JuLv 30, 1909] New or LirrTLE-KNowN PHILIPPINE PALMS 
broadening into an open infundibuliform limb, glabrous, obscure- 
ly produced at one side into an obtuse point; involucrophorum 
not pedicelliform, but a very short neck, this suddenly expands 
into a narrow obicular limb; involucre explanate, the orbicular 
scar left by the fallen flowers or fruits is bordered by a narrow 
circular entire limb. The areola of the neuter flower is represent- 
ed by a small tubercle. Female flowers very small, 2 mm. long. 
Fruiting perianth short but distinctly pedicelliform. Fruit globose- 
ovoid, very suddenly and distinctly surmounted by an obtuse 
cylindraeeous beak, about 18 mm. long including the beak and 
the perianth, and 9 mm. broad; scales very small, in 21 
longitudinal series, squarrose, flattish, not channelled along the 
middle, of a dirty straw color with lighter margins and with a 
reddish-brown, erosely toothed point. Seed globular-ovoid, 7 
mm. long, compressed, coarsely pitted, with a central, orbicular, 
rather deep chalazal fovea on the raphal side. 
Type specimen 9298, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province of 
Tayabas, May, 1907. In dry woods at 800 m. i 
Closely related to €. mitis Becc. of the Babuyanes Islands, 
from which it differs in the leaflets being very distinctly geminate 
(not single) on each side of the rachis. Both C. elmerianus and 
C. mitis, approach C. minahassae from Celebes. 
Calamus discolor Mart. Hist. nat. Palm. 111, p. 212 - 
(edit 12) et p. 311; Bece. Asiat. Palms in Ann. Bot. Gard. 
449 
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Cale. XI, pl. 228; C. lindenii Rodigas in Illustr. Hort. XXX 
(1883) p. 157 t. 449; Ridley in Journ. Str. Branch R. As. Soc. 
No. 44, (1905) p. 200. : 
This species, known in cultivation and said to be indigenous 
in the Philippines, had never been found by recent botanists 
in a wild condition, until Mr. Elmer collected it with young 
fruits (No. 9249) in Luzon, at Lucban, Province of Tayabas. | a. E 
C. discolor was originally described by Martius but from leaves 
only and till lately no other organ of the plant was known; 
but its leaves are so peculiar that I easily recognised in them 
C. lindenii of horticulturists, of which a female plant flowered 
in the year 1992 in the Botanical Garden at Singapore. Of ae | 
this plant a dried specimen was kindly sent to me by Mr. — 
H. N. Ridley. This specimen exactly agrees with those distri- 
buted by Elmer onder | 9299. 
