Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 145 



Nenga Bl. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm III. 179. A. pumila Griff. Calc. 

 Journ. Nat. Hist. V. 456. Palms of British India 151. Miq. Fl. Ind. 

 Bat. III. 14. 



Singapore : Garden Road, Changi (Ridley 3157), Seletar (3163, 3164, 

 3165, 6291) ; Johor : Batu Pahat (Ridley) ; Malacca : Ching (Griffith) ; 

 Dindings : Bruas (Ridley) ; Pahang : Pekan (Ridley) ; Perak : Larut 

 (King's Coll. 4022). 



In low swamps in woods in the plains, common. Native names 

 " Pinang Umu," " Pinang Antan." Distrib. Sumatra. 



var. hexapetala Becc. Males. III. 183, is apparently a monstrosity 

 with six petals, once collected in Perak by Scortechini. 



2. N. MACROCARPA, Scort. in Becc. Malesia III. 184. Stems 

 few together 6 to 18 feet tall. Leaves 3-4 feet long leaflets linear 

 acuminate 18 to pairs, often broad and strongly ribbed. Spathe pur- 

 plish oblong. Peduncles stout, spikes 2-3 deflexed thick over a foot 

 long. Male flowers f inch long. Sepals narrow linear acute. Petals 

 lanceolate acute. Stamens 6, filaments short. Anthers linear base 

 sagittate. Females, sepals and petals suborbicular. Fruiting calyx 

 very large i inch across. Drupes ellipsoid black terminated by the 

 trifid triangular stigmas li inch long. Seed ovoid under i inch long 

 albumen strongly ruminate. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 412. 



Johor : Gunong Panti (Ridley) ; Negri Sembilan : Tampin Hill 

 (Goodenough 1844) ; Pahang: Tahan River, Kwala Tenok (Ridley); 

 Perak : Larut Hills (Scortechini 547a, 302b), Gunong Keledang (Curti3 

 3349), Bujong Malacca (Ridley), Goping (King's Coll. 4775), Gunong 

 Batu Putih (Wray 930) ; Kedah : Gunong Jerai (Ridley). 



Common in the hill woods from 1500 to 3400 feet elevation. 

 Endemic. 



4. Orania, Zippel. 



Tall stout unarmed simple-stemmed palms. Leaves large pinnate, 

 leaflets linear acuminate petiole stout, sheath short. Spathes 2 the 

 lower one short tubular, upper one large oblong. Inflorescence large 

 pendulous, many branched. Flowers small, all males on the ends of 

 the branches, lower ones in three female between two males. Male, 

 calyx short tufted. Petals oblong or lanceolate. Stamens 3 to 6 

 filaments subulate, anthers erect pistillodes conic. Females, calyx 

 short, petals ovate. Pistil conic, 3 angled 3 celled. Stigmas recurved 

 ovules pendulous. Fruit globose large, stigmas basilar. Seed globose 

 albumen equable. 



Species 4 or 5 Malayan. 



O. macrocladus, Mart Hist. Nat. Palm III. 186, 177, f. I. Stem 

 40 feet tall or more about 6 inches through smooth grey. Leaves 



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