536 PALME. [ Phenia. 
8. Ph. paludosa, Roxb.—Thin-bowng.—An_ evergreen soboli- 
ferous, often gregarious palm (8—25+3—15+1—1 4), with 
(in the females only half as long), brown-scurfy outside ; male 
and irregular; female flowers almost globular ; staminodes 6; 
drupes elliptically oblong, about 4 in. long, mucronate, smooth, 
supported by the cup-shaped perianth, yellowish, then orange and 
black-purple, 1-seeded ; albumen whitish. 
—Common in the tidal forests all over Burma from Chittagong down 
to Lo gS cting and the Andamans.—Fl. March-Apr.; Fr. June-Dec.—l. 
ARECA, L. 
ornumerous. Males: calyx 3-toothed or 3-sepalous, not imbrica 
in the bud; petals 3, valvate; stamens 3 or 6; filaments short ; 
anthers sagittate-linear. Ovary-rudiment present or not. Females: 
calyx 3-phyllous, and, like the petals, twisted-imbricate in the bud; 
nate.—Simple-stemmed or soboliferous palms, not armed, with 
innate or rarely almost simple or incompletely pinnate leaves. 
Flowers in panicled or rarely simple spikes. Drupes more oF less 
X Stamens 6 ; female flowers without a bract. 
Glabrous, simple-stemmed ; drupes as large asa hen’segg . + 4- catechu. 
Stamens 3; female flowers without a bract. 
Glabrous, simple-stemmed or stoloniferous : . 
L.— Kwam-thi-pen.—An_ evergreen simple 
_, A, triandra. 
1. A. catechu, L. pen. he 
stemmed palm (40—50 + 30—40+14—8), all parts glabrous, t 
