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BECCARl. 



not quite mature) perfectly spherical, 1! to 15 mm in diameter, with a 

 very finely granulated surface, and with the scar left by the stigma quite 

 lateral. Fruiting perianth 9 to L0 mm in diameter; the divisions of the 

 calyx and of the corolla verv hroadlv triangular and almost equal 



Seed 



Keqbos, Gimagaan River, Wkitford lino, .May. 1906. 



This species seems at lirst sight lo he very similar to <>. r/niriliprs, from which, 

 however, it differs in its broader leaflets, in the more slender branches of the 

 spadix. in the perfectly spherical fruit with quite lateral (not BUbapical) remains 

 of the Stigmas, in the smaller perianth, ami. occasionally, in the smaller scar- 

 left by the fallen fruits on the hranchlet s. 



Oncosperma horridum (Griff.) Scheff. 



Mindanao. District of Zamboanga, s a n Ramon, Copeland 1626. 



The above specimen differs hut slightly from the plants growing in the Malay 



Peninsula, and in the islands of the Malay Archipelago, In the specimen 1 have 

 seen, the spines covering the spat he are. however, criniform and much more 

 slender than in the type; also the dry fruit has a thinner pericarp and the 

 remains of the stigmas ;m , ],, ss f „-,„,, j M< .„ t . The fruits are 22 mm in diameter. 

 Oncosperma filamentosum 151. 



Palawan, Caranagan River. For. Bur. 8790 Outran, February, 1906, in river 



swamps. 



The specimens exactly correspond to those of the plan! so common along the 

 estuaries of the Malay Archipelago, the Malay Peninsula, shun, and Cochinchina. 



Oncosperma gracilipes Becc. in Philip. Journ. Bci. 2 (1900) Bot. 228. 



Luzon, Provinces of Laguna and Takrabas, between Paete and Piapi, For. Bur. 

 mi'/S Ourran, March. 1908, in hill forests, altitude mo to 2110 m. 



Growing in clumps, the trunk 10 m high and 12 cm in diameter, fruit red 

 (Curran). The fruits are immature, 14 mm in diameter, slightly longer than 



broad. The plan! seems to he more robust than that on which the species was 



established. 



HETEROSPATHE Scheff. 



Heterospathe phil ippinensis Beec. 



PtychornphM phihppinentu Becc. in Ann. Jard. Bot Unit. 2 (1886) '.to. et 



in W'ebbia 1 (1905) 47. 



Cuming distributed this palm , m der No. 1>,7<> with (lowers only: it has been 



found again by .4. LoAerat sContalban, Province of Ri/.ai. Luzon (No. 7091 in Herb. 

 Kew. i. March, 1906, and on Mount Matulid at 1.200 m elevation, also in the 

 Province of Itizal. in (lower and fruit. March lo. ]!)<)<;. [No. 70.',', in Herb. Kew. i . 



It is a slender palm 1 to 2 m high, with a stem apparently about 2 

 em in diameter, sometimes stolonitferous : the leaves are delicate, about 

 sn «■'" long in th«' pinniferous part, with numerous very regularly set 

 leaflets; petiole deeply channelled above; leaflets thinly papyraceous, 

 narrow and elongate, very slightly falcate near the apex, which is wvy 

 acuminate, and has a very shortly bleft tip; the medials are 25 cm long 

 and 12 mm broad : the upper ones are gradually shorter hut are not or 

 only slightly narrower, while the lower ones are narrower hut not at all 

 or only slightly shorter. The spadix is small, about lo cm long in one 

 specimen, with a very lax panicle carried on a rather long straight 

 peduncular part; the panicle is composed of a Few. very spreading, 



