644 LRAFLETS or PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. Il, Art. 36 
part of the branchlets and biseriate in the remainder. The fruit 
is also narrower, and the fruiting perianth less depressed than 
in P. rigida; finally the seed is pungent at its base, while it is 
blunt in P. rigida. 
The following is Elmer’s field note to his No. 10030: 
*“Stems grow in small clusters in damp ravines at 3000 feet; 
trunk pale whitish, smooth, 3 inches thick and 25 feet high, 
gray towards the ground, green towards the top, conspicuously 
ringed every 1 to 3inches; leaves rather dense, 1.5 to 2 m. long; 
the stout triangular rachis recurved, .75 inches wide at the base; 
pinnae ascending, rigid, dull green, with a pair of yellowish 
nerves along the upper side; sheath 1.5 to 2 feet long, hard, 
green or glaucous green, smooth, about 6 inches thick. Fruiting 
spadix drooping from the uppermost axils of the fallen leaf 
sears, green; fruits yellowish red, becoming bright red, and 
when fully ripe nearly velvety black.” 
Pinanga rigida Becc. sp. nov. 
Mediocris 3-5 m. alta, caudice solitario, 7-8 cm. diam. 
Folia rigida, petiolo nullo, segmentis numerosis aequidistant- 
ibus, inter se valde approximatis et fere imbricatis, spisse 
chartaceis, rigidis, rectis minine falcatis, ensiformibus, unicost- 
atis, à medio in acumen rigidum sensim attenuatis, intermediis 
45 cm. longis, 2 cm. latis. Spadix fructifer refractus, circiter 
25 em. longus, breviter pedicellatus; ramis nonnihil numerosis, 
spiraliter insertis, crassiusculis, 18-20 cm. longis, basi 4 mm. 
spissis, apice paullo attenuatis, usque ad apicem flores triseriatim 
ferentibus et trigonis; fructibus parvis, ovato-ellipticis utrinque 
parum attenuatis et acutiusculis, apice mammillatis, 13-15 cm. 
longis, 6-7 mm. latis; somine ovato, utrique aequaliter rotundato, 
.8 mm. longo, 6 mm. lato, fovea embryonali leviter obliqua. 
Periahthium fructiferum brevissime cupulari, 4.5-5 mm. latum, 
1.5 mm. altum truncatum, in ore leviter coarctatum. 
A small tree 3-5 m. high with a solitary stem 7-8 cm. 
in diameter, having the internodes 8-12 cm. long. Leaves 
. dark green, very stiff, with numerous leaflets, which are so 
. elosely set (only 10-12 cm. apart) as to almost imbricate, the 
| upper margin of one overlapping the lower of that immediately 
above; leaf-sheaths about 45 cm. long; petiole quite obsolete. 
