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which, in the former, was called Ram Gua, or Wild BeteU 
nut, while, in the latter, it was called Runi Supari. I sent 
plants to Dr Roxburgh, thinking it might be the Areca 
alba ; but Dr Roxburgh was of a different opinion, and 
called it Areca triandra, a name not very appropriate, as 
applicable to several species. 
Jreca triandra pinnis lateralibus falcatis, acutis ; terminal! 
bifurca, praemorsa. 
Areca triandra, Hort Bang. 68. 
Areca alba, Willd. Sp. PL iv. 59^ ? Encyc. Meth. Sup, 
V. 441 ? 
Habitat in sylvis Camrupae et Tripurae, 
Caudex strictus, 12-20 pedes altus, annulatus, inermis; apice 
Isevi;, viridi, tumente. Stipites Iseves, longitudine fere frondis 
subteretes, basi dilatato amplexicaules, Rachis communis sub- 
anceps, supra carinata. 
Frondes cum impari pinnatae. Pinnae sessiles, longitudinali- 
ter decurrentes, integerrimae^ nudae, ad nervos 6 — 12 plicatas ; 
laterales falcatae, acutae ; terminalis bifurca lobis divergentibus, 
praemorsis. 
Spatha ex apice caudicis annulati infra partem tumentera ena- 
ta. Spadix ramosissimus, erectus. 
Flores omnino ut in A. laxa, sed antherae sagittatae ; stigma 
trilobum. 
Bacca magnitudine amygdali oblonga, utrinque acumine ob- 
tuse terminata, glabra, pulpa molli rubra tenui tecta. Semen 
bacca conforme, integumento crasso lignoso fibroso tectum. 
Albumen absque cavitate ruminatum. Embryo in basi seminis 
positus, conicus. 
Very nearly allied to this last is a small Palm, which I 
found near Goyalpara, and which is probably the Areca 
gracilis of the Hortus Bengalensis (68), as Dr Roxburgh 
received his plant from the neighbouring territory (Sylhet), 
and as the name is very applicable ; but I did not observe 
the plant in the garden at Calcutta. I should have consi- 
dered it as the same with the next plant described by 
Rumphius, on account of its trunciis gi^acilissimus et te- 
