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BECCARI. 



coriaceous, about 35 cm long; rachis, in its intermediate portion with a 

 very salient angle in the center of its surface, very finely punctulate 

 under the lens; leaflets numerous, about 35 on each side, equidistant, 

 IS to 18 mm apart, thinly coriaceous and very stiff, dull and of about 

 the same color on both surfaces, straight, not at all falcate or sigmoidal ; 

 those of the base and of the central part are ensiform, unicostate, .'i.') to 

 10 cm long, 16 to 20 mm broad, gradually long-acuminate, somewhat 

 narrowed toward the base, which is 7 to 8 nun broad and with the margins 

 bent backward; the upper leaflets shorten gradually and become less 

 acuminate, occasionally they become bicoatate, when this occurs, they are 

 obscurely bidentate at the apex; 1 or 5 Leaflets of the summit are united 

 together ami form a deeply forked llabellum ; the mid-costa is very 

 prominent above, beneath it is slender and bears a few linear scale.-: the 

 secondary and tertiary nerves are rather conspicuous, and give a distinctly 

 striate appearance to both surfaces; the margins are more or less distinctly 

 thickened. >Sj„n/i.r about 25 cm long with several branches, irregularly 

 inserted around the axis; the pedieellar part is short and flattened; the 

 brandies when bearing fruit are rigid, rather thick, It to 17 cm long, 

 -1 mm in diameter at the base, slightly lessening upward, more or less 

 trigonous, the flowers being distinctly arranged in three longitudinal 

 series; the areolae left by the fallen fruits are very superficial, 7 to 8 mm 

 apart on each longitudinal line, bordered by very narrow bracts; of these 

 the lower has a round margin and is not apiculate in the middle. Fruits 

 small, broadly ovoid, inconspicuously apiculate and mammillate at the 

 apex, suddenly caudiculate at the base (when dry) in the portion im- 

 mersed in the perianth, 13 mm long, 7.5 to 8 mm broad. Seed broadly 

 ovoid, 8 mm long. 6.5 mm broad, rounded at both ends, its basal fove- 

 ola, corresponding to the embryo, slightly oblique; the main vascular 

 branches of the raphe are !), ascendent, of these 3 or 4 pass over tin' top, 

 the others bend laterally, and are slightly anastomosed. Fruiting peri- 

 anth shallowlv cupular, 1.5 mm broad, 2 mm high, truncate, and slightly 



narrowed at the mouth. 



.MiNooiio. .\luiint Baloon, For. Bur. }}j;n Merritt, June, 1006. altitude about 

 !.;->()() m. 



Pinanga eolerophylla is evidently closely related to /'. Woodiama, from which it 

 differs chiefly by its very stiff, unicostate, narrower, and much more approximate 

 leaflets, by the seed which in general i- rounder in shape, and iii the raphe having 

 more numerous branches. 



Pinanga Woodiana 15ecc. sp. nov. 



Mediocris, eaudice, ut videtur, circiter 4 cm diametro. Folia circiter 

 2 m longa; petiolo . . . . ; segment is numerosis, coneinne aequidistan- 

 tibus, utrinque inter so 15 cm dissitis, spisse chartaceis el rigidis, elongato- 

 lanceolatis, icctis vel vi\ ad apicem falcatis; intermediis bieostulatis, 5-") 

 cm longis et in medio 4.5 cm latis, sursum in acumen longiusculum riffi- 



