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THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON, 

 INDIGENOUS AND INTRODUCED: 



BY 



E. Blatter, b.-J. 



Part XIV. 

 (With Plate Ixxx.) 

 (Continued from jpacje 744 of Volume XXIII.) 



PINANQA, Bl. ill Runiph. II, 76, t. 87, 108A, 109-116. 



(From the vernacular name " Pinang.") 



Mart. Hist. Palm. Ill, 183.— Griff. Palms Brit. Incl. 146, t. 230 C, 2-31, 

 282, A, B, C, 235.— Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 20 (1, 3, 5-20).— SchefF. 

 Natimrk. Tijclsch. Ned. Ind. 32, 171.— Kurz For. Fl. II, 538.--Wendl. und 

 Drude. Linnsea, 39, 176.— Driide, Bot. Zeitg. 1877, t. 5, fig. 12, 13.— 

 Benth. and Hook. Gen. PI. Ill, II, 884, 3.— Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 406. 



Unarmed; stem erect, annulate. Leares pinnate, with the upper 

 leaflets confluent. 



Flowers inoncecious, androgynous, ternate, 1 female between 2 

 males, the clusters in 2 or 4 or 6 series on spadices from the stem 

 below the leaves ; spathe solitary. Male flowers obliquely 3 - 

 quetrous ; sepals 3, acute, keeled, not imbricate ; petals 3, ovate or 

 lanceolate, valvate ; stamens 6 or more ; anthers subsessile, basifixed, 

 erect. Female flowers much smaller than the males, ovoid or 

 globose ; sepals 3, orbicular, imbricate ; petals 3, orbicular, broadly 

 imbricate ; ovary 1 -celled ; stigmas 3 ; ovule basilar, erect. 



Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, pericarp fibrous ; seed ovoid or ellipsoid ; 

 albumen ruminate ; embryo basilar. Species about 45. 



DiSTEiBUTiON. — Indo-Malayan 1 . New species have been described by Beccaii 

 in Webbia I (1905), p. 316-27 and III (1910), p. 193. 



Cultivation in Europe. — The species of this genus are stove 

 palms. They thrive best in a compost of one part loam, two of 

 peat, and a little sand. A liberal supply of water is necessary. 

 Propagated by seeds. 



* INDIGENOUS SPECIES. 



PINANGA HEXASTICHA, Scheff. in Ann. Jard. Bot.Buitenz. I, 148 ; 

 Kurz For. Fl. II, 539 ; Becc. in Ann. Jard Bot. Buitenz. II, 80, 86 ; Males. 

 Ill, 122 ; Hook Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 406 ; Brandis Ind. Trees, 647.— ^reca 

 hexasticha, Kurz. in Journ. As, Soc. Beng. XLIII, II, 201, t. 12. 



Description. — An evergreen, slender, simple-stemmed, gre- 

 garious palm ; stem 20-30 feet high, 1^ inch in diameter. Leaves 

 3-5 feet long, pinnate, with the end-pinnee confluent ; leaflets 

 linear, somewhat falcate, 1-1 ■!■ feet long, many, alternate, 2-3 

 ribbed, many nerved, the lower acuminate, the upper and terminal 



