Pinanga.'] CXLIII. PALMED. (Beccari t t Hook, f.) 409 



Stem 2-6 ft. by in. ; internodes 2-2^ in., brown-scurfy. Leaves 9-12 by 

 in., glabrous; petiole 6-10 in., subterete; sbeath 4 iu., tubular, scui'fy ; 

 ligule scarious, fimbriate. Spadix with its stout peduncle f iu. long, branches 

 sinuous, few-fid. Fruit about i by in., red. Seed narrowed at the tip ; raphe 

 with 5 branches ; albumen very faintly ruminate. 



** Leaves much divided. 



f Spadix large, much branched. 



9. P. XVXanii, Becc. Males, iii. 178; trunk tall stout, leaves large, 

 leaflets very many strongly 1-3-nerved, spadix reflexed stoutly peduncled, 

 "branches filiform pendulous, male sepals about as long as the petals, fruit 

 small ovoid from an acute base, seed subglobose. Areca costata, Kurz in 

 Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 200. excl. all. synons. 



NICOBAR ISLANDS, Man. SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLDS., Kurz. 



Trunk 50 ft. by 5| in. diam. Leaves 6^ ft. ; leaflets ensiform, straight, longest 

 (middle) about 30 in. by 1^-3| broad, 2-3-partite, pale beneath. Spadix 19-20 in. 

 long, shortly peduncled, branches 45-50 spirally arranged ; flowers 2-seriate. Fruit 

 _*_ by -rV~Tij ; pericarp thin. Seed with reticulate raphe, albumen densely 

 ruminate. 



10. P. Kuhlii, Blume in Bull. Neerl 1838, 65; Rumph. ii. 82, t. Ill 

 et t. Ill, f. 11-13 ; stems tufted slender, leaves pinnate, leaflets many 

 falcate linear to linear-lanceolate finely acuminate strongly 2-3-ribbed 

 upper confluent, petiole subscurfy, spadix refracted shortly peduncled 

 robust simply branched glabrous, branches elongate, fruit obovoid or 

 ellipsoid shortly apiculate. Kunth JEnum. iii. 641 ; Miq. PI. Jungh. 57 ; 

 Scheff. in Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 182; in Ann. Jard. Bot. 

 Buitenz. i. 152 ; Becc. Males, iii. 138. P. costata, Bl. in Bull Neerl. I. c. ; 

 RumpUa I. c. 80, t. 109 et t. 109 C.; Kunth I.e. ; Miq. 1. c. 156; Kurz, 

 For. Fl. ii. 538. Seaforthia, Kuhlii, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. Ed. 2, 185, 

 313. S. oryzseformis, Mart. 1. c. Ed. 1, 185 (excl. all syns. but Gsertn.) ; 

 Kunth 1. c. 191. S costata, Mart. I. c. 313. Ptychosperma, Kuhlii, Miq. 

 FL Ind. Bat. iii. 21 ; De Palm. Archip. 2nd. 23. P. costata, Miq. II. cc. 

 25, 23. Areca oryzaeformis, Gsertn. Fruct. i. 20, t. 7, f. 2, 6 (not of 

 Rumph.). 



SOUTH ANDAMAN ISLANDS, Kurz. DISTEIB. Sumatra, Java. 



Stem soboliferous, 20-30 ft. (Kurz), (10 ft., Becc.). Leaves 3-4 ft.; leaflets 

 1-2 ft. ; petiole variable in length. Spadix 1 ft. Fruit nearly in. long. Seed 

 adherent to the pericarp ; albumen deeply ruminate. The above is chiefly from 

 Kurz's P. costata in For. Fl. It may be the P. coronata mentioned by Kurz in his 

 Andaman Report as abundant iu the South Andaman Islands. 



tf Spadix with few distichous branches. 



11. P. Dicksonii, Blttme Rumph. ii. 85 ; trunk solitary tall, leaves 

 pinnate, leaflets numerous elongate broadly linear pra3morse 5-7-nerved, 

 uppermost confluent, spadix refracted branches 4-8, male sepals subulate 

 nearly equalling the petals, stamens 20-30, fruit ovoid or oblong. Scheff. 

 in Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. 174 ; in Ann. Jard. Buitenz. i. 149 ; Becc. 

 Males, i. 138. Areca Dicksonii, Roxb. FL Ind. iii. 616 ; Griff, in Journ. As. 

 Soc. Beng. v. 458 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 153, t. 231. Seaforthia Dicksonii, 

 Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 184, 313; Kunth Enum. iii. 190. 



WESTERN GHATS ; on the Nilghiri and Travancore hills, alt. 2500 ft. 



Trunk 16-18 ft. by about 2 in. diam. Leaves 4 ft., forked ; leaflets sessile, 



