202 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY ( Vor. I, Art. 8 
Of this species only a few sterile specimens were secured. 
However, we know that our form with pubescent receptacles 
has been collected in the province of Tayabas and has a 
southern range. The other form F. propinqua Merr., with 
glabrous receptacles has a northern range, although I have 
also collected it in Tayabas province. Specimen 7170, A. D. 
E. Elmer, Palo, Province of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
23. F. ruficaulis Merr. Govt. Lab. Publ. 17; 13, 1904. 
—In this locality only a few trees were noticed in damp 
soil of light woods at sea level near the edge of a nipa 
swamp. These healthy trees were about 8 meters high, their 
branches forming a round topped crown, branchlets compara- 
tively few, thick. Leaves clustered at the ends of these 
branchlets, spreading and forming a solid shade.  Receptacles 
densely clustered immediately below the leaves, melleus in 
color when fully mature, pedunculate from the axils of the 
large leaf scars. 
This is the most southern limit thus far reported, although 
the variety F. ruficaulis paloense Elm. extends southward 
to Mindanao. Specimen 7165, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Province 
of Leyte, Leyte, January, 1906. 
24. F. pseudopalma Bico. Fl. Filip. ed. 2; 473, 1845.— 
Erect palm like trees 2 to 3 m. high, its stem about 3 
dm. in diameter; bark smooth, grayish white. Leaves ar- 
ranged in irregular whorls only at the top of the stem, less than 
3 cm. apart, slightly ascending and scattering; petiole short, 
thick, scurfy brown, 5 to 8 mm. long; blade very unequal 
in size, wholly glabrous, shining bottle green on the upper 
surface, yellowish green beneath, strongly membranous, 8 
dm. long or less in the smaller ones, the larger at least 
2 dm. wide, oblanceolate, apex rounded or obtuse, gradually 
attenuate from above the middle to the decurrent base where 
it bears short rounded or truncate lobes; margins variable, 
prominently undulate to sinosely serrate or toothed; midvein 
very stout and prominent beneath, the lateral 7 to 9 pairs 
little ascending and usually forked from the middle or above 
this; bud scales 3 cm. long, acuminate, glabrous, 8 mm. 
wide at the base. 
