Juty 30, 1909] New or LirrLE-KNowN PHILIPPINE PALMS 645 
Leaflets thickly papyraceous, very rigid, quite straight, unicos- 
tate, dull, and concolorous on both surfaces, ensiform, and 
from the middle upwards gradually acuminate to a rigid 
point, narrowing shortly to the base which is rather nar- 
row; the mid-costa is very acute; the upper secondary 
and tertiary nerves are slender but prominent, so as to 
give a finely striate appearance to both surfaces, but es- 
pecially to the lower one; the leaflets which I have seen 
apparently belong to the upper third of the entire leaf, they 
are 45 cm. long and 2 cm. broad. Spadix, when there is 
fruit, recurved, 25 cm. long, divided into several branches 
which are irregularly and spirally inserted round the axis; its 
peduncular part is short; the branches are rigid, thickish, 4 mm. 
broad at the base, slightly narrowing upwards, 18-20 cm. long, 
trigonous throughout, all the flowers being arranged in three 
longitudinal series. Fruits 5-7 mm. apart in each series, small, 
ovoid-elliptical, somewhat and equally narrowing to both rather 
acute ends, their apices mammillate, 18-15 mm. long, 6-7 mm. 
broad. Seed ovoid, equally rounded at both ends, 8 mm. long, 
6 mm. broad, its base blunt and with the embryonal fovea 
slightly oblique; the branches of the raphe are usually only 5, 
simple or very slightly anastomosing, ascending, the central 
branch passing over the top, and the others curved at the side 
of the seed. Albumen deeply ruminated. Fruiting perianth 
very shallowly cupular, 4-5 mm. broad and 1-5 mm. high, 
truneate and slightly contracted at the month. 
Type specimen 10187 A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuernos 
Mountains Province of Negros Oriental, Island of Negros, May, 
1908. In mossy woods at 2000 m. 
It is closely related to P. woodiana Becc., but this has 
bicostulate leaflets. It approaches also P. sclerophylla and 
P. negrosensis, and forms with these a small group of allied 
forms which have the spadices spirally arranged round the 
axis and with 8-seriate flowers and trigonous branches. 
Mr. Elmer in his field-notes writes of this palm: ‘‘Erect 
tree 3 to 5 m. high; stems smooth, brown, 3 inches thick, the 
flat and rather broad rings of a similar color, 3 to 5 inches 
apart, quite evident throughout the length of the stem; leaves 
dark green, quite stiff, pinnate clear to the base; sheath solid, 
