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BEOCARI. 



There i> little or no doubt thai this is Caryoia tremula of Blanco. That 

 author, however, deacribea the female flowers of this palm aa having ti sepals, 

 probably because he considered the bracts as sepals, 



Arvinja tnnntla is very closely related to .1. Ambong, from which it differs 



by the male Sowers having ■ rounded top. and more numerous stamens; but 

 specially in its oblong, not spherical fruit. 



ORANIA Zipp. 

 Orania decipiens Becc. sp. now 



Robusta, caudice circiter 8 m longo, 24 cm diametro. Frondes I-.") m 

 longae, segmentis supra nitidis, subtus albicantibus, praecipue prope basin 

 pluricostulatis ; majoribue us<[uo aid 1 m longis. Spadicee ampli, du- 

 plicato-ramosi, tonge pedunculati, rSmulis floriferis gracilibus, inferioribus 

 10-45 cm Longis, superioribus brevioribus, e basi ;> mm crassa sursum in 

 acumen tenue Leviter ei regolariter "aig-zag" Binuosum sensim attenuate. 

 Mores in ramulorum dimidiam inferiorem partem terni, intermedio 

 foemineo, alaribus masculis, caetero geminati el tantum masculi. Fructus 

 globosi, basi nonnihil attenuati, ibihue subacuti, 40-42 mm Longi, 3&-31 

 mm liit i ; epicarpio fragili, tenui; mesocarpio 3-4 mm Bpisso, fibria 

 Dumerosis crassis, fere osseis, in superficie endocarpi erect is, praedito; 

 endocarpio Lignoeo, fcenui, basi paullo producto et obtuse apiculato; Bemine 

 globoso, basi paullo explanato, 23 mm latoj embryone supra medium 

 locato; albumine osseo, intus plena. 



Stems 8 m high and VI cm in diameter. Leaves large, I to :> m long 

 (Merritt), apparently very similar to those of 0. phUippinensis. Leaflets 

 almost shining above, dull and whitish beneath, with the mid-costa very 



robusl accompanied on each side by ;5 or I other minor costffi, and with 

 several secondary nerves between these; the median leaflets the largest, 

 np to L.5 m long, (i cm broad. Spadices huge, twice branched, with 

 a robust, and at its base '> to 8 cm thick, peduncular part; the ultimate 

 divisions or (lowering hranchlets are slender ami of these the lower are 

 l»» to tfi cm long, the upper shorter, 3 mm thick at the base and from 

 here gradually diminishing to a slender, and slightly hut regularly, zig- 

 zag-sinuous tip. The flowers are 3-jiate in the lower half of the branchlets, 

 and here the (lower in the center is female, those at the sides male; 

 upward only geminate m .,| t . flowers are to he found. Fruits spherical 

 in their upper part, slightly prolonged downward into a blunt and slightly 

 gibbous point at their bases which gives them a subpyriforro shape, lit 

 to T> inni long and :;:> to 37 nun broad : epicarp thin and brittle: mesocarp 

 :'> to -I mm thick, full of numerous, short, almost bony libers which are 

 erect in respect to the surface of the endocarp ; this is very thin and 

 woody, on the whole spherical and like the general form of the entire 

 fruit slightly prolonged at the base into a wry obtuse point. Seed 

 globose, with a slightly flattened base, 23 mm broad; the embryo is placed 

 rather far above the middle; alhunien bony, solid fchroughoui The base 



