642 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. II, Ant. 36 
The following is Elmer's field-note to his No. 9292: ''Small 
erect trees 4 metres, or much less high, in small palm groves 
at 750 metres; leaves 3 to 5, as many feet long, gracefully 
recurved; midrib green, rigid; leaflets ascending, strongly ridg- 
ed and grooved; stems 3 to 5 inches thick; rings 3 to 5 inches 
apart; sheath 2 feet long, smooth, green, swollen near the base; 
stalk of fruit cluster 3 to 6 inches long, flattened, strongly 
recurved; fruits sessile, densely clustered, deep orange red, 
smooth, irregular in shape, more or less angular at the base. 
The natives call it “‘Bunga Ipot’’ while the regular ''Betel-nut 
Palm’? they simply call ‘‘Bunga’’. The nut of the former is 
also used by the natives but it is not considered as good as the 
latter. It is planted mostly for ormamental purposes and 
makes a pretty appearance’’. 
Pinanga negrosensis Becc. sp. nov. 
Caespitosa, caudice subelato circ, 7 cm. diam. Folia 1.5-2 
m. longa, petiolo brevi triangulari; vagina 50-60 cm. longa; 
segmentis numerosis aequidistantibus, spisse chartaceis, rigidis, 
rectis, prope apicem tantum leviter falcatis, apice acuminato- 
caudatis, vulgo unicostatis et ensiformibus, circ. 40 cm. longis 
et 14-16 cm. latis, etiam latioribus et bicostulatis ac anguste 
lanceolatis, utrinque viridibus et opacis, marginibus conspicue 
incrassatis. Spadix fructifer refractus, circ. 25 cm. longus, 
breviter pedicellatus, ramis nonnihil numerosis spiraliter insertis, 
crassiusculis, basi subtrigonis, superne compressis; floribus inferne 
9.seriatis et in dimidiam superiorem ramulorum partem biseria- 
tis; fructibus parvis, anguste ellipticis, utrinque attenuatis et 
acutis, apice mammillatis, 12-13 mm. longis, 6 mm. latis; semine 
elliptico, 9 mm. longo, 5 mm. lato, apice rotundato et vix 
 apiculato, basi brevissime caudiculato et pungenti. Perianthium 
fructiferum depresse cupulari, 4 mm. latum et vix 2 mm. 
altum, truncatum, in ore leviter coarctatum. 
A rather large tree. The stem is about 8 m. high and 7 
. em. in diam. Leaves 1.5-2 m. long with a short and stout 
. triangular petiole; leaf sheaths 45-60 cm. long; the rhachis 
is covered, at first, with a fiae dark scurf, and, after this has - 
. A disappeared, is finely dotted under the lens. Leaflets numerous, 
| thickly papyraceous, very rigid, straight throughout, but slightly 
. faleate near the apex, equidistant, 15-18 mm. apart at the 
