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straight, and filiform branches, of which the lower arc hi- or tri-furcate, 

 and the upper simple. The spathes arc two: the lowest is 18 cm long, 

 flattened, two-edged, with very sharp or narrowly winged margins and a 

 narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, marcescent limb, the second gpathe is 

 tubular, closely sheathing lower down, and marcescent above. Male flowers 

 oblong, 3 mm long; the segments of the corolla deeply striated externally. 

 Fruits ovoid-subventriedse, almost symmetrically very suddenly and con- 

 spicuously beaked, 10 mm long, (i mm broad, finely shagreened by nu- 

 merous linear sclerosomes. Seed glohular-ovoid. <> mm long. 5 mm broad. 



Heterospathe negrosensis Becc. sp. nov. 



Gracilis, 3-5 m alta, caudice 6-9 cm diametro. Folia in parte pin- 

 nifera circiter 1.2 m longa. petiolo longiusculo (circiter 50 cm longo), 

 segmentis aequidistantibus, circiter :5 cm inter se dissitis, ensiformibus, 

 acuminatis, prope apicem nonnihil falcatis, intermediis 35-40 cm longis, 

 •v ; -^.. r > cm latis. Spadix nutans. 70 cm longus (in specimine uno) longe 

 pedunculatus, ramulis floriferia teretibus, filiformibua crebre Binuosis, 

 13-20 em longis, vix 2 mm craesis. Fructus anguste ellipsoidei, utrinque 

 subaequaliter attenuati, hasi acutiueculi, superne fere symmetrice euspi- 

 dati, 10-11 mm longi. 5 mm crassi, extus crebre granuloso-lineolati, 

 perianthio late cyathiforml el bracteolis parvia cupulam parvam incom- 

 pletam simulantibus suffulti; semine ovoideo, hasi rotundato, Buperne 

 acuto, 7.5 mm longo, 4 mm crasso. 



Tliis is a more robust plant than //. philippinenris, of which, perhaps, it may 

 be considered as the representative form in the Island of Negros. Ttio leaves arc 

 larger and have larger leaflets, and the spadix is considerably more robust, with 

 a peduncular part about 10 nun thick, and about 50 cm in length; the fruit is 

 more elongate and very distinctly cuspidate, or acutely beaked, and, consequently, 

 the Beed is also more distinctly ovoid and rather acute. 



The specimens which ] consider as typical, were collected in the Island of 

 Negros, by U. N. Whitford {No. 1589) in May, 1900, on Mount Silay. Province 

 of Occidental Negros. In the same Island it lias also been collected by .1. D. E. 

 Elmer at Dumaguete, Cuernos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, in March, 

 1908. Nos. !H,3>i and 10147. In Elmer's specimens the leaflets arc smaller and 

 the fruits less acuminate than in those represented by Whitford's material; con- 

 sequently they are nearer than the latter to the true //. phiUppinen*ia of Luzon. 



1 reproduce here Elmer's held note of his No. il'i-l'i: '-Slender erect trees 3 to 5 

 meters high; in damp mossy woods at 4,000 feet or more; stems 2 to 3 inches 

 thick, obscurely ringed, with soft reddish wood: leaves 1 to 3 m long; the lower 

 one-third without leaflets, the basal portion of the petioles expanded, the sides 

 soon becoming marcescent; inflorescence paniculate, 1 to 3 feet long, upon equally 

 long peduncles; flowers small, sessile, cream white throughout; fruits green, 

 becoming yellowish, and ultimately vermilion-red: the fruits are sometimes eaten, 

 are not hard but wholly tasteless." X. v. sahiinu/. 



Heterospathe cagayanensis Becc. sp. nov. 



Arbor mediocris, circiter ('» m alta. Folia ampla, segmentis aequi- 

 distantibus circiter 5 cm inter se dissitis, enaiformibus, acuminatis, prope 

 apicem leviter falcatis. intermediis 65 cm longis, 3 cm latis. Spadix 



