456 The Palms of British East India. 



number, by the recurved not connivent styles, and by the 

 fruit. 



I am not aware of the history of the plant, the fruit of 

 which is, I believe, considered a medicinal kind of betel-nut, 

 or its native place. Can it be Pinanga Calapparia of 

 Rumph. ? 



Sect. II.— ANACLASMUS. 



75. (6) A.pumila, arbuscula, foliis pinnatis, pinnis alternis 

 2|-pedalibus lineari-ensiformibus prae-acuminatis, spadicis 

 ramis sub-4 undique florigeris, fl. masc. sepalis subulato- 

 setaceis quam petala obliqua ovato-cuspidata paullo longiori- 

 bus, staminibus 6, fl. faem. stigmate obtuse-conico trisulcato, 

 fructibus undique insertis ovatis (aurantiaceis.) 



A pumila, Mart, Palm. t. ]53.f. iv. v. (spadice inverso.) 



Hab. — In a dense forest in a ravine near Ching, Malacca; 

 one specimen only observed. Malayan name, Pinang Jirong* 



Descr. — Stems 10-12 feet in height, 1|-1§ inch in diameter, distinctly 

 annulate. Leaves 8-9 feet long ; sheaths subventricose, about 2 feet long, 

 inside of a shining chesnut colour ; petiole bearing pinnae nearly to the 

 base where it is channelled, elsewhere trigonal,- pinnce alternate, 2| feet 

 long, |-1 \ inch broad, sword-shaped, very acuminate, coriaceous, bright- 

 green, above two-keeled with an obsolete intromarginal one on each 

 side. 



Inflorescence whitish-yellow. Spadix while included in the spathes 

 shortly sword-shaped. Spathe about a foot long, linear, two-edged, 

 flattish posticously, anticously ventricose, coriaceous, chesnut-coloured, 

 obtuse and sometimes 3-fid at the point, here and there presenting 

 spots of adpressed hairs. 



Spadix peduncle about 1| inch long, on the middle of the outer face 

 a semi-circular scar of the attachment of the spathe, a little above this 

 a membranous spathelle acuminate from a very broad base : a smaller 

 one at the base of each lateral branch ; branches about four, level- 

 topped, pendulous, about a span or a foot long. Flowers about four- 

 ranked, sessile, whitish-ochroleucre, throughout one female between two 

 males. Male flowers ; sepals nearly an inch long, triangular-subulate, 



