Orania
(so called in honour of the Prince of Orange--Oranien). SYN. Macrocladus. ORD. Palmeae. A small genus (three or four species) of tall stove palms, with robust, unarmed, closely-ringed stems, crowned with a dense head of large leaves; they are natives of the Malayan Archipelago and Papua. Flowers minute, unisexual, the spikes inclosed in double spathes, the inner of which is woody. Fruit globose, rather large. Leafsegments linear, oblique at apex, white, scaly, and irregularly toothed or jagged at their tips. Oranias thrive in a sandy loam, and require an abundance of water when growing; good drainage is essential. They are raised from imported seeds, sown in bottom heat.
O. macrocladus (large-branched). fl., spike pendulous. fr. a one-seeded drupe. l. pinnate. h. 40ft. Malacca, 1847. A stately tree.
O. regalis (Royal). fr. red, smooth, the from and size of a small Olive. l. 6ft. to 7ft. long; leaflets panduriform-sinuated, white beneath; primary nerves solitary. Trunk low, terete, annulate. Java, 1847.