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canaliculate, and exceedingly acuminate. Petals oblong-ovate, oblique, 

 valvate, long cuspidate, but shorter than the sepals. Stamina 6 ; anthers 

 linear, those opposite the petals longest. Pollen ovate, 1 -plicate, white. 

 No rudiment of a Pistillum ? 



Female flowers ; sepals roundish, imbricate. Petals similar, a good 

 deal smaller. No rudiments of stamina. Ovarium white, roundish, 1- 

 celled; ovulum one, appense. Style wanting. Stigma obtusely conical, 

 large, obscurely trisulcate, almost three-lobed. 



Spadix of the fruit with about 4 simple, roundish, greenish-white 

 branches. Drupe oblong ovate, 1 inch long, 5-6 lines broad, orange- 

 coloured, mammillate at the apex, base surrounded by the perianth. 

 Seed erect, oblong. Albumen horny, ruminate. Embryo basilar, rather 

 oblique. 



This species is closely allied to A. malaiana, but is at once 

 distinguishable by the tetrastichous not distichous inflores- 

 cence, the sepals, number of stamina and the orange not 

 sanguineous colour of the fruit. 



Figure 11,6, Plate Seaforthia Reinwardtiana, Mart. Palm, 

 gives a tolerable idea of the fruit spadix of this species. 

 Judging from Martius's figure, it varies a good deal in the 

 size of the inflorescence and fruit. 



76. (7) A. malaiana, arbuscula, foliis pinnatis, pinnis alter- 

 nis 1-2-pedalibus linearibus valde acuminatis subtus glauces- 

 centibus, spadice 3-5-ramoso, fl. masc. sepalis lanceolato- 

 acuminatis quam petala obliqua acuta inaequalia multo mi- 

 noribus, staminibus circiter 40, fl. fceminei nullis, stigmatibus 

 discoideis, fructibus distichis ovatis (sanguineo-purpureis). 



Seaforthia malaiana. Mart. Palmae,p. 184. t. 158,/. 3. 



Hab. — In forests, Ayer Punnus, and Rhim, Malacca ; not 

 uncommon. Malayan names, Malacca, Pinang Booreng ; 

 Penang, Kurdoo. 



Descr. — An elegant Palm, 8-12 feet in height. Habit of the preced- 

 ing. Stem distinctly annulate, in diameter J-l inch, internodes generally 

 subclavate. Crown of 5-8 leaves, spreading. Leaves 5-8 feet long ; sheaths 



