Finanf^a.] clxiii. PALMBffl;. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 407 



upper truncate, tootUed. Spaiix about 1 ft. long ; raehis as thick as the fingi^r, 

 fleshy ! flowers sessile, rows spirally arranged. Fruit narrowed at the top. 



2. P. gracilis, Blume, Hamph. ii. 77 ; stems slender usually gre- 

 garious, leaves sparingly pinnate, petiole scurfy, spadix simple reflexed, 

 male fl. in 3 rows, fruiting spadix pendulous, fruit ellipsoidly fusiform. Kurz 

 For. Fl. ii. 538 ; Becc. in Ann. Jard. But. Buitenz. ii. 81, 86; Males, iii. 122. 

 Pinanga patula^. gracilis, Scheff. in Natuurk. Tijdseh. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 178. 

 Seaforthia gracilis. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 185 {Ed. 2, 184) 313; 

 Kuntk Fnum. iii. 191. Areca gracilis, Boxb. Fl. Ind. iii 619 ; Cfriff. m 

 Cale. Jotirn. Nat. Blist. v. 460 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 154, t. 232 A, 0, f. 2 

 (not B) F^urz in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xliii. ii. 201. T. Anders, in Journ. 

 Linn. Soc. xi. 5. Neuga gracilis, Beeo. Males, i. 25. A. triandra, Boxb. ? 

 Wall. Oat. 8599. 



SiKKiM and Bhotan Himalaya, alt. 2-3000 ft., J.D.ff. Assam, the Khasia 

 Hills, and CniiTAaoNa to Tenasseeim. Eomburgh, Sfc 



Utems 6-20 ft. by ^-^ in. diam., thickened upward. Leaves 3-4 ft. ; petiole and 

 sheaths scurfy; leaflets inserted by a very broad base, 1 ft. long or more, lower 2-3- 

 ribbed finely acuminate, upper 3-5 in. broad preemorse many-ribbed. Upathe 

 solitary, 2-fid. Spadix white or scarlet, glabrous. Male jl. broad, flat, imbricating ; 

 calyx minute ; petals broad, cuspinately acuminate. IFmit i in. long, scarlet or 

 orange, tapering to tlic tip,. smooth. 



3. P. G-rlffithii, Beer.. Males, iii. 117 ; stem ? leaves pinnatisect 

 leaflets numerous, spadix peduncled reflexed subdigitately branched, 

 branches 4 spreading, male calyx shorter than the petals, fruits spirally 

 disposed in 4 series ovoid narrowed at the mamillate tip. Areca sp. Qnff'. 

 in Gale. Journ. Nat. Hist. v. 461 {imder A. gracilis, fruit only) ; Palms 

 Brit. Ind. 55, t. 232 {spadix only). 



Kh A SI A H ILLS J Griffith. 



Stem apparently very slender. Peduncle of spadix^ in., branches 3-5, spreading, 

 not compressed. Fruit ruther more than i in. long by i diam., narrowed at tlie 

 base, mamillate, pericarp thin, albumen deeply ruminate. — Beccari (Males. 1. c.) has 

 founded his P. Griffithii on the spadix with tetrastichous fruits described by Griflith, 

 but regards the leaves (only supposed by tbe latter author to belong to it, and whicli 

 are simple and forked) to belong to another plant. In the diagnosis of P. Griffithii 

 ("Malesia," 1. c.) there is no description of the leaves, bat the author has added in 

 pencil " piunatiiiect, segment:* nunerous S-inany-costate." 



4. P. polymorpha, Becc. Males, iii. 172 ; stem slender, leaves short 

 subentire forked or more or less pinnatifid, petiole very slender, sheath 

 not grooved, spadix slender refracted after flowering simple or 2-3-partite, 

 branches short, fl. .3-4-seriate, fruit small ellipsoid or obovoid subacute, 

 base narrowed. 



Malay Peninsula; Singapore, Lobb ; Perak, alt. 3-4000 ft., Scortechini (n. 345 

 a.). King's GoUector (n. 8072). 



Stems solitary, ^-J in. diam., internodes 2^-4 in. long. Leaves very variable, 

 8-12 in. long, with 1-6 many-oostate leaflets on each side and a broad flabelliform 

 forked apex; petiole variable and sheath scaly. SpatAe elliptic, acute. Spadix S~5 in. 

 long, peduncle nearly as long slender. Male fl. acuminate, calyx shortly 3-toothed ; 

 stamens 12; fern. fl. globose. Fruit f by i-i in., tipped by the stigma; black, 

 shining; (dark yellow King's Collector) pericarp thin. Seed obovoid; albumen 

 densely ruminate. The fruits in some specimens are ellipsoid and narrowed at both 

 ends, girt with a thickened ring at abont 4 of their length below the tip, from 

 the shrinking of the pericarp. 



