Aug. 25, 1919] Palms ok the Philippine Islands 2999 



A tree about 6 m. high or at times less. Stem about 

 12 cm. in diameter. Leaf sheaths about 70 cm. long. 

 Leaves 2.7 m. long (in one specimen) inclusive of the 

 petiolar part; the latter 25 cm. long, very deeply chan- 

 nelled above, rounded underneath, about 2 to 2.5 cm. 

 thick; the rachis very robust, 25 to 28 mm. long, broad 

 in the intermediate portion, strongly flattened with flat 

 side faces and an obtuse upper salient angle. Leaflets 

 numerous, uniform, equidistant, the lower opposite or 

 nearly so; the upper ones regularly alternate and 7 to 



9 cm. apart, thinly papyraceous, green, paler beneath, 

 linearly lanceolate, narrowing a little to a slightly sig- 

 moid base to which two very prominent costae converge, 

 the apices a trifle falcate, gradually acuminate and sub- 

 ulate, the intermediate leaflets are 90 to 95 cm. long 

 and 6 to 7 cm. broad. Spadix simply branched, 30 cm. 

 long while in anthesis, composed of several erect very 

 appressed ascendent branches, the whole borne on a 

 flattened pedicellar part 4 to 5 cm. long and about 18 

 mm. broad at its neck-like portion (that which remains 

 above the insertion of the general spathe), very suddenly 

 and considerably broadening below to a very narrow 

 crescent-like amplectent expansion. The branches of the 

 spadix are 15 to 20 cm. long, thick in their lower half 

 or third portion and where they carry female flowers 

 only, whereas they are slender and strongly zigzag sinuous 

 above where at every indenture the male flowers are 

 distically and alternately attached; this upper portion of 

 the branchlets is perishable; the lower is very thick 

 and permanent, and carries closely packed female flowers 

 only, and which forms a dense ovate panicle about 15 

 cm. in length. The branches of the spadix, as well as 

 the fruits, are chiefly arranged somewhat unilaterally, 

 or turned to the outer side of the panicle; two or three 

 of the lower branches have a flattened pedicellar part, 



10 to 15 mm. long by 6 to 8 mm. broad, and are provided 

 at their bases with a narrow and elongated subulate 

 and membranous spathe or bract, carrying 8 to 14 fe- 

 male flowers and of which the lowest ones are very 

 approximate, while the others are regularly alternate at 

 each flexure of the branches; the upper branchlets have 

 a shorter pedicel-like portion, with inconspicuous bracts 

 at their bases, and carry fewer female flowers; the pul- 

 vinuli upon which the female flowers rest are horizontal, 

 having two very small scale like acute bracts but without 

 the usual rudimentary companion male flowers. Female 

 flowers sessile, subglobose or very broadly ovoid, 8 to 



