226 BECCARI. 
again at tlieir apices with their two divisions more or less acute or 
acuminate. Fruit-spadix deflexed, 10-12 cm. long, the peduncular part 
very short with only 3-1 digitate strongly flattened, slightly siniious 
branches; bracts subtending the flowers inconspicuous. Flowers 
Fruiting perianth ^haWowly cupular, 2 mm. high, 4 mm. across, truncate, 
narrower at the mouth than at the base; the sepals and petals similar, 
very closely imbricated, smooth outside, their margins rounded, entire, 
non-ciliate^ the sepals somewhat thickened and gibbous at the base. 
Fruits exactly horizontally bifarious, 11-15 on each side of the raclils, 
very reguhirly but not very closely set, 15-16 mm. long (including the 
perianth), G nmi. thick, conically acuminate from an ovoid base, suddenly 
broadening when just outside the mouth of the perianth, the base acute 
included ; the apex of the fruit is nipple-like and this is surmounted 
by the remains of the stigmas in the shape of a small obtuse mucro. 
Seed ovoid, conic and acute above, 11 mm. long, 5 mm. thick, caiidiculate 
at the base; the l)ranches of the raphe are very few, curved on the 
sides and slightly anastomosing. 
Mtndaxao, San Eamon, District of ZaniLoanga, on ridges at an altitmle of 
about GOO m. E. B. Copeland, ^Marcli 5, 1905; also at Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, 
No. 487, Mary strong Clemens, Apiil, 1906. 
This is a snmll species with the habit and size of the Indian F'manga gracilis, 
readily recognizable b}- its few acinaciform and underneath pubescent-scabrid 
leaflets, the spadix with very few digitate bvancliea and the distichous rather 
remote conicallj' ovoid fruits. 
Pinanga Curranii Bece. n. sp. 
!Mc'dioeris, subelata, caudice 7 cm. diam. Folia monnihil ampla, 
sogmentis numerosis vakle inaequalil)us, inacquidistantibus attamen non 
congestis, subtus fugaciter puberulo-tomentellis, fere rectis, marginibus 
paralk^libus, intermediis circiter 70 cm. longis, validissime 1-3-costulatis, 
2-6 cm. latis, basi vix vel non attenuatis, in parte superior! leviter 
curvato-falcatis, apice profunde dentatis, dentibus triangvdaribus bifidis, 
partitionlbus rectis acuminatis; segmentis superioribus brevioribus rec- 
tioril)us; terminalilms latioribus phirieostulatis, apiee horinzontaliter 
truncatis, breviter obtuseque dentatis. Spadicis ramuli fruetiferi 18 
cm. longi, valde compressi, sinuosi; friictibus horizontalibus exacte bise- 
riatis, ovato-ellipticis, apice obtusissimo, basi parum acutatis, 15 mm. 
longis, 9 mm. latis; semine ovato in vertice rotundato, basi nonniliil 
acutato, 10 mm. longo, 7 mm. lato. Periautliium fructiferum depresso- 
cu])uhire, -2 mm. altum, 6 mm. latum, in ore non constrictum, immo 
paullo expansum. 
A species of moderate size, 7 m. high. Stem G cm. in diameter. 
Leaves rather largo witli numerous leaflets; the rachis in the intermediate 
and apical portions triangular in cross section, flat and striate beneath, 
juore or less bifacial above, puberulous-furfuraceous; the segments very 
