NOTES ON PHILIPPINE PALMS, II. 607 



tertiary nerves which here are more prominent than above; the largest 

 leaflets, the mediate, are as much as 70 to 75 cm in length and 4 to 5 

 cm in width; those near the base are narrower and shorter than the 

 medials and very acuminate; those of the apex, also narrow, often linear, 

 and quite free at the base. From the bases of the leaflets, and between 

 them, especially in the newly expanded leaves, there often hang Long 

 strands which are apparently analogous to the filaments interposed be- 

 tween the divisions of the leaves of the Wa&hingtoniaa, and of many 

 other palms having palmate leaves. Spadix forming a panicle 1" to 50 

 cm in length and about as wide, with a thick semilunar base embracing 

 the stem, and a very short (2 to 3 cm long) peduncular pari : the panicle 

 is ultradecompound, ami is divided into several approximate, alternate. 

 very spreading or almost horizontal, rather thick, gradually diminishing 

 primary branches, of which the lowest are twice branched, and the upper 

 ones simply divided into a few branchlets; these ultimate or flowering 

 branchlets are spreading, slightly arched, 3 to 10 cm long, rigid, terete, 

 1.5 to 2 mm thick at the base, rugose-striate. (when dry) more or less 

 distinctly zigzag-sinuous in the subulate termination; in their lower part, 

 the branchlets bear all around a few ( 1 to (!) glomeruli of termite flowers, 

 one female between two males, and higher, almost distically. only soli tan- 

 male flowers; there is no distinct bract at the hase of the branches or 

 branchlets hut only a semicircular raised margin. Spathes not seen by 

 me. very early deciduous; their position is marked by 2 or 3 very narrow 

 annular rings around the hase of the spadix. The whole inflorescence 

 is smooth and glaucous when fresh and in flower. The 3-nate flowers 

 are subtended by a common and very shorf scale-like rounded bract; 

 the central female flower is embraced by two special rather conspicuous 

 sepaloid bracts which are crescent-shaped, and which form under the 

 fruiting perianth a slightly concave. 5 mm broad, cup or calycule; the male 

 flowers of the glomerules are devoid of a special bract, while those at the 

 ends of the hranchlets, which are single, have a rudimentary one. Male 

 flowers symmetric, when full grown and in hud. regularly ohlong-ovoid, 

 slightly narrowing toward a rather blunt apex, 10 to 12 mm long, 7 

 mm broad : the calyx cupular. its sepals smooth outside, imbricate, suh- 

 rotund-reniform or broader than high, with almost scariose, thin, entire, 

 glahrous margins, otherwise \evy thinly coriaceous, slightly thickened 

 and gibbous at the hase: the corolla twice as long as the calyx; the petals 

 coriaceous, smooth outside, and narrowly elliptic, concave or boat-shaped; 

 stamens numerous, somewhat unequal; filaments filiform, very slender, 

 coalescent by their bases, not inflected at their summit, unequal, anthers 

 narrowly linear, also somewhat unequal, d to (> mm long, usually acute 

 or apiculate at the summit, hut occasionally obtuse or even emarginate, 

 inserted on the filament a little above the hase of the dorsal side, with 

 very narrow parallel cells, which are united by a relatively broad linear 

 connective and are very shortly divided at their hase; rudimentary ovary 



