NOTES ON PHILIPPINE PALMS, EI. 603 



Leaflets are small, narrow and 1- or 2-costulate, those of the middle are 3 

 to 6 cm broad and with 3 to 7 costae, the two of the apex are more or 

 less cleft, and acutely toothed on their upper outer margin and are 

 united by their bases but rather divaricated, so as to form a deeply forked 

 flabellum with a wide reentering angle between them. Spadix very simple 

 and consisting of the very flattened axis or rachis, 10 to 14 cm long, more 

 or less pedicellate, recurved when in fruit. Male flowers comparatively 

 large for the small size of the plant, irregularly angular, 10 to 12 mm 

 long; the calyx very small; the segments of the corolla falcate, very 

 acuminate. Fruiting perianth shallowly cupular or somewhat depressed, 

 3 mm broad, L.5 mm high, broader at the base than at the mouth. The 

 scars left by the fallen fruits on the rachis are relatively large, orbicular, 

 and Hat, with the lower bract small but distinct, rounded in its outline, 

 but minutely apiculate in the center, dellexed or ringent. Fruits dis- 

 tinctly bifarious, or pectinate, about 6 mm apart and 14 to 18 in number 

 on each side, terete with a blunt apex, very slender, often slightly curved. 

 13 to I 1 mm long. 3 mm thick. 



Luzon, Province of Tayabas, For, Bur. 10155 Outran, March, 1908; Province 

 of Rizal, Lohor 7055. 



It is one of the smallest and most elegant species known, with nnbranched 

 spadices like /'. disticha, hut with pinnately cleft leaves, resembling those of some 

 species of Gconoma. 



Pinanga sclerophylla Becc. sp. nov. 



Mediocris, caudice, ut videtur. circ. d cm diam. Folia circiter 85 em 

 longa; vagina coriacea 35 cm longa; petiolo nullo ; segmentis numerosis 

 approximatis, 12-18 mm inter se dissitis, aequidistantibus, subtiliter 

 coriaceis, rigidissimis, omnibus rectis (minime falcatis) ; basilarihus et 

 intermediia unicostatis, 35-40 cm longis, 16-20 mm latis, longe et sensim 

 acuminatis; superioribus sensim minoribus, apice obtusiusculis. interdum 

 bicostulatis et apice obscure hidentatis. summis in flabellum profunde 

 furcatum unitis. Spadices circiter 25 cm longi, in ramulos nonnullos 

 irregulariter circum axem insert os divisi et parte pedicellari brevi praediti, 

 florihus omnibus distincte 3-seriatis; ramulis fiucti I'eiis rigidis. crassius- 

 culis. 14-17 cm longis, basi circiter 4 mm crassis, sursum parum alte- 

 nuatis. plus miiuisve trigonis. Pructus triseriati, parvi. late ovati, apice 

 minute apiculato-mammillal i. basi (in sicco) abruptissime eaudiculati, 

 13 mm longi. 7.5-8 mm lati. 7-8 mm inter se dissiti; seiuine late ovato, 

 8 mm longo, 6.5 mm lato, utrinque rotundato, raphidis ramis ascenden- 

 tibus ad 1), quorum 3 vel 1 centralibus apieem superantibus. caeteris ad 

 latus recurvis, omnibus laxe anastomosantibus. Perianthium fruct iferuni 

 depresse cupulare, 4.5 mm latum, circiter 2 cm altum. truneatum. in ore 

 parum coarctation. 



A rather slender plant, about 1 m high. The stem, judging by the 

 >)Y,e of the leaf-sheath, may be about d cm in diameter. Lean's about 85 

 cm long in the pinnil'enms part; petiole quite obsolete; leaf-sheath 



