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slightly sigmoidal and faleate above, very long and slenderly 
acuminate, 3- or 4-costulate, about 50 cm long and 3.5 to 4.5 em 
broad, reddish-brown underneath in dry specimens and under a 
strong lens appear finely hairy-papillose along the nerves; the 
two terminal segments are narrowly linear, 2 to 2.5 cm broad 
and 30 cm long, truncate and shortly incised-toothed at the apex. 
Spadix small with a very few (5 or 6) flattened, about 13 cm 
long, floriferous branches. Fruits exactly biseriate, elongate- 
ovoid-conical, 16 to 18 mm long, 6 mm thick, having their broad- 
est part below the middle and the base suddenly contracted into 
a caudiculum, the latter extending into the perianth. Seed ovoid- 
conical, 11 mm long, 5 mm thick, with the areola of the embryo 
oblique; the vascular bundles of the integument are 3 or 4 only, 
very slightly anastomosing. Fruiting perianth cupular, trun- 
cate, not contracted at the mouth, 2 mm high, 3.5 mm wide. 
5. PINANGA HETEROPHYLLA Bece. sp. nov. 
Gracilis, caudice 1.5 cm diametro. Frondium segmentis utrin- 
que 7 vel 8, inaequidistantibus, valde inaequalibus, 1- ad 4-costu- 
latis, falcato-sigmoideis, longe acuminatis, chartaceis, subtus 
glabris; spadicis ramis paucis (5) triquetris; fructibus 3-seriatis, 
parvis, anguste ovato-ellipsoideis, utrinque aequaliter attenuatis, 
acutis, 11 ad 12 mm longis, 5 ad 5.5 mm latis; semine ovato, 
superne conico; integumenti ramis vascularibus 8 ad 10, modice 
anastomosantibus. 
NEGROS, Mount Maripari, For. Bur. 17346 Curran, September, 1909, in 
forests... 
Slender, stem 15 mm in diameter. Leaf-sheaths elongated, 
22 cm in one specimen, the mouth very oblique (not split) for the 
extent of 5 to 6 cm, strongly striate, and more or less covered 
with rusty-brown scales; the ligule at the base of the petiole 
is membranaceous, triangular, acuminate, 12 to 15 mm long; 
petiole 20 to 25 em long, 3-gonous, also covered with rusty scales; 
the piniferous part is about 85 cm long, and has 7 or 8 segments 
on each side; the segments are very unequal, inequidistant, often 
separated by vacant spaces as much as 8 cm long; the lower 
surface is glabrous and paler than the upper, narrowly falcate- 
sigmoid, very acuminate; the intermediate segments are 35 to 
40 cm long and of very variable breadth, some of them being 
1-costulate, and only 7 cm broad, while others are 2- to 4-cos- 
tulate and 2 to 4 cm broad; the two terminal segments are united 
by their bases and are shorter and broader than the others, 
pluricostulate, incised-toothed, the teeth divided again into two 
short, narrow, acuminate, secondary teeth. The spadix has very 
