XIV, 3 Beccari: The Palms of the Philippine Islands 337 
ct. Trunk 5 to 8 m high, 10 to 20 cm in diameter. Leaflets erect- 
spreading, dimidiate-rhomboidal. Male flowers 6 to 7 mm long, 
with 9 stamens. Fruiting perianth 6 to 7 mm in diameter. 
Fruit 12 to 17 mm in diameter, spherical. Seed with a chestnut- 
brown polished surface. Branches of the spadix strongly hairy- 
scurfy 2. C. Cumingii. 
ce. Leaflets very spreading or ‘horizontal, frequently opposite, very 
sharply toothed. Male flowers * * *. Fruit spherical, 12 mm 
in diameter. Seed nearly spherical, 8 to 9 mm in diameter, with 
a black, even, and polished surface 3. C. Merrillit. 
c*. Leaflets ascending, very narrow and very deeply and sharply toothed. 
Male flowers having 6 stamens only. Fruit 11 to 12 mm in dia- 
meter. Seed slightly broader than high, 9 mm broad, of a 
shiny chestnut-brown color, the surface slightly grooved. 
4. C. majestica. 
b'. Soboliferous or with stems in clusters, about 4 m high and 10 cm in 
diameter. Male flowers 8 to 12 mm long, with 12 to 16 stamens. 
Fruit 15 to 16 mm in diameter, frequently broader than high. 
Fruiting perianth 8.5 to 9 mm in diameter-...............-.-....- 5. C. mitis. 
1. CARYOTA RUMPHIANA Mart. var. PHILIPPINENSIS Becc. 
Caryota Rumphiana (vix Mart.) Becc. in Perkins Fragm. FI]. Philip. 
1 (1904) 48, Webbia 1 (1905) 331. 
Caryota wrens (non Linn.) Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 740 (pro parte). 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, For. Bur. 7850 Curran & Merritt; Lucban, 
Elmer 9801: Laguna Province, Santa Maria Mavitac, For. Bur. 10064 
Curran; Mount Maquiling, For. Bur. 19961 Villamil: Manila, Merrill 8037 
(cultivated). Mrnporo, Bongabong, Whitford 1878. MInpANAo, Agusan 
Province, Mount Urdaneta, Elmer 13623, Manobo name pogahan: Davao 
District, Todaya (Mount Apo), Elmer 10940, Bagobo name pola. 
CARYOTA RUMPHIANA Mart. var. OXYODONTA Bece. 
Luzon, Laguna Province, Santa Maria Mavitac, For. Bur. 10045 Curran, 
The specimen of this variety seen by me has dimidiate-rhom- 
boidal leaflets, much more acutely toothed than in the species, 
the teeth being very close together, very narrow, and very acu- 
minate, and on the average 10 mm long; the lower margin of 
the leaflets is prolonged into an acuminate, not very long point; 
the largest leaflets on the sides of the ultimate divisions of the 
rachis are 18 to 20 cm long and 4 to 5 em broad; the basal 
divisions are broader and less acuminate. The floriferous 
branches are very similar to those of var. philippinensis and 
of the same dimensions. The male flower-buds are globose, 7 
mm in diameter with the corolla not yet produced outside the — 
calyx, but even in that condition they show that they would 
have acquired the dimensions usual to var. philippinensis. The 
stamens are numerous. According to the collector the plant 
had a trunk 7 m high and 10 cm in diameter, and leaves 2 to 
8 m long. 
