144 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Brit. Ind. I.e. 411. Seaforthia patula Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm 323. 

 Ptychosperma patula Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. III. 26. 



Pahang : Tahan River at Kwala Tenok (Ridley 3158) ; Perak : 

 Ulu Bubong (King's Coll. 10702). Distrib. Sumatra and Borneo. 



16. P. singaporensis, Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. Vol. 41, p. 38. 

 Stems tufted 6 to 15 feet tall dark green f inch tbrougb, internodes 8 

 inches long. Leaves concolorous or a little paler along the back about 

 3 feet long, sheath tubular, petiole 8 inches long, leaflets sigmoid 

 acuminate about 13, subopposite terminal one forked, 12 inches long 

 by 3 inches wide or less, nerves 5 to 7. Spike branched erect 4 inches 

 long, branches 5. Spathe thin boat-shaped papery with a short point 

 brownish pink 1^ inch long. Rachis cream scurfy. Flowers distich- 

 ous. Male i inch long ivory white. Sepals very small acute. Petals 

 oblique ovate acuminate much larger. Stamens 14 white filaments 

 very short. Anthers oblong, no pistillode. Female petals and sepals 

 broadly oblong pink edges ciliate. Stigma small sessile papillose 

 circular entire. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah, Mandai, Seletar (Ridley 11267); Muar : 

 Sungei Segal (Fox). Endemic and rather scarce. 



3. Nenga, Wendl. 



Medium sized palms, tufted. Leaves pinnate, leaflets linear acumi- 

 nate. Compound spikes deflexed, flowers spiral or in 4 or 6 series. 

 Sepals and petals subequal subulate in male. Stamens 6. Seed ovoid 

 short base truncate, ovule parietal. 



Species 3, Malayan. 



Fruit 1 inch long ••• 1. N. Wendlandiana. 



Fruit l£ inch long 2. N. macrocarpa. 



1. N. Wendlandiana, Scheff. Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 1. 153. t. 

 9-10. Stems several 10-15 feet tall, l£ inch through dark green. 

 Leaves 5 feet or more long, leaflets alternate linear finely acuminate, 

 12-15 inches long, petiole 2 feet long sheath purplish. Spathe falcate 

 ensiform 7-9 inches long 1 inch wide. Spikes 3 or 4 branched a foot 

 long decurved rachis moderately stout. Flowers spiral, 2 males to one 

 female except at the tips where there are no females. Males cream} 

 yellow. Sepals linear acuminate i inch long. Petals broader lanceo- 

 late acuminate shorter. Stamens linear 6 pink. Females pinkish 

 cream colour. Sepals orbicular, petals somewhat larger. Pistil globose 

 with 2 short ovoid teeth. Drupe oblong 1 inch long apex blunt round- 

 ed claret coloured. Seed shortly ovoid blunt base truncate intruded, 

 ruminate. Becc. Malesia [.25. EII. 182, Ann. .lard. Buitenz. 11.83. 

 Hook. til. I.e. 412. A T . pumila Wendl. Kerchov. Palm 251. N. intermedia 

 Becc. I.e. 85. Pinanga Nenga Bl. Rumphia II. 77. t. 107. Arecq 



