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of the frail being slightly asymmetric, the divisions of the perianth arc 

 unequally deflexed; otherwise the fruiting perianth is not accrescent, and 

 the segments of the corolla are deltoid, rather Mnnf and thickish. 



Mindoho. Bongabong River, For. Hur. $120 Merritt, May, 1908. N. v, banga. 

 Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. ttitr. 9119 Whitford & 

 Hutchinson. January, L908. The fruits of the specimens from this last locality 

 are however slightly smaller titan those of the typical form from Mindoro; they 

 arc 'M mm long and :fl to ."{2 mm thick, and have a thinner mesocarp with the 

 woody fibers less distinctly normal to the surface of the emlocarp. Evidently 

 this is a local form, which may be distinguished by the name mindanaoensis. 



The fruits of Orania decipiens are about the size of those of 0. macrocladus, 

 and by a superficial observation they might be mistaken for these; they are 

 however slightly larger and are not, like those of 0. macrocladus, perfectly 

 spherical, but are slightly diminished toward the base; they also differ from 

 those of O. macrocladus by the thicker mesocarp. full of the peculiar kind of 

 bony fibers erect on the surface of the mesocarp, and interposed between it ami the 

 epicarp. which are characteristic of 0. regalia, 0. phUippifienais etc.: in 0. 

 macrocladus this kind of fiber is wanting; moreover the position of the embryo 

 differs in the two species, it being placed below the middle of the seed in 0. 

 macrocladus and not very far from its summit in 0. decipiena. 



LIVISTONA I!. Brown. 



Livistona Whitfordii Becc. in Martelli's Webbia 1 (I'll).-)) 341. 



To this species I refer For. Bur. 5876 Curran, collected to the north of Aglao, 

 Province of Zambales, Luzon. January. 1!M>7. The height of the plant is said to 

 be 25 m with the trunk 40 cm in diameter. The fruit (which I have not seen) 

 is 2 cm in diameter. Native name tekis (Curran). 



1 have described ' the petiole of this species as quite smooth, but in the specimen 

 mentioned above, it is armed in its lowest part with rather robust recurved 

 spines, but in the remaining part only with scattered rudimentary t uheiculiform 

 spinules, of which some are nearer its apex. 



Livistona mindorensis Becc. Bp. nov. 



Elata, caudice ad 28 in longo, 20 em diametro. Frondes regulariter 

 rnuhilidac; petiolo inermi; segmentis in parte central] alto unitK externe 

 \\'\v usque ad basin separatis, chartaceis, Buperne nitidiusculis, subtus 

 paullo pallidioribus, profunde bipartitis, sive in lacinias duas Longe acu- 

 oiinatas, attameu aon flaccidas, divisis. Spadices elongati in quovis spatha 

 terni, sive jam ab ima basi in 3 spadices partiales, aequales, collaterals, 

 ox apice spathae primariae unicae, valde compreseae, erumpentes, divisi. 

 Quisque spadix partialis rigidus, rectus, digiti crassitie, teres, spathis 

 tnluilosis apice breviter apertis, arete vaginatus; inflorescentiis partialibus 

 20—25 cm longis, jam a basi bipartitis, caetero simplieiter ramosis, ramulis 

 fructiferis majoribus 7-8 em longis. Fructus parvi, sphaerici, 13-1 I mm 

 diametro (non plane maturi). 



A slender and tall tree, the trunk rising to 28 in in height and being 

 20 em in diameter (Merritt). Lean's orbicular, regularly mult i fid and 



1 \\ ebbia IOC. tit. 



