clVi. palmace^ 
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Actinorhytis] 
(i) A. calapparia WendL and Drude, Linnca, xxxix. 184; 
Scheffer Ann. Buitenzorg i. 136, pi. 22, 23. Areca cocoides Griff. 
Palm. Brit. Ind. 230B. Areca calapparia Bl. Rnmphia, ii. 68, 
pi. 100, 2 {fruit). Seaforthia calapparia Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, 
iii. 313 - 
Tree 40 ft. tall, stem stout, ringed. Leaves 8 to 9 ft. long, 4 to 
4- 6 ft. wide, segments 2 ft. long, 1-25 to 1-5 in. wide, linear acuminate, 
5- nerved. Spadix large, pendulous. Flowers in lower part of 
branches one female between two males, above, males only in pairs. 
Fruit ovate, 3 in. long, 2*5 in. wide, red. Hah. Cultivated ground 
near villages, Malacca, Ching and halfway to Malim (Griffith); 
Pahang, villages near Pekan (Ridley). Distrib. Malay islands 
from Rhio, and Sumatra to Amboina. Native name: Pinang 
penawar. Use : In medicine. 
The origin of this palm seems to be unknown, but was probably in the 
eastern islands of the Archipelago. The plant is rarely cultivated, but the 
seeds arc carried about by Malays and planted near villages for medicinal 
use. 
5 . IGUANURA, Bl. 
Small unarmed palms. Leaves entire, obciineate and deeply 
bifid or pinnate with few broad leaflets. Spathcs 2, short, per¬ 
sistent. Spikes simple or branched on a long peduncle, slender. 
Flowers small spiral, one female between two males or males only on 
branch ends, sunk in sockets in the rachis. Males, sepals orbicular. 
Petals oblong, connate at base, lanceolate or ovate. Stamens 6 to 
9. Pistillode large. Females, petals ovate. Staminodes 6. 
Stigmas sessile. Ovary i cell, i ovule. Fruit oblong, white 
turning red and finally black. Seed ruminate or not. Species 10, 
Malayan. 
Leaves obcuneate bifid, occasionally few-lobcd. 
Spike simple, rarely i- to 2-branched, long 
Spikes panicled ; stem tall and stout; leaves 3 ft. 
long, obcuneate ...... 
I.eaves obcuneate or variously lobed; stem short, 
slender; fruit elliptic ..... 
Leaves pinnate with narrow linear leaflets 
Spike simple; fruit conic-cylindric curved 
Spikes panicled. 
Fruit ovoid; spike glabrous .... 
Fruit cylindric curved ; spike red-woolly . 
Fruit bilobed at top, glabrous 
(1) I. geonomaeformis 
(2) I. spectabilis 
(3) I. Wallichiana 
(4) I. diffusa 
(5) I. comiculata 
( 6 ) I. polymorpha 
(7) I. ferraginea 
( 8 ) I. bicomis 
(i) I. geonomseformis Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. 229, t. 178; 
Ridl. Mai. ii. 150. 
Stems 2 to 3 ft. tall, 5 in. through, few together. Leaves obcuneate 
bifid, occasionally with from 2 to 9 lobes acuminate, 18 to 24 in. 
long, 6 to 9 in. wide; midrib red-tomentose; petioles i ft. long. 
Spikes from axils of lower leaves simple or 2- or 3-branched, i ft. 
