and petals very short. 

 Stigma discoid. Drupes 4 inch long at first cream colour at length 

 black. Seed olive shaped base truncate apex blunt 1 inch long. Albu- 

 men ruminate. Becc. Malesia III. 137. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit Ind. VI. 410. 

 Areca haematocarpa Griff. Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 165. A. malaiana 

 Griff, l.c.c. 457. Palms Brit. India 252 t. 230. C. Seaforthia malaiana 

 Mart. Hist Nat. Palm. III. 184. Ptychosperma malaiana Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. III. 23. 



Singapore : Chan Chu Kang (Ridley 3508) ; Johor : Gunong Panti 

 (Ridley); Malacca: (Griffith) Jus (Goodenough 1499), Ayer Panas 

 (130), AyerKeroh (Ridley 10781) ; Sungei Ujong : Perhentian Tinggi 

 (Ridley 10122; ; Pahang : Sungei Chenei (Fox), Kwala Lipis (Macha- 

 do), Kwala Tenok (Ridley 3161); Selangor : Bukit Kudah (Ridley); 

 Perak : Larut Hills (King's Coll. 3490). Batang Padang (King's Coll. 

 8120) ; Penang : Hill (Ridley) 7099. Distrib. Sumatra. 



In damp woods to 1500 feet elevation. Native names " Pinang 

 Dam pong," " Pinang Boreng Hijau. 



14. P. RIPARIA, Ridley Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 44, p. 

 201. Stems distant 12-15 feet tall 2-H inch through internodes 3-4 

 inches long. Leaf about 3 feet long blade pinnate with 8 lateral lobes 

 and 1 terminal bifurcating one green, rachis angled scurfy, lobes linear 

 or linear lanceolate acuminate with 3-6 nerves 8-9 inches long 1^-2 

 inches across, tip entire long acuminate, terminal lobes broad coarsely 

 toothed many nerved. Spadix decurv'ed peduncle stout | inch long 

 branches 3-4 stout 6-7 inches long. Flowers distichous close. Females 

 globose, i inch long. Sepals orbicular ribbed, petals barely longer. 

 Fruit i inch long oblong obtuse to ringed. Stigmas very short capitate. 



Johor, swampy woods, banks of the Tebrau river near Castlewood 

 (Ridley 11,518), growing in water, thowing up numerous stems from 

 stolons. 



Near P. coronata, Bl. but with a much smaller spadix. 



15. P. patula, Bi. Rumphia II. 86, t. 115. Stems tufted slen- 

 der 6-20 feet tall i to 1^ inch through, internodes 2| to 3| inch long. 

 Leaf 2 to 3 feet long pinnate with 6 pairs of sigmoid leaflets acumin- 

 ate with a long point, narrowed at the base, terminal one deeply bifid, 

 apex toothed nerves 3 to 7, leaflets dark above 7 inches long 2 to 2^ 

 inch wide. Spathe not known. Spike 4 branched deflexed, branches 

 rather slender 6 inches long, red. Male flowers unknown. Females, 

 sepals orbicular obtusely erose-crenulate. Petals smaller and rounder. 

 Drupes flesh colour elliptic ribbed and when dry over i inch long, apex 

 adnate. Seed elliptic ruminate. Becc. Malesia III. 139. Hook. fil. Fl. 



