THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. VI SEPTEMBER, 1911 No. 4 
THE PALMS OF THE ISLAND OF POLILLO.* 
By 0. Beccari. 
^ 
(Florence, Italy.) 
Areca Catechu Linn. var. longicarpa Becc. var. nov. 
longis 
perianthio) 2.5 ad 3 cm crassis, pericarpio in fere dimidia inferiori parte 
plaeno, semine e basi plana late conoideo, obtuso, 22 mm crasso, 24 mm 
longo. 
Bur. 8ci. 10J,10 McGregor. 
Areca Ipot Beec. var. polillensis Becc. var. nov. 
A forma typica diffei-t caudice graciliori, 4 m longo, 4 ad 5 cm diam., 
spadieibus brevioribus. Specimina incompleta, fnictibus immaturis, 
tantiim vidi. An species distincta? 
Bur. Sci. 69SS Rohinso7i, along stream, altitude 25 m; Bur. Sci. moS, 10^,9 
McGregor. 
Pinanga Barnesii Becc. in Webbia 1 (1905) 320. 
Bur, Sci. lOJfGG McGregor, Bur. Sci. 60S7 Rohimon. 
Arenga saccharifera Labill. ^ 
Bur. Sci. 90U Rohinson, vernacular name (Tagalog) bunga ng cauang ; Bur. 
Sci. 10^68 McGregor. 
^This paper ^vas received just too late for publication with the other article* 
on the phanerogams of Polillo. The Island is situated off the east coast of Luzon, 
almost in the latitude of ^lanila. The collections here identified ^^ere made by 
R. C. McGregor and C B. Robinson, both of the Bureau of Science, by the latter 
in the month of August, 1909, by the former in the succeeding three months.-Ji.D. 
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