738 JOURNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIII. 



Name. — Pinang Ptmowun (Malay); OalappaPalm (English). 



Description. — Stem 40 feet high; crown dark green, ample. 

 Leaves pinnate ; petiole scurfy, plano-convex ; lamma 8-9 feet long, 

 4-4^ broad, in outline lanceolate-acuminate ; pinnae 2 feet long, 1^- 

 1^ inches broad, linear, acuminate, unequally bipartite shining, 

 very smooth, uppermost inequilateral, sub-erose at the top ; central 

 vein and 5 others forming as many heels above, the central under- 

 neath bearing scales attached by the base. 



Spadis ascending altogether green, branches stiff, stout, above 

 liexuose-torulose owing to niches in which the flowers are lodged, 

 Spathes 2. Lower flowers : 1 female between 2 males, upper males 

 in pairs. Male flowers small ; sepals imbricate, carinate, hard, much 

 shorter than the corolla, inargins sub-meiiibranous, denticulate, 

 inner rather the longest. Corolla valvate, hard, tripartite to the 

 base ; petals oblong-lanceolate, sub-obtiTse. Stamens 24-30, in 

 bundles, anthers linear-sagittate, pistillode small, subulate or none. 

 Female flowers : sepals and petals imbricate with very broad bases. 

 Staminodes 3 or none. Ovary large, white, oblong, 1-celled, sub- 

 compressed, divided at the apex into 3-cuneate, subrecurved lobes, 

 each with a line of stigmatic tissue along the central line of the 

 inner face; ovule 1, attached nearly along its whole length. 



Fruiting spadix spreading ; branches angular, thickened at the 

 base. Fruit pendulous from its weight, ovate, size of a duck's Qgg, 

 surrounded at the base by the perianth, at the apex presenting the 

 3 styles; colour orange-yellow; pericarp thick, firm, of yellow 

 cellular tissue and longitudinal fibres, which are more numerous 

 towards the putamen. Putamen thin, hard, crustaceous. Seed 1, 

 erect ; tegument thin, shining, light brown ; albumen densely 

 horny, much ruminate ; embryo basilar. 



Habitat. — Malay Archipelago. 



Illustration.— Plate LXXV shows a fully developed specimen of 

 the Galappa Palm growing in the Botanic Garden of Peradeniya. At 

 the base of the leaf-sheaths an unexpanded spadix may be seen 

 whilst a little lower down at least four fruiting spadices are visible. 

 The photograph was taken by Mr. Macmillan. 



PTYGHORAPHIS, Becc, Males, I, 53, cf.Beccari in Ann. Jard. 

 Bot. Buit., II, 90 ; Males, III, 109; Webbia, I (1905), p. 327. 



(From the Greek "ptychos, " folded, wrinkled, and"raphis, " 

 needle, pin.) 



Stem slender, annulate. Leaves pinnatisect, leaflet's narrow, 

 caudate-acuminate. 



Spathes 2, complete, caducous. Spadix infrafoliar, paniculately 

 branched. Flowers spirally disposed, male only towards the tips of 



