713 



The foliage is always a fresh green, and the fruit does not appear 



to be eaten by animals (Beccari, Wand. Gr. Forests, Borneo, 



Eng. Ed. p. 27). 



It is a tree 40-50 ft. high and upwards; trunk, 6 in. or so 



in diam., uniformly straight. Leaves about 6 ft. long, Spadix 

 including male and female flowers. Fruit about 2 in. long, 

 orange or bright red in colour' when ripe. 



i?e/. — '* Semen Arecae," in Pharmaeographia, Fliickiger & 



Hanbury, pp. 669-672. " Areca Catechu,'' in Med. PL, 



Bentley & Trimen, No. 276, 6 pages. *' The Areca or Betel 



Nut Pahn,'' in Diet. Econ. Prod. India, Watt. i. 1889, pp. 291- 



301.- ^Cultivation of the Betel Nut Palm in the Bombay 



Presidency, MoUison, in Agric. Ledger, No. 4, 1900, pp. 31-39. 

 — — " A Plague in the Betel Nut Palms : Report on a Tour in 



Eastern Bengal,'' Watt. I.e. No. 8, 1901, pp. 129-179. -" Areca 



Catechu" in *' The Palms of British India and Ceylon," Blatter, 

 in Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. xxiv. 1916, pp. 329-338. 



PoDococcus, Mann & Wendl. 



Fodococcus Barter!, Mann & Wendl. ; Fl. Trop. Air. VIIT. 



p. 100. 



Ill— Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 1864, t. 38, f. A, t. 40, f. B, 

 t. 43, f. A. 



Brass (Barter No. 1837, Herb. Kew); River Nun (Niger) 



and in the Gaboon. 



Fruit edible, very fragrant (Barter, I.e.). 

 Stem erect, 5-8 ft. high, slender — 9 lin. diam. 



ScLEROSPERMA, Mann & Wendl. 



Sclerosperma Mannii, WendL; Fl. Trop. Afr. VIIT. p. 101. 



/ZZ.— Trans. Linn. Soc. xxiv. 1864, t. 38, f, C, t. 40, f. A. 



Gaboon — ^in swampy places — no specimen from Nigeria, but 

 probably not limited to the Gaboon. 



Leaves used for roofing and constructing the walls of huts, 

 being tied between the petioles of Raphia (Mann & Wendland, 

 Trans. Linn. Soc. I.e. p. 426). 



A slender-caespitose palm, stem short; leaves, 10-13 ft. 



long. 



Arenga, LabilL 



Arenga saccliarifera, LabilL in Mem. Inst. Par. iv. (1801), 



p. 209. 



20-40 ft. high. Leaves manv, 20-28 



115 in each side 3-5 ft. long. Male spadix 4-5 ft., simply 

 branched. Female flowers soUtary, 1 in. in diam. Fruit 

 2-2i in. long,, oblong-turbinate, base narrowed, top rounded or 



VI 



Gomuti Palm 



