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female flowers form a shallow truncate cup, 3 mm wide. Fruit 
narrowly ovoid, 10 to 12 mm long, 5 mm broad, slightly asym- 
metrical, being faintly obliquely conical in its upper part, the 
apex marked by a minute mammillaeform areola, bearing the 
remains of the stigmas; the surface is dull and even (not 
roughened by underlying sclerosomes), the epicarp thinly crus- 
taceous, the mesocarp with 3 or 4 layers of strongly flattened, yet 
soft, fibers, the endocarp very thin, pellicular. Seed ovoid-ellip- 
soid, rather acute, 7 mm long, 4 mm thick; hilum sharply im- 
pressed all along one side; testa brown and polished; the vascular 
branches of the integument form a loose network all around the 
seed; albumen radiately ruminate; embryo basal. 
CAMIGUIN DE MISAMIS, a small island north of Mindanao, Bur. Sci. 14678 
Ramos. 
This species is closely related to Ptychoraphis intermedia, but 
is distinguishable by its smaller fruits, considerably narrowing 
in their upper part, and by the ellipsoid, acute seeds having 
the vascular branches loosely anastomosing. 
2, PTYCHORAPHIS INTERMEDIA Bece. in Leafi. Philip. Bot. MS. 
MINDANAO, Agusan Province, between Duras and Canilan Peaks, Mount 
Urdaneta, over 1,000 meters’ altitude, Elmer 13663, September, 1912, 
Manobo name marighoy. BILIRAN, Bur. Sci. 18107 McGregor, June, 1914, 
this specimen agreeing very well with that from Mindanao. 
This species is closely related to Ptychoraphis microcarpa, from 
which it differs in its larger spadix having longer and thicker 
fructiferous branches and in the leaflets having paleolae not only 
on the midcosta but also on three nerves underneath, but more 
especially in the shape and size of the fruit and in the seed, 
which is rounded at both ends and marked by the close network 
of the vascular branches of the integument. Both Ptychoraphis 
microcarpa and Pt. intermedia are more closely related to Pt. 
angusta, of the Nicobar Islands, than to Pt. singaporensis, of 
the Malay Peninsula and Singapore. 
8. PTYCHORAPHIS ELMERII Becc. comb. nov. 
Heterospathe Elmerii Bece. in Leafi. Philip. Bot. 2 (1909) 646. 
NeEGrRos, Dumaguete, Cuernos Mountains, Elmer 9559, altitude about 1,000 
_meters, local name Dilisan. 
4. PTYCHORAPHIS CAGAYENSIS Becc. comb. nov. 
Heterospathe cagayensis Bece, in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 611. 
Luzon, Cagayan Province, For. Bur. 12286 Klemme, locally known as 
dumayaca. : 
An imperfectly known palm, somewhat uncertain in its generic 
position, but greatly resembling Heterospathe elata in its fruit; 
