LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 



EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 

 Vol. VIII. Manila, P. I., August 25, 1919. Art. 120. 



PALMS of the PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



Collected and distributed by A. D. E. Elmer 



by 

 O. Beccari 



{Florence, Italy) 



ARECA Linn. 



Areca Catechu Linn. Sp. Pi. ed. i^, 1189 et ed. n^, 

 1659. 



Field-note: — Erect tree, 30 feet high, with smooth 

 grayish white bark; rings conspicuous and closely set 

 toward the top; leaves 4 to 7 feet long, ascending and 

 recurved toward the distal end; the stalk green and very 

 rigid; leaflets fan- shaped, ascending, rather dense all 

 along the whole of the midrib; sheath 3 feet long, green, 

 smooth, swollen toward the base; fruiting cluster spread- 

 ing or deflexed, 1 to 2 feet long, branched from near 

 the base; branches not numerous, rigid, rather thick and 

 green; fruits yellow when mature. 



Luzon: Lucban (Mt. Banahao), Province of Tayabas, 

 May 1907, number 9295. In Tagalog "Bunga". Primarily 

 grown for the nuts which are chewed by the poorer 

 natives with lime and leaves of certain species of Pipers. 



Areca Whitfordii Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. n, 219, 

 1907. 



Field-note: — Very slender tree; stem 3 inches thick, 

 20 to 30 feet high or higher, terete, ringed especially 

 toward the top, greenish gray, the central wood tissues 

 soft, even the rind not very hard; leaves 2 yards long 

 or shorter, not numeroj^syjliorfronSa-Ry spreading, recurved 



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