NOTES ON PHILIPPINE PALMS, II. ()05 



dum abeuntibus, inferne quoque nonnihil attenuato. Spadices circiter 20 



cm longi, in ramulos nonnullos irregulariter circum axem insertos divisi, 

 et parte pedicellari brevi praediti; ramulis fructiferis rigidis, craBsiusculis, 

 12-15 cm longis, e basi fere usque ad apicem circiter 4 mm crassis, et, 

 parte apicali excepta, trigonis. Fructus pro maxima parte 3-seriati, su- 

 perne vulgo bifarii, parvi, ovoideo-elliptici, utrinque aequaliter attenuati, 

 apice minute apiculato-mammillati, 12 mm longi, 7 mm lati; semine 

 ovoideo, 9 mm longo, 6 mm la to, euperne rotundato, basi non producto, 

 foveola embrionali nonnihil obliqua, raphidis ramis vulgo 5, vix vel non 

 anastomosantibus, ramo centrali tantum apicem seminis superanti. Per- 

 iantlmm fructiferum depresse cupulare, 3.5 cm latum, 1.5 mm altum, in 

 ore exacte truncatum et parum coarctatum. 



A rather slender plant 4 to 5 m high. Stems solitary, 3.5 to 4 em in 

 diameter, with the internodes about 4 em long and the annular Bears 

 or rings left by the fallen leaves 12 to 14 mm broad. Leaves about 2 



m long; petiole ; rachis, in the intermediate portion, with a 



very prominent salient angle along the center of the upper surface, at 

 first puberulous, later very minutely dotted (under the lens) ; leaflets 

 about 25, and 5 cm apart on each side, very regularly equidistant; the 

 medial ones bicostulate, elongate-lanceolate, straight, or very obsoletely fal- 

 cate, stiff and rather thickly papyraceous, 55 cm long, 4.5 cm broad in the 

 middle, and thence gradually narrowing upward to a rather long-acu- 

 minate rigid point, they narrow also from the lower third or fourth 

 downward to a base which is about 1 cm broad, are dull and subcon- 

 colorous on both surfaces, slightly paler, but not glaucescent, beneath; 

 the costse in the upper surface are prominent and acute, in the lower 

 rounded and bearing a few elongate scales; secondary nerves very slender, 

 and slightly stouter than the very numerous tertiary ones; this causes 

 the two surfaces, when dry, to be finely striate; the margins are slightly 

 thickened. Spadices about 20 cm in length with a pedicellar part 3 cm 

 long, recurved in fruit, divided into not very numerous (14 in one 

 specimen) branches; these are irregularly inserted around the main axis, 

 rigid, about 4 cm thick throughout, 12 to 15 cm long, more or less 

 trigonous. Flowers mostly distinctly 3-seriate, the uppermost usually 

 bifarious; the areolae left by the fallen fruits are very superficial, 5 to 

 6 mm apart in each line, bordered by very narrow bracts; of these the 

 lower are also very narrow with a round margin ami not apiculate in 

 the center. Fruits small, 12 mm long, 7 mm broad, red, turning dark- 

 purple, ovoid-elliptic, diminishing equally to both ends, inconspicuously 

 mammilate at the apex. Seed ovoid, 9 mm long, 6 mm broad, rounded 

 above, not caudiculate at the base, the embryonal foveola somewhat 

 oblique; the branches of the raphe are usually 5, ascending; of these only 

 that of the center passes over the top of the seed, the others bend at its 

 sides, and not at all or but very slightly anastomose. Albumen very 



