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Uses. — The poorer eloRHeR e.it the imt as ,i substitute for the 

 common betel-iiiit;, but no other part of the tree appears to be 

 ('T)i])l()y('(l Coi" ;i,iiy iihcIViI ]3urpose. 



PINANGA JIOOKERIANA, Becc. Midos. Ill, 17r> ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. 

 Ind. VI, 410. 



Description. — Stem slender, 3-4 feet liigh ; intei-nodes clavate, 

 yonng scurfy ; petiole and rhacliis of leaves scurfy. Leaves 4^ feet 

 long; leafle^ts numerous, opposite, one foot long, narrowly linear- 

 lanceolate, subfalcate, acuminate, t^-8-ribbed, 3-4-keeled above, 

 terminal lobe bifid ; petiole G inches long. 



Spathe 4 inches long; spadix 8-4 inches long with a slender 

 peduncle and 4-5 slender brandies which are compressed, flexuose 

 and crowded with flowers. Male flowers : calyx 3-toothed, mem- 

 branous ; petals unequal, much longer than the sepals; stamens 

 about 15; pistillode 0. l^V^malc flowers: sepals and petals suli- 

 equal ; stigma large, discoid; ataniinodes 0. Fruit al)Out ■^'incii 

 long by \ inch, diameter, ellipsoid, narrowed at the top. (Hooker.) 



llAHrrAT. — Khasia Hills, 2-4000 feo^t ; Nunklow and Ohurra. 



PINANGA. HYMEN08PATHA, Hook. f. hloni Brit. lud. VI, 411. 



DeschiptioN. — Stem slender, as thick as a goose-quill; inter- 

 nodes long. Petiole and rhaclus of leaves, slender, scurfy. Leaves 

 12-14 by 4-5 inches, leaflets very numerous, 15-20 pairs, regidarly 

 close set, 3-4 by ^-^ inch, alternate, flat, thin, narrowly ensiform, 

 finely acuminate, unicostate, dark-green above and brownish 

 beneath when dry ; rib slender, prominent on bolh surfaces ; petiole 

 3 incOies long, svditerete ; sheath 3-4 inches long, striate. 



Spathe 1-^ inch long, ellipsoidly fusiform, erect, quite membran- 

 ous, subhyaline. Spadix very short, about as long as tbe spathe, 

 flowering to the base. Male flowers : flat, imbricate, \ inch in 

 diameter, trapezoidly orbicular ; dorsal sepals twice as long as the 

 others, apiculate ; stamens 9, unequal ; fllnnients very short, anthers 

 linear. Female flowers minute, globose; ovarj^ ovoid; stiguia 

 pulvinate; ovule erect. (Hooker.) 



Habitat. — Bm-ma; at Moulmein. 



Hooker calls this palm " a very distinct species remarkable for 

 its meudiranous spathe and very elegant form." 



* -' INTKODUCED SPECIES. 



PINANGA TARADOXA, Schett'. in Natmirk. Tijdsch. Nod. 1ml. 

 XXXll, 81 ; Becc. Males. Ill, 129, in nota ; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI, 411 ; 

 Ridley. Fl. Malay. Ponins., II, '[Al.—Areca cunrtta, Griff. Notul., Ill, 164 

 {partim). — Arccn 'pfnrido.ra, Griff, in Calc. Journ. Nat. Hist. V, 463 ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind., 156, quoad descriptionem fructus ot tignram ejusdem in t. 

 CCXXXVII, C. f. ] ] .—Kentia pamdoxa. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm., Ill, 312.— 



