Pinanga.'] CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 411 



KHASIA HILLS; alt. 2-4000 ft., Griffith, J. D. H., &c. (in Herb. Webb.}, 

 Nunklow and Churra, Clarke. 



Stem 3-4 ft. ; internodes clavate, young scurfy. Leaves 4^ ft. ; leaflets opposite, 

 1 ft. long, much obliquely acuminate, 3-4-keeled above, terminal lobe 2-fid ; petiole 

 Gin. Spathe 4 in., oblong, S padix 3-i m. ; branches compressed, flexuose, flowers 

 crowded. Malefl. calyx membranous 3-toothed ; petals very unequal ; stamens about 

 15; pistillode 0. Fern. fl. sepals aud petals subequal; staminodes ; stigma large, 

 discoid. Fruit about | in. long by diam., narrowed at the top. Seed of the same 

 shape. This is the plant alluded to by Griffith (Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1. c. 462), 

 and described us probably a form of A. gracilis collected by Major Jenkins and him- 

 self in the Khasia hills and Assam, and of which he says, in a footnote, " Stem and 

 leaves much the same as in A. gracilis, spadices slenderer 3-4-times branched, fern. fl. 

 distichous distant." The above is from Malesia. I have seen no specimen. 



ttt Spadix unbranched. 



16. P. hymenospatha, Hook.f.- stem slender, petiole and rachis of 

 leaves slender scurfy, leaflets very numerous faloately very narrowly 

 ensiform finely acuminate unicostate, spadix very short, spathe fusiform 

 terete acuminate membranous, male fl. flat imbricate. 



BURMA ; at Moulmein, Lobb. 



Stem as thick as a goose-quill ; internodes long. Leaves 12-14 by 4-5 in. j 

 leaflets 3-4 by 35 in., very numerous (15-20 pairs) quite regularly close set, alternate, 

 flat, thin, dark green above and brownish beneath when dry, costa slender, pro- 

 minent on both surfaces ; petiole 3 in., subterete ; sheath 3-4 in., striate. SpatTie 

 1 in., ellipsoidly fusiform, erect, quite membranous, subhyaline. Spadix as long as 

 the spadix, flowering to the base. Male fl. closely imbricating, % in. diam., trapezoidly 

 orbicular ; dorsal sepals twice as long as the others, apiculate ; stamens 9, unequal ; 

 filaments very short, anthers linear. Fern. fl. minute, globose; ovary ovoid, stigma 

 pulvinate, ovule erect. A very distinct species remarkable for its membranous 

 spathe and very elegant foliage. 



17. P. paradoxa, Scheff. in Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 31 : 

 stem slender, leaves entire or pinmtisect with few broid 3- or more- 

 nerved leaflets, spadix short decurved, fruit very narrow tapering from 

 above the base to the obtuse tip ot'teu curve 1. Becc. Males, iii. 129, in 

 note. Areca curvata, Griff. Notul. iii. 164, partly, a? to the descr. 

 (not Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 248). A. paradoxa, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 v. 463 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 156, as to desc. of fruit, and fig. of fruit, t. 

 ccxxxvii. 0, f. 11. Kentia paradoxa, Mirt. JfisL Nat. Palms. Ill, 312. 

 Nengel la paradoxa, Becc. Males, i. 32. Ophiria piradoxa, Becc. in Ain. 

 Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 128. Cladosperma, N.G. Griff. Notul. iii. 165. 



MALACCA; foot of Mt. Ophir, Griffith. PEBAK, alb. 3-1000 ft., Scortechini 

 (427 b , 2413) ; on Gunong Bitu, Wray. 



Stem 3-6 ft., very slender, in. diam.; interuodes 1-2 in. Leaves I ft. long, 

 entire and oblong, or with 3-3 pairs of siguaoidly linear-lanceolate acuminate leaflets 

 with a broad base, 4-5 in. long by $-f broad; petiole 1-lj ft., very slender and 

 rachis scurfy; terminal lobe deeply forked, toothed ; sheath long, deeply striate. 

 Fruiting spadix 2-2 ^ in. long, slender, nearly glabrous; peduncle short, fruits 

 distichous, f in. long by broad, red ; albumen equable. 



DOUBTFUL SPECIES. 



18. P.VA.TUL,Blumei*u,U.Nerl. 1838, 65; Rumpkia, ii. 86, 87, t. 115; 



Kunth EHUW. iii. 641; Karz in Journ. As. Soc. Seng. xlii. ii. 20L ; Scheff in 

 Nataark Tijdwh. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 176 (partly and excl. all vars.) ; in Ann. Jard. 

 B>t. Biit. i. 150 (oartly as to descr.), t. 18, f. 4. t. 19; Becc. Kales, iii. 139. 

 patula, Mart. Nat. Hist. Palm. 323. Poychosperma patula, Miq. PL 



