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BECCARI. 



deeply ruminated. Fruiting perianth shallowly cupular, 3.5 mm broad 

 and 1.5 mm high, truncate, and slightly narrowed a1 the mouth. 



MiMioiio. Mount Saloon, on forested ridges at 1,100 m altitude, Merrill 5680, 

 November, 190G. 



At the request! of Mr. Merrill this line palm is named after Mil j<>r-< lenei a I 



Leonard Wood to whom ^\lr. Merrill was indebted for the opportunity of making 

 t lie ascent of Mount 1 [alcon. 



Related to Pinanga tclerophylla and P. negrotensis, l>ut more especially to 

 /'. rijiiilu. It is chiefly characterized by its rigid, not very approximate, lanceolate, 

 bicostulate, Btraighl leaflets, and by the spadices with 3 seriate fruits; the fruits 



are borne on 3-gonous branchlets, which are inserted all around the main axis. 



NORMANBYA V. Mnell. 

 Normanbya Merri II ii Becc. sp. nov., Plates XXX. XXXI. 



A One palm with the habil of Areca Catechu but with a shorter and 

 thicker stem; this is about 25 em iii diameter at its base, and very closely 

 annulate-cicatrioose, sometimes not very straight, Blightly tapering toward 

 the summit. Leaves large, pinnate! about 2 m long, gracefully and 

 strongly arched, deciduous at every new production of spadicee, these being 

 infrafrondales, or springing from bellow the lowest Leaves. Lea [shea His 

 exactly cylindric, 50 to 55 cm long, and about 15 cm in diameter, 



coriaceous, thinning and truncate at the mouth, strongly striate on both 

 surfaces, when dry covered externally with a very thin and minute ashy- 

 furfuraeeous coating. Petiole short and broad, 10 to 15 cm long, 5 to 

 (i cm broad, broadly channelled above, convex beneath, its margins acute. 

 Bachis robust, flattened above, narrowly channelled in its basal part and 

 with a slight prominent salient angle higher up, beneath with an obtuse 

 angle la-low and flat t ish toward the end. Leaflets numerous, about 50 

 on each side, subequidi8tant, very closely set at a rather acute angle, 

 and slightly overlapping or subimbricate. narrowly lanceolate', broadest 

 at about the middle, narrowing thence toward the base — where the 

 margins are gradually bent backward — and gradually acuminate to a 

 long, straight, or slightly falcate apex, which in the lower and inter- 

 mediate leaflets is more or less divided into two linear lacinise; these 

 in the upper leaflets' become shorter and finally disappear in the few 

 Leaflets near the top, the apex in these being truncate and denticulate- 

 pnemorse: the Leaflets are besides firmly papyraceous, with only a central 

 COsta; this latter not very stout, almost equally prominent on both sur- 

 face- in its basal part, Dearly vanishing from the middle upward and 

 furnished with a \'v\\\ very narrow, A to 8 mm long, brown, chaffy scales; 

 the margins of the Leaflets are conspicuously thickened by a stout uerve, 

 even thicker than the midcosta; the secondary nerves are faint on the 

 upper surface, which is green, almost shining, and slightly longitudinally 

 plicate along some of the nerves; the lower surface is dull and rendered 

 more or lees distinctly ash-colored by a very thin, adherent, undetacbable 

 coating; moreover the lower surface is unequally striate by secondary and 



