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Areca Faufel. Gaert.fr. et. sem. 1. p. 19. t. 7.f. 2. Pinanga. 

 Rumph. Hb. Amb. 1. t. 4. Caunga. Rheede Hort. Mai. 1. 

 t. 5-8. 



Habit. — Commonly cultivated, especially to the Eastward, 

 where it attains a much larger size than in Bengal. Sans- 

 crit, Goovaka. Bengallee, Gooa. Arabic, Foolful. Pers. and 

 Hind. Soopara. Telingee, Poka Chelloo. Malayan, Pinang. 



Perhaps the most elegant Indian Palm. It is too well 

 known to need a detailed description. The male flowers 

 are delightfully fragrant. 



It is very extensively cultivated in most of the warmer 

 and more humid parts of India, especially towards the sea, 

 near which alone it comes to perfection. It thrives much 

 more luxuriantly on the Tenasserim coast, and in the Straits 

 of Malacca than in Bengal ; it is also much more immoder- 

 ately used by the Burmese and Malays than the Bengallees. 



Several varieties with particular names exist among the 

 Malays, and merit perhaps as much attention as do those of 

 the Cocoa-nut. 



71. (2) A. triandra, fruticosa, sobolifera, foliis pinnatim 

 fissis, pinnis longe et oblique acuminatis, superioribus apice 

 fissis, terminali furcata plurifissa fissuris bidentatis, spatha 

 1, fl. masculis binatis, petalis oblongis obtusis, staminibus 3, 

 faemineis ad basin ramulorum solitariis, drupa olivaeformi 

 mammillata. 



A. triandra. Roxb. Icones. Suppt. 65, (incompl.) Fl. Ind. 

 3. p. 617. Buch. Hamilt. Comm. Hb. Amb. in Mem. Wern. 

 Soc. 5. p. 310. Mart. Palm. t. 149. 



Hab. — Woods ; Chittagong, Rungpore. Bengallee Bun- 

 gooa, Ramgua, Runi Supari. {Buchanan Hamilton.) Culti- 

 vated in the H. C. Botanic Gardens ; in flower most of the 

 year. 



