NOTES ON PHILIPPINE PALMS, II. 627 



spikelets on each side, and terminate in a small, angular, tail-like ap- 

 pendix. The spikelets are 7 to 12 cm long, otherwise as already described 

 (I.e.). 



The type specimen of G. trispcrmus (Merrill .16 J/5, Herb. Manila) differs from 

 that collected by Loher only in the more elongate spikelets; while the discrepancies 

 which may be noted in the descriptions of the leaves of the two, are due to the 

 fact that the leaf of Loher's specimen is one from the upper part of a full-grown 

 plant, where the leaves have almost equidistant leaflets; while the leaf of Merrill's 

 specimen was a non-cirriferous one, probably from the lower part of the stem, or 

 that of a young plant, where apparently the leaflets are approximate in pairs. 



Calamus microcarpus Becc. in Records Bot. Surv. India 2: 213 et in Ann. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. 1 1 : tab. 218. 



This species, described by me from Vidal 3952, has been again collected by 

 Loher, (Herb. Kew. ), at Montalban, Province of Rizal, Luzon, in 1905, and again 

 in Mindanao, Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, by Mrs. Mary Stroiig Clemens, in 

 October, 1907. 



An entire leaf of Loher's specimen measures 1.1 m in the pinniferous 

 part, has a rather long petiole, and terminates in a long, rather slender 

 cirrus, which is armed with half whorls of very acuminate claws. The 

 intermediate leaflets are 25 to 30 cm long, 14 to 15 mm broad, and are 

 very distinctly approximate in several groups; they have the mid-costa 

 very prominent, but the side nerves are not so strong as in VidaPs speci- 

 men, are quite smooth on the under surface, and have only a few spinules 

 on a nerve on each side of the mid-costa above ; the margins are minutely 

 and appressedly spinulous. (In VidaPs type specimen the leaflets have 

 rigid bristles on 3 nerves above, and the margins are spreadingly spinul- 

 ous.) The spadix is 55 em in Length; the spathes are conspicuously 

 inflated, and the upper ones not prickly. The fruits are ovoid, 8 mm 

 long (without the perianth) and (5 mm broad, otherwise as already 

 described. 



Mrs. Clemens' specimen has a spadix apparently longer and more 

 robust that those collected by Loher and Vidal, and the fruits are also 

 slightly larger. In fact, in Mrs. Clemens' specimens, the fruits, when 

 completely mature, are almost globular, or subobovoid-globular, with a 

 short obtuse and relatively large beak, 7 mm through, and 10 mm in 

 length, not including the small perianth which is distinctly pedicelliform. 

 The seed is globular, slightly depressed and G mm broad, otherwise as 

 already described. 



Calamus microsphaerion Becc. in Perkins Fragm. Fl. Philip. (1904) 45 et in 

 Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 1 1 : tab. 20J,. 



I consider as belonging to this species a sterile specimen, collected by W. I. 

 Hutchinson in the Moro Province, Mindanao, in July, 1906. {For. Bur. No. 4818). 

 N. v. pudlus. 



Calamus Diepenhorstii (Miq.) var. exulans Becc. var. now 

 This possesses a great likeness to some Malayan forms in the spinescence of the 

 leaf-sheaths, in the extraordinary length of the spadices and in all other principal 

 characteristics; it differs only in the leaflets, which are without bristles on the 



