THE HERBARIUM AMBOINENSE. 311 
nuissimus (p. 41, § S.) ; but its fruit is too large. I shall 
here content myself by giving a few notices concerning this 
palm. 
Caudices aggregati, poUice vix crassiores, pedes 8 vel 9 longi. 
Frondes omnino ut in A. triandra. 
Floras non vidi. 
Spicse fructiferae simplices, recurvatae, angulatee, undique 
aspersae baccis calyci marcescenti insidentibus. 
Bacca ovata utrinque acumine obtuso terminata, parva, gla- 
bra. Caro fibrosa, tenuis, undique semini adhaerens. Semen 
ovale, fundo baccae absque funiculo umbilicali adhaerens. Al- 
bumen ruminatum, nulla cavitate in medio insculptum. Em- 
bryo conicus, albidus, in basi seminis nidulans. 
Pinanga sylvestris oryzaeformis, p. 40, tab. 5, fig. 2, 
et lit. B. C. & D. 
The authors of the Encyclopedie (i. ^41), and after 
them Willdenow (Sp. Pi. iv. 596), call this Areca glohdi- 
Jera ; while Gaertner (De Sem. i. 19, t. 7, f. 2.) calls it 
A. oryzaeformis, which seems the preferable name, being 
that first given. 
Pinanga sylvestris Saleyt dicta, p. 41. 
In modern systems this remains entirely unplaced. 
Pinanga sylvestris saxatilis, p. 4S, t. 7. 
Willdenow calls this the Areca humilis (Sp. PI. iv. 595.) 
Loureiro imagined that he had seen the plant in Cochin- 
china, and called it Borassus caudata, in which he is fol- 
lowed by the Encyclopedie (vi. 258) ; but then there is 
great reason to suspect that the plant which Loureira saw 
is quite different from that of Rumphius, as the author of 
the Encyclopedie, copying from Loureiro, describes an 
undivided spadix, and three nuts in each fruit, while 
Rumphius represents the spadix as branched, and the fruit 
as resembling that of the P'manga oryzceformis, which has 
