NOTES ON PHILIPPINE PALMS, II. 



By 0. Beccari. 



(Florence, Italy.) 



ARECA Linn. 



Areca macrocarpa Becc. sp. nov. 



Inter majores. Folia ampla, 2.5 m longa, petiolo brevissimo crasso; 

 segmentis numerosis aequidistantilms. valde approximatis, lanceolato- 

 Ealcatis, valde acuminatis, 1-costulatis et 5 cm latis, vel 2-eostulatis et 

 Bubduplo latioribus; majoribus 1 m et ultra longis, Buperioribus sensim 

 decrescentibus, terminalibus in flabellum non unit is. Spadices .... 

 Fructus majusculi, 7 em longi, ovoideo-elliptici, perianthio 16-17 mm 

 alto Buffulti, in medio 5 cm lati, utrinque fere aequaliter attenuati, 

 Buperne conici, apiee mammillaeformi et areola 5 mm lata terminati; 

 Bemine e basi plana conoideo, apiee obtuso, 28 mm longo, 22 mm lato. 



A rather large palm, apparently of the dimensions of A. Whitfordii. 

 Leaves large, 2.5 m long in one specimen, its petiolai part very short, 

 strongly arched, 5 cm broad near the lowest leaflets, slightly concave 

 above, rounded beneath: the rachis is broadly channelled above in its 

 first or basal portion and prominently so in the median portion, and has 

 an acute, salient angle along its center; leaflets very numerous, equidistant, 

 very close together, almost imbricate and inserted at an acute angle, 

 lanceolate-falcate, long-acuminate, 1-costuhite and 5 cm broad, or 2-costu- 

 late and about twice as wide, the largest, those of the middle, 1 m long, 

 and at times more; the upper gradually shorter, the ultimate ones being 

 the smallest and not united to form a flabellum. Spadices .... Fruits 

 large, ovoid-elliptic, 7 cm long, 5 cm in diameter in the middle, and 

 thence gradually, and almost equally diminishing toward both ends, 

 tapering at the apex to a conical point which terminates in an almost 

 flat surface, about 5 mm in diameter. Seed conoidal, 28 mm long, 22 

 mm broad, having a truncate or flat base, and a blunt point; the branches 

 of the raphe are much anastomosed and form a close net all around the 

 seed. Fruiting perianth 16 to 17 mm high, with thick, coriaceous, sub- 

 deltoid, acute sepals; the petals have a triangular dead point, sharply 

 denned from the lower living part. 



Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9103 Whitford d- 

 Hutchinson, January, 1908. 



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