Pinanga^ OLXiii. palmed. (Beccari & Hook, f.) 411 



Khasia Hinsj alt. 2-4000 ft., Griffith, J. D. E., &c. (in Serb. Wel^b.), 

 Nunklow and Oliurra, Clarke. 



Stem 3-4 ft. ; iiiteriiodes clavate, young scurfy. Leaves 4!j ft. ; leaflets opposite, 

 1 ft. long, much obliquely acuminate, 3-4-keeled above, terminal lobe 2-fid j petiole 

 Gin. £l/)a<?!.e 4 in., oblong. S padim 3-i ia. ; branchescompressed.flexuose, flowers 

 crowded. Malefi. calyx membranous 3-toothed ; petals very unequal ; stamens about 

 15 ; pistillode 0. J^em. ^. sepals and petals subequal; staminodes ; stigma large, 

 discoid. Fruit about J in. long by i diam., narrowed at tbe top. Seed of the same 

 shape. — This is the plaut alluded to by Griffith (Calo. Journ. Nat. Hist. 1. o. 462), 

 and described as probably a form of A. gracilis collected by Major Jenkins and him- 

 self in the Khasia bills and Assam, and of which he says, in a footnote, " Stem and 

 leaves much the same as in A. gracilis, spadices slenderer 3-4-times branched, fern. fl. 

 distichous distant." The above is from Malesia. I have seen no specimen. 



+tt Spadix v/nhranched. 



16. P. hymenospatha, HooTc.f.; stem slender, petiole and rachis of 

 leaves slender scurfy, leaflets very numerous faloately very narrowly 

 ensiform finely acuminate unicostate, spadix very short, spathe fusiform 

 terote acuminate membranous, male fl. flat imbricate. 



Burma ; at Moulmein, Lobb. 



litem as thick as a goose-quill ; Internodes long. Lea/ees 12-14 by 4-5 in. ; 

 leaflets 3-4 by j-^ in., very numerous (15-20 pairs) quite regularly close set, alternate, 

 flat, thin, dark green above and brownish beneath when dry, costa slender, pro- 

 minent on both surfaces ; petiole 3 in., subterete ; sheath 3-4 in., striate, Spathe 

 li in., ellipsoldly fusiform, erect, quite membranous, subhyaline. Spadix as long as 

 the spadix, flowering to the base. Male ji.,c\o^e\y imbricating, J in. diam., trapezoidly 

 orbicular ; dorsal sepals twice as long as the others, apioulate ; stamens 9, unequal ; 

 filaments very short, anthers linear. Fern. /J. mmute, globose ; ovary ovoid, stigma 

 pulvinate, ovule erect. — A very distinct species remarkable for its membranous 

 spathe and very elegant foliage. 



17. P. paradoxa, Scheff. in NatuurTc. Tljdsch. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 31 : 

 stem slender, leaves entire or piunatiseut with few broid 3- or more- 

 nerved leaflets, spadix^shoi-t deourved, fruit very narrow taparing from 

 above the base to the obtuse tip often curved. Becc. M.aleii. iii. 129, in 

 note. Areoa curvata. Griff. Notul. iii. 164, partli/, at to the descr. 

 (not Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 248). A. paradoxa, G-riff. in Oalc. Journ. Nat. Hist. 

 V. 463 ; Palms Brit. Ind. 156, as to descr. of fruit, and, fig. of fruit, t. 

 ccxxxvii. 0, f. 11. Kentia paradoxa, Mvrt. Hist. Nxt. Palms. Ill, 313. 

 Nengella paradoxa, Becc. Males, i. 32. Ophiria, pirddoxa, B<icc. in Ain. 

 Jard. Boi. Buitenz. ii. 128. Oladosperma, N.G. Griff. Notul. iii. 165. 



Mai,apcAj foot of Mt. Ophir, Griffith. Pebak, alt. 3-4000 ft., Scortechinl 

 (427'', 2413) ; on Gunong Batu, Wray. 



Stem 3-6 ft., very slender, j in. diam. ; internodes 1-2 in. Leaves 1 ft. long, 

 entire and oblong, or with 3-S pairs of sigmoidly linear-lanceolate acuminate leaflets 

 with a broad base, 4-5 in. long by i-i broad; petiole 1-H ft., very slender and 

 rachis scurfy; terminal lobe deeply forked, toothed; sheatu long, deeply striate. 

 Fruiting spadix 2-2J in. long, slender, nearly glabrous ; peduncle short. Fruits 

 distichous, J in. long by ^ broad, red ; albumen equable. 



DOHBTEDIi SPECIES. 



18. P.-p^T^lLA., Blumeii JBwU. Seerl. 18'iS, 66; Rumphia, ii. 86, 87, t. 115; 

 Kunth Fnwn. I'u. 641 ; fCarz in Journ. 4s. Soc. Seng. xlii. ii. 201 ; Scheff' in 

 Natuurk Tijdich. Ned. lad. xxxii. \7S {partly and exol. all vars.) ; in Ann. Jard. 

 Bot. Bdt. i. loO (partly as to descr.), c. 18, f. 4, t. IjJ ; Beoc. Males, iii. 139. 

 Saafortaia patula. Mart. Nat. Hist. Palm. 323. Ptychosperma patula, Miq. Fl. 



