CLVI. PALMACE^ 
Pinanga.'\ 
9 
Batu Putih (Wray). Kelantan, Chaning Woods (Ridley); Sungei 
Keteh (Foxworthy). 
(11) P. calamifrons Becc. Males, iii. 132 ; Rtdl. Mat. li. 141. 
Stems slender, dark brown, ‘25 in. through. Leaves over i ft. 
long, rachis slender with brown scale-like hairs; leaflets 32, very 
narrow linear acuminate, 6 in. long, i in. wide. Spike simple, 
deflexed, or 2- to 4-branched; flowers distichous. Males unknown. 
Females, sepals orbicular dentate. Drupe sub-cylindric fusiform, 
acuminate, -5 in. long. Seed fusiform, hardly ruminate. Hab. 
Kedah Peak (Ridley). Distrib. Borneo. 
(12) P. Brewsteriana Ridl. Journ. F.M.S. Mus. vi. 188. 
Stems solitary or tufted, 6 ft. tali, ’5 in. through, red-brown. 
Leaves usually simple, obcuneate, deeply bilobed, 2 ft. long, 8 in. 
wide, occasionally with a pair of leaflets below, glaucescent beneath ; 
sheaths 7 to 8 in. long; petioles stout, 6 to 12 in. long. Spathes 
boat-shaped, 6 in. long. Spadix 2- to 3-branched; peduncle 3 in. 
long, branches 4 in. long, densely red-woolly. Flowers distant, 
spiral. Males *12 in. long; petals triangular acuminate. Fruit 
olive-shaped, *5 in. long, black, on a red rachis. Seed nearly as 
long, deeply ruminate. Hab. Mountains at 45^0 to 55^0 ft. alti¬ 
tude. Local. Pahang, Guiiong Tahan. In wet woods (Ridley). 
The male flowers I could only find in the unopened spathe; they fell off 
directly the spathe opened, and I have no doubt that this palm is fertilised 
cleistogamously. 
(13) P. fruticans Ridl. 
A bush palm with many short stems 2 to 4 ft. tall, crowded to¬ 
gether. Leaves 3 to 4 ft. long with about 10 linear acuminate leaflets 
15 in. long, 1*25 to 3 in. wide, terminal pair 15 in. long, 3 in. wide, 
many toothed at top, dark green with paler spots. Spathes 
oblong, rather broad, 3 to 6 in. long, pink. Spadix sub-sessile, 
yin. long; branches 5. Flowers distichous, close, numerous. Males 
lanceolate-ovate acuminate, -15 in. long, flesh colour. Stamens 15. 
Females *15 in. wide. Sepals and petals round, equal, edges ciliate. 
Fruit oblong, black, -5 in. long with thin fibrous pulp; rachis red. 
Seed ellipsoid, strongly deeply ruminate. Hab. Dense woods in 
the north-east. Kelantan, Chaning Woods (Ridley). 
This is extremely like a plant long crdtivated in the Singapore Gardens 
under the name of P. Kuhlii, Bl. It certainly cannot be that species, which 
is described as having a stem 30 ft. tall and many narrow leaflets, whereas 
this only attains the height of 4 or 5 ft. and has few, rather broad, leaflets. 
We have no clue as to the origin of the Garden plant. 
(14) P. paradoxa Naiunrk. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxxii. 31; 
Ridl. Mai. ii. 141. Areca curvata Griff. iii. 64 (partly); 
Not. Ic. PI. As. i. 248. 
Stems several, 3 to 12 ft. tall, -25 io. through. Leaves 12 to 
13 in. long; petioles 6 in. long, scurfy; leaflets 6 to 10 alternate, 
5 in. long, I in. wide, terminal, broad cimeate, deeply cleft. Spikes 
