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Wallichia.| PALME. 533 
2-celled; drupes oblong, surrounded at the base by the perianth, 
scanty fleshy, 2-seeded, about 4 in. long. 
Hazs.—Chittagong. 
3. W. Yomea, Kz. (WV. disticha, Kz., not T. And.).—Zanoung.— 
An evergreen simple-stemmed palm (8—15+38—442—3), the 
young parts, sheaths, etc., greyish scurfy-tomentose, the leaves 
placed in a 4 spiral, the trunk brown, scared; leaves 6-10 ft. long, 
pinnate, the long petiole, rachis, and sheaths greyish tomentose and 
brown-scurfy ; pinne 2-3 ft. long, linear to elongate linear-oblong, 
cuneately narrowed at the base, beneath indistinctly white-tomentose, 
irregularly lobed, strongly 1-ribbed with many parallel nerves, the 
lobes rounded to acute, sharply erose-toothed ; flowers sessile, small, 
in ample panicle-like nodding spadices, the ramifications of the males 
strong, about 14 lin. thick, rather stiff, those of the females about 
4 in. thick or thicker; male flowers small, green or greenish purple ; 
calyx minute, cup-shaped, only 4 lin. deep, broadly and truncately 
3-toothed ; petals linear-lanceolate, about 14 lin. long; stamens 6; 
female flowers depressed-globular; calyx minute, 3-lobed ; petals 
“ee acute, about a line long; ovary depressed-globular, -3. 
celled. 
Has.—Not unfrequent in the upper mixed forests of the eastern slopes of the 
Yomah and on the spurs of the Kambala toung.—Fl. Apr.—s—l.—S8.= 
i8. 
ARENGA, Lab. 
Flowers monoecious, generally but not always in separate in- 
florescences, sessile, supported by bracts or bractlets. Female 
flowers in the male spadices rudimentary, 2-bracteoled, each 
cuspidate. Female perianth nearly that of the males; stamiodes 
none; ovary 3-celled, with a solitary ascending ovule in each cell. 
Drupes 2- or 3-pyrenous, the pyrenes 3-gonous. Albumen homo- 
geneous. Embryo dorsal.—Erect palms, with simple stems often 
covered with the black fibrous remains of the leaf-sheaths. Leaves 
innate, more or less whitish beneath, the pinnae produced at the 
into 1 or 2 auricles. Spadix panicle-shaped, simply branched, 
large, nodding. 
1. A, saccharifera, Lab.— Zowng-ong.—An evergreen palm (20— 
40+5—10+3—5), the trunk, especially upwards, covered with the 
petioles and netted, strong, black, fibrous remnants of the sheaths, 
the sheaths, ete., blackish scurfy; leaves 20-25 ft. long, pmnate, on 
