414 CLXIII. PALMED. (Beccari & Hook, f.) [Ptyclwr aphis. 



2. P. augrusta, Becc. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 90 ; Males, iii. 

 110; trunk very tall, leaflets numerous 2-3 ft., spadix decompound, 

 fruit elliptic-oblong. Areca augusta, Kurz in Journ. Bot. 1875, 331, 

 t. 170. 



NICOBAB ISLANDS ; in woods in Karaorta, Kurz. 



Trunk slender, 80-100 ft. by 1 ft. diam. Leaves 8-12 ft. ; leaflets sessile, 

 narrowly linear, acuminate, 3-costate ; petiole very short ; rachis flat above, furf u- 

 raceously tomentose. Spadix decompound, 2^3% ft. Male fl. bracts broad smooth ; 

 sepals broadly ovate ; petals oblong, obtuse. Fern. fl. sepals and petals nearly 

 alike, concave, imbricate. Fruit 1 in. long, elliptic -oblong, scarlet. Seed oblong. 



6. CYRTOSTACHYS, Blume. 



Stems slender, crespitose, annulate. Leaves pinnatisect ; leaflets 

 linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1-costate. Spathes 2, complete, caducous. 

 Spadix infrafoliar, shortly peduncled, broadly paniculately branched ; 

 branches 1-2 ft. long, stout, spreading ; flowers in spirally disposed 

 clusters of 3, a fern, between 2 males. Male fl. symmetrical ; sepals 

 orbicular, imbricate ; petals valvate ; stamens 12-15, exserted ; anthers 

 short, versatile; pistillode 2-fid. FL fern. ; sepals orbicular; petals 

 longer, broadly imbricate, tips valvate ; staminodes forming a membranous 

 cup ; ovary narrowly ovoid ; stigmas subulate ; ovule pendulous from the 

 tip of the cell. Fruit small, ovoid, stigma terminal. Seed adherent to the 

 endocarp, globose, hilum apical; albumen equable; embryo basilar. 

 Species 2, Malayan. 



1. C. Xiakka, Becc. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. ii. 141 ; fruit conico- 

 ovoid gradually narrowed to the tip, seed ovoid. C. Lakka var. singa- 

 porensis, Becc. I. c. 



SINGAPORE; in humid jungles. DISTRIB. Borneo. 



A slender tall soboliferous Palm. Leaves about 4 ft. ; leaflets about 20 by 

 1-li in., upper shorter obtuse or toothed, green above, ashy grey beneath ; sheath 

 red. Fruit '-^ in. long, by about -fa diam. Very near C. Rendah of Sumatra, 

 which has an ovoid fruit abruptly constricted at the tip, and a globose seed. 



7. ONCOSPERITCA, Blume. 



Prickly palms. Leaves terminal, pinnatisect. Spathes 2, complete. 



adix infrafoliar, branched ; branches with solitary male flowers above, 

 and ternate flowers below (a fern, between 2 males). Male fl. asymmetric ; 

 sepals suborbicular, acute; petals obliquely ovate, valvate. Stamens 

 6-12 ; anthers elongate ; pistillode columnar, 3-fid. Fern. fl. globose ; 

 sepals and petals orbicular, imbricate; staminodes 6; ovary obliquely 

 ovoid, 1-3-celled ; stigmas minute ; ovule parietal. Fruit small, globose, 

 stigmas lateral or basal. Seed suborbicular, raphe broad ; albumen deeply 

 ruminate. Species 5-6, Malayan. 



1. O. filamentosa, Bhime, Rumpkia ii. 97, t. 82, 103; stoloniferous, 

 leaflets subequidistant drooping, male fl. hexandrous, fruit spherical 

 ^y in. diam. O. cambodianum, Hance in Journ. Bot. (1876) 261. Areca 

 tigillaria, Jack in Mai. Misc. ii. vii. 88 (in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. iv. 

 12); Griff, in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 423; Palms Brit. Ind. 157, 

 t. 133 B. A. Nibung, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 173, 311, t. 153. 



