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77 LEAFLETS ON PHILIPPINE BOTANY [ Vor. I, Art 4 
ed or obscurely angled, surrounded by a sticky yellow pulp; 
apex of drupes conical, terminating into a sharp muricate 
blackish spine which is usually somewhat curved toward the 
apex of the syncarpium; in fully matured fruits these loosen 
and fall off in plates prior to the falling of the stones which 
are apparently 2-celled but only 1-seeded. 
Type specimen number 7201, A. D. E. Elmer, collected in 
alluvial soil along the Bafigon River, near Palo, Leyte, January, 
1906. The fibers of its leaves are not as brittle as those in P. ra- 
dicans Blco., and for this reason it is the chief source of padan 
material for making coarse bags, mats and baskets. It is re- 
lated to P. copelandii Merr. from Negros but distinctly differ- 
ent in the longer slenderly acuminate leaves;and much longer 
peduncles bearing longer and differently shaped syncarpia. 
The Visayan call it Barieu. 
