The Palms of British East India, 453 



A. laxa, Buch. Hamilt. Comm. in Hb. Amb. in Mem. 

 Wern. Soc. 5. p. 30. Pinanga sylvestris glandiformis secun- 

 da, Rumph Hb. Amb. 1, p. 39 ? 



Habt. — Andaman Islands. Buchanan Hamilton. 



Descr.* — Trunk 20-30 feet high, annulated, green, tumid, generally 

 incurved, never straight as in A. Catechu. Leaves pinnate ; pinnce lanceo- 

 late acute, quite entire, aequidistant, two-nerved with 4-plaits ; petiole 

 pinniferous from the middle upwards ? 



Spaihe 1 -leaved, lanceolate, acute, margined. Spadix panicled, branches 

 angular. Male flowers very many, minute, in pairs. Sepals three-rigid, 

 lanceolate, acute. Stamens 3 ; filaments scarcely any ; anthers oblong. 

 No rudiment of a Pistillum. 



Female flowers situated towards the bases of the spikes, solitary, few, 

 much larger than the males. Sepals convolute, ovate, concave. Petals 

 convolute, ovate, acuminate, longer than the calyx. Ovarium obsolete- 

 ly trigonal, ovate, acuminate. Style 0. Stigma acute. Fruit 



Buchanan Hamilton, from whose description the above is 

 adapted, states, that it is closely allied to A. triandra, and 

 that the nuts were used instead of the Betel-nut by the 

 convicts confined on the island. Buchanan Hamilton makes 

 no mention of the petals of the male flower. I have no 

 knowledge of it. 



73. (4) A. nagensis, (n. sp.) arborea, procera, foliis pinna- 

 tim fissis, pinnis linearibus obliquis acuminatissimis, spadice 

 spithamseo, fl. faemineis ramorum pluribus, fructibus angusto- 

 ovatis utrinque attenuatis prsesertim apice mammillato. 



Habit. — Assam ? Major Jenkins. Naga Hills, up to an ele- 

 vation of 800 feet above the level of the sea, affecting banks of 

 rivers. Name of the tree in Naga, Tdl-pdt ; Singpho, Tong- 

 tau ; of the nut, Naga, Kdve ; Assam, Tdmal. {Mr. Owen.) 



* From that of Buchanan Hamilton, 1. c. 



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