408 ci.xiii. PALWEif',. (Beccari & Hook, f.) \_Pinanga. 



5. P. robusta, Becc. mss. ; stem taller and much more robust than 

 P. folymorpha, 16-20 ft. high by 1^-2 in. diam., leaves 1^2 ft. long, 

 petiole and costa of blade nearly as thick as the little finger, spadix and 

 its branches very stout. 



Malay Peninsula ; Perak, on the top of Gunong Booboo, alt. 3-5300 ft. King's 

 Collector (No. 7372). 



Evidently allied to P. polymorpha, but the specimens are insufficient for a fuller 

 description. 



6. P. Scortechiniy Bece. Males iii. 170; stem solitary, young inter- 

 nodes scurfy, leaves pinnatifid, leaflets distant long narrow, petiole long 

 slender, branches of spadix 6-6 ascending digitate, flowers spirally 

 arranged in 4-series, fruit ovoid or obovoidly-oblong. 



Malay Peninsula ; Perak, Scortechini, alt. 3000-4000 ft.. King's Collector. 



Stem 6-15 ft., J-li in. diam. Leaves 3-4 ft. long ; sheaths scurfy ; leaflets 

 numerous, l-lj ft. by l-lj^ in., rather rigid, 2-5-ribbed, finely acuminate, base 

 hardly narrowed. Spathe elliptic-oblong. Spadix stoutly peduneled, depressed, 

 f-l^ in. long, with a large triangular deciduous bract ; branches 2^-4 in. long. 'Male 

 fl. sepals triangular, cuspidate, petals rather longer acuminate. Sepals of fern. fl. 

 cuspidate, ciliolate ; petals rather larger. Frait f in. long, black, shining, tip 

 rounded or subacute; albumen densely ruminate. 



B. Obthostichanthe^, Beco. Flowers in 2 series on the spadix or its 

 branches. 



* Leaves entire or sparingly divided. 



7. P. distlcha, Blume (fid. S. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. 253) ; stem 

 very slender short, leaves small cuneately obovate simple and deeply 

 forked or with a few broad lateral leaflets, spadix small simple refracted 

 villous, male petals much longer than the calyx, fruit ovoid or fusiform 

 acuminate. Becc. Males, iii. 123. P. bicolor, Blume in Bull. Neerl. 1838, 

 65 ; Kumphia, ii. 92, t. 118, f. 2 ; Kunth Enum. iii. 641. Areca disticha, 

 Boxb. Fl. InA. iii. 620 ; Ghiff. in Oalc. Journ. Nai. Sist. v. 461 {pa/rtly as to 

 descript. & local.) ; Palms Brit. India 165 (partly). A. humilis, Boxb. Ic. 

 pict. ined. Areca curvata, Oriff". Ic. PI. Ind. Or. t. 248 (non Notul. iii. 

 164.) Seaforthia disticha, Mart. Sist. Nat. Palm. 184 ; Kunth I. c. 190. 

 Ptychosperma disticha, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 28 et Suppl. 263. 690 ; Journ. 

 Boi. Neerl. i.T; De Palm. Arec. 24. 



Penano, Boxlurgh, Curtis (No. 391) ; Perak alt. 100-800 ft. Herh. Calc. (Nos. 

 2536, 4423.) 



Stems 2-6 ft. by J-J in., usually tufted. Leaves 12-15 in., forked, and many- 

 nerved, the nerves ending in setaceous points, or with a lew unequal acuminate 

 lateral leaflets inserted by a broad base ; sheath closely grooved and short petiole 

 scurfy. Spadix 3-3 in. long. Stamens about 15, pistillode 0. Fruit J in. long, 

 narrowed at both ends, but most so above, orange-red. Seed ovoid; albumen ac- 

 cording to lioxburgh's description, and his drawing (copied by Griffith, t. 233) 

 solid, but there are a few streaks of rumination in No. 4423 from Perak. — The 

 leaves are often mottled with pale yellow green. 



8. P. subruminata, Becc. Males, iii. 174 , stem very slender, leaves 

 cuneately obovate forked, lobes truncate doubly-toothed 12-16-nerved, 

 petiole long slender, sheath deeply olosely grooved, spadix piercing the 

 sheath of the old leaf very short reflexed bipartite glabrous, branches 

 flexuous, fruit narrowly ovoid or ellipsoid apiculate. 



Malay Peninsula ; Perak, alt. 100 ft., Serb. Galcutt. (No. 7797) j King's 

 Collector (No. 1968). Penano, alt. 1500-2000 ft., King's Collector. 



