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peduncle for a long time. Flowers monoecious in cavities of the 

 rhachis which are covered by a persistent scale, glumaceous, surround- 

 ed by bracteoles. Each glomerule consisting of two male flowers 

 (one of which opens several days before the other) and one female 

 which develops a long time after the male flowers. Calyx triphyl- 

 lous, sepals cucullate, narrowly imbricate. Corolla deeply tripartite; 

 segments before opening valvate (according to Blume) but ' segments 

 of female flowers distinctly imbricate' (according to Scheffer). 

 Male flowers : Stamens very numerous ; filaments subulate, conflu- 

 ent at the base of the corolla ; anthers linear ; rudimentary ovary 

 present. Female flowers : Ovary incompletely trilocular ; stigma 

 simple, sessile ; rudimentary stamens small. 



Fruit about li inches long and li] — 11 inch in diameter, crown- 

 ed by 3 dentiform patent stigmas. Seed globular, about f inch in 

 diameter, often slightly irregular. 



Species. — About Sf. 



Distribution. — Moluccas and New Guinea. 



CALYFTROCALYX SPICATU8, Bl., Rumph. II, 103, t. 102, D, 118. 

 161 ; Miqnel Fl. Incl. Bat. Ill, et de Palm. Arc. Ind. 26 ; Scheffer in Ann.. 

 Jard. Bot. Buit. I, 131 ; Kunth. Enum. PI. Ill, 643 ; Walpers Ann. Ill, 468, 

 V, 814; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 230, 317; H. Wendl. in Kerch. 

 Palm., p. 238 ; Becc. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buit. II, 142. — Areca spicata 

 Lam. Enc. Bot. I, 241, No. 2 ; Willd. Sp. PI. IV, 595, No. 4 ; Sprang. 

 Syst. Veg. n, 139, No. 4; Mart. 1. c. 179, No. 13. — Euterpe globosa 

 Geertn. Fruct. I, 24, quoad Rumphii citatum, non quoad fruct. descriptum 

 et t.g. illustratum (fide Mart.) 



Pinanx/a globosa Rumph. Herb. Amb. I, 38, t. 5, f. 1, A. 



Names. — Nibung, Pinang utan, bezaar (Malay.) ; Hua niwel,. 

 Hua ewan (Amboina) ; Hena Hena (Ternate) (ex Blume 1. c.),. 

 ..^hrige Haiibenkelch-Palme (German). 



Description.— Stem erect, cylindrical, up to 40 feet high, 7-10 

 inches in diameter, annulate, scars subequidistant. Leaves many, 

 the lower ones spreading, 8-12 feet long, oblong in outline,. 

 divided into narrow segments ; petiolar sheath elongate-cylindric, 

 narrow, coriaceous, furfuraceous with minute fuscous scales ; petiole 

 short, convex on the dorsal side ; rhachis triquetrous. Segments, 

 numerous, obliquely adnate by means of callosities, siibalternately 

 arranged, linear, very acuminate, entire or divided at the apex 

 into two short unequal teeth, longitudinally plicate, the median 

 lateral ones elongate, 2-2^ feet long, 2-2|- inches broad, the lower 

 ones narrower and shorter, subreclinate, the upper ones gradiially 

 more approximate, miTch narrower than the median ones and not 

 reaching more than 15 inches at the apex. 



t The four species not mentioned here (C- Albertisianus, Becc, C. leptostachys: 

 Becc, C- p'achystachys, BecC; C-laxiflorus, Becc.) have been described by Beccari 

 in Webbia I, (1<J05) 305-313. 



