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Flowers during the hot and rainy season ; fruit ripens the 

 following year. 



PINANGA GRIIFITHII, Becc. Males. Ill, 117 ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 VI, 407 ; Brandis Ind. Trees, 647. — Areca sp., Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. V, 461 (under A. gracilis, fruit only) ; Palms Brit. Ind., 155 to 23'J 

 (spadix only). 



Description. — Stem slender; leaves pinnatisect; leaflets numer- 

 ous, 3 to many-costate. 



Spadix reflexed, subdigitately branched ; peduncle of spadix 

 2 inches long; branches 3-5, spreading, not compressed. Calyx of 

 male flowers shorter than the petals. 



Fruits arranged spirally in 4 lines, ovoid, rather more than half 

 an inch long and \ inch broad, narrowed at the base, mammillate ; 

 pericarp thin ; albumen deeply ruminate. 



This palm is imperfectly known. I have only copied the meagre 

 descriptions given by Grifiith and Beccari. 



Habitat. — Khasia Hills. 



PINANGA MANII, Becc. Males. Ill, 178 ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 

 409 ; Brandis Ind. Trees, 647. — Areca costata, Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. 

 Beng. XLIII, II, 200 (excl. omnib. synon.) 



Description. — Trunk 50 feet high, 5-^ inches in diameter. 

 Leaves 15-20 feet long (6^ feet according to Hooker, I.e.) ; leaflets 

 very many, strongl}^ 1-3 nerved, 3 feet long, 3 inches broad, ensi- 

 form, straight, pale beneath ; leaf-sheaths 4 feet long, clasping the 

 stem. 



Spadix 19-20 inches long, shortly peduncled, branches 40-50, 

 spirally arranged, filiform, pendulous. Flowers biseriate. Male 

 sepals about as long as the petals. 



Fruit small, f ^ by -^ — j§ inch, ovoid from an acute base ; seed 

 subglobose ; raphe reticulate ; albumen densely ruminate. 



Habitat. — Nicobar Islands ; South Andaman Islands. 



PINANGA KUBLII, Bl. in Bull. Neerl. (1838) 65; Eumph, II, 

 82, t. Ill and ,8 t. Ill, f. 11-13 ; Kunth. Enum. Ill, 641 ; Miq. pi. Jungh. 

 57 ; Scheff. in Natuurk. Tijdsch. Ned. Ind. XXXII, 182 ; in Ann. Jard. 

 Bot. Buitenz I, 152 ; Becc. Males. Ill, 138 ; Hook. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 409 ; 

 Brandis Ind. Trees 647 — P. costata, Bl. in Bull. N^erl, I.e. ; Eumph. I.e. 80, 

 1. 109 and /3 1. 109 C. ; Kunth. I.e. ; Miq. I.e. 156 ; Kunz. For. Fl. II, 538, F.— 

 Seaforthia KuUii, Mart. Hist. Nat Palm, 111. 185, 313— >S. oryzcsformis, 

 Mart. I.e. 185, ed. I. (excl. omnib. syn. except. Gaert.) — P. noxa, Bl. in 

 Rumphia II, 81, t. 110, A — E. — P. coronata, Bl. in Rumphia II, 83, t. 112, 

 113, — s. costata, Mart. 1 c. 313. — Ptt/chosperma kuklii, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. Ill, 

 21, De Palm. Archip. Ind. 23. — P. costata, Miq. 11. cc. 26, 23. — Areca 

 oryzcafonnis, Gaertn. Fruct. I, 20, t. 7, f . 2, 6 (non Rumph.) 



Description. — Stem soboliferous, 20 — 30 feet high (10 feet 

 according to Becc). Leaves 3 — 4 feet long, pinnate, with rather 

 narrow confluent end-pinnse ; leaflets 1 — 2 feet long, linear to 



