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Pinanga (To the species described on p)

To the species described on p. 130, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

P. decora (comely). l. pinnate, green, tinged brown; pinnae sessile, broadly lanceolate, long-acuminate, sometimes bifid and rounded at the apex; sheaths marked brown. Caudex tall. Borneo, 1886. Unarmed. (I. H. 1886, 114.) P. lepida (pretty). l., when first developed, brownish-crimson, gradually changing to deep, lustrous green, with faint darker mottling; segments unequal, prominently veined above; petioles short, rufescent. East Indies, 1888. This Palm is only known in a young state in gardens. P. Sanderiana (Sander's). l. two-lobed, spreading, glossy, mottled green; petioles mottled or freckled with brownish pubescence, destitute of spines. Indian Archipelago, 1885.

P. spectabilis (remarkable). l. dark green, with paler mottlings, silvery beneath, pinnate; young ones two-lobed. East Indies, 1886.