Pinanga. | PALME. 539 
glabrous, either the female flowers for themselves on separate 
spadices, or each accompanied by 2 males ; flowers in 3 series ; sepals 
in females oval, bluntish, about a line long, the petals somewhat 
longer ; staminodes none ; calyx of male flowers minute, 3-cornered ; 
petals 3, obliquely cordate, acute, many times longer than the calyx ; 
stamens numerous ; ovary-rudiment none ; drupes ellipsoid-spindle- 
shaped, tapering at the apex, seated on the cup-shaped perianth, 
fleshy-fibrous, about 4 in. long or a little longer, smooth, scarlet or 
orange. 
Has.—Frequent in the tropical forests, especially in marshy localities, from 
Chittagong, Pegu and Martaban down to Tenasserim —Fl. H.S. & R.S.; Fr. the 
following year.—s.—SS.=SiS. Metam. 
3. P. hexasticha (Areca hewasticha, Kz.).—An evergreen slender, 
simple-stemmed gregarious palm (25—30+15—25+1—1}), the 
sheaths, ete., thinly scaly-rough, soon turning glabrous ; leaves $ to 5 
ft. long, pinnate, with the end-pinne confluent, on a short 3 to 4 in. 
2-lobed lobes as there are ribs; flowers sessile, spirally arrang 
into 5, higher up into 6, grooved rows along the simple reflexed spike 
up to a foot long, the rachis as thick as the finger, fleshy ; female 
perianth (in young fruit) very much like that of A. gracilis, the 
about a line long or a little longer ; staminodes apparently none ; 
unripe fruits fibrous-fleshy, smooth, spindle-shaped and narrowed at 
apex. 
Has.—In marshy places of the tropical forests of the southern parts of the 
_— Yomah, as, for example, between Kyauzoo and Kya Eng (Pazwoondoung 
valley). 
Cocos, L. 
Flowers monoecious in the same spadix, sessile, bracted, the 
males more on the upper branchings. Spathe simple, woody, 
spindle- or club-shaped. Males: calyx 3-sepalled, the sepals 
late, keeled, often connate at the base. 4e 8, membranous 
or almost fleshy. Stamens 6, ‘nserted on the torus; filaments 
subulate ; anthers linear, almost sagittate, erect. Ovary-rudiment 
minute or wanting. Females: sepals 3, most orbicular, imbri- 
cate-convolute. Petals 3, usually included in the calyx, almost 
orbicular, imbricate-convolute. Ovary ovoid or depressed-globose, 
