NOTES ON PHILIPPINE PALMS, II. 617 



tibus, Hi-20 cm longis et ad basin 2-2.5 mm craasis, crebre tuberculatis. 

 Flores parvi, globosi, 1.6 mm lati. Fructus globosi, perianthio brevissime 

 pedicelliformi sufTulti, 14-15 nun diametro, ad maturitatem azureis et 

 nitidis; mesocarpio parcissime crasso; endocarpio tenuissimo, fragili. 

 Semen globosum, non exacte sphaericum, 11 mm latum, intns fere usque 

 ad medium processu raphidis cylindraceo perfossum. 



A large and robust tree. Leaves large, the blade measuring in one 

 specimen 1.25 m from the ligule to the end of the central Leaflets (ibis 

 came apparently from a lull grown plant): leaf-sheaths disintegrated 

 into fibers of a reddish color, and with the principal vascular bundles 

 forming long, woody, very rigid, flattened strands, 2 to 5 mm broad. 

 Petiole armed in its lower portion with numerous and approximate, more 

 or less reversed spines, which have a tumescent base 10 to 12 mm broad, 

 and are 10 to IT) mm long; in the upper portion the petiole hears only 

 a icw small superficial spines at the sides near the apex; ligule short, 

 woody, crescent-shaped, with a smooth margin; the blade is firmly papy- 

 raceous, green and concolorous on both surfaces, with the divisions 

 marked by very tine and inconspicuous, transverse veinlets; the blade is 

 orbicular in outline, very deeply and unequally mult i lid, some of the 

 sinuses or reentering angles between the divisions being either deeper, or 

 else situated nearer the apex of the petiole than others; the deeper 

 sinuses divide the blade into several primary partitions or segments, 

 which are 2- or 3-costulate, and are in their turn subdivided higher up 

 into 2 or 3 secondary segments, the secondary segments are thus separated 

 from each other by the secondary sinuses, and are again deeply cleft into 

 two very acuminate hanging lacinise; of the primary divisions the outer- 

 most remain free a few centimeters above the apex of the petiole, and have 

 very narrow secondary segments and very long ami flaccid lacinise; the 

 intermediate are united for a longer distance, ami the single segments 

 are :i cm broad where they separate from each other, and have shorter 

 ultimate laciniffi than the outermost: the union of the central extends 

 still higher up and the single segments are 4 cm broad at their base. 

 and though also long acuminate are shorter than in all the preceding 

 segments. The spadix in one specimen has the peduncular part as thick 

 as the wrist and is divided into 7 or 8 partial inflorescences; these are 

 arched, rather large, twice branched, and have their main axis divided 

 near the base into two branches; the fruiting ultimate branchlets are 

 terete, 10 to 20 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm thick at the base, with the pulvinuli 

 of the fallen flowers very close together and tuherculil'orm. The spathes 

 are thinly coriaceous, brown, scaly-fur furaceous externally, shining and 

 darker inside, rigid, with a long basal tubular part, which terminates in 

 an elongate auriculiform limb; this is more or less lacerated and fibrous 

 at its margins. Flowers small, globular, 1.0 mm in diameter; the sepals 

 orbicular, thick only at their base, otherwise very thin and hyaline: the 



