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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



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cely thicker than the stem at the slightly enlarged base; 

 leaves several, ascendingly spreading, gracefully recurved 

 toward their distal ends, 10 feet long, leaflet bearing 

 from near the base; fruit cluster arising from below 

 the sheath, strictly erect, 6 to 10 inches long, the nuts 

 broadly fusiform and deep vermillion red. In wet ground 

 among bowlders of Very ho mid densely wooded flat 

 along a stream at 1250 feet altitude. 



PIN AN 1 A Blm. 



Pinanga Barnesii Bccc. in Webbia I, 320, 1905. 



Field-note for 7924: — A slender 4 inches thick tree, 

 about 24 feet high, with smooth solid gray bark and 

 soft wood; rings 0.5 inch wide, 1 to 3 inches apart; 

 leaves ascending, paler green beneath, 3 to 4 feet long; 

 leaflets smaller and more scattering toward the base; 

 sheath dull green, purplish tinged; infrutescence pendu- 

 lous, 2 feet long, rigidly 5-branched, orange red when 

 mature, the upper or younger infrutescences yellow to 

 green; fruits in irregular rows, dark red but turning 

 velvety dull black; nut purplish, surrounded by a white 

 fibrous matrix filled with a mealy substance. 



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

 May 1907, numbers 7924 and 9297. Along water courses 

 of the woods or forests at 2500 feet altitude. 



Pinanga Copelandi Becc. in Webbia i, 317, 1905. 



Field-note for 13875:— Erect tree; stem terete, 4 inches 

 thick, 15 feet high, gray or grayish brown, conspicuously 

 ringed every 5 inches; the white central mass or the 

 woody tissues pulpy, the outer fibers brownish and hard 

 or at least dense; sheath 7 inches thick, 4 feet long, 

 dull green or ater colored; fronds several, 10 feet long, 

 ascending and finally recurved; petiole 1 foot long, green, 

 1.5 inches across at the base, expanded and broadly im- 

 bricate, excavated along the upper side; segments as- 

 cending from plaited bases, strongly recurved, narrower 

 and reduced toward the base, much paler green beneath, 

 rather limp for chartaceous; veins green and ridged 

 above, parallel, duU yellow beneath, much broader to- 

 ward the incised and subpendant segments; the several 

 fruiting clusters arising from below the sheath, 1.5 foot 

 long, branched all along the yellowish green rachis 

 which at the base is much flattened and 1.5 inches in 

 width; fruits obovoidly ellipsoid, 0.5 inch long, green 

 to yellow and finally purpureus. 



