Aug. 25, 1919] Palms of the Philippine Islands 3003 



Mindanao: Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, 

 May 1909, number 10467. The Bagobo name is "Tim- 

 bagnalan" and it was collected in humus covered fertile 

 soil of dense woods at 4000 feet altitude. Cabadbaran 

 (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, August 1912, number 

 13875. la rich moist humus covered ground of secon- 

 dary forests among hemp fields along the Minusuang 

 river at 250 feet altitude. The Manobos call it "Bag- 

 toan." 



Pinanga Woodiana Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. iv, 604, 



1909. 



Field-note for 10485:— Stem straight, 2 to 3 inches 

 thick, 10 to 20 feet high, yellowish gray, ringed; wood 

 soft and stringy on the interior, whitish- rind hard; 

 sheath 2 to 3 feet long, dark green, when old becoming 

 brown pulverulent; leaves ascending, 8 feet long or 

 shorter, not crowded, gradually recurved; leaflets equally 

 scattering evei'y 2 or 3 inches and similar in width, 

 also recurved, slightly paler beneath, rigid on the upper 

 side; petiole 0.75 inch thick, green, 1 to 2 feet long; 

 infrutescence arising from beneath the sheath, barely 1 

 foot long, its paniculate branches green; fruits arranged 

 in 3 rows along the rather straight green rachis, 0.5 

 inch long, bright to dark red. 



Mindanao: Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, May 

 1909, numbers 10485 and 11334, Collected the former 

 number along the edge of a deeply wooded canyon of 

 the Baruring river at 4000 feet altitude; the latter 

 number was gathered in rich deeply humus covered soil 

 of a moist steep forested slope at 4500 feet altitude on 

 mount Calelan. Both numbers were called "Irar" by 

 the Bagobos. 



Pinanga philippinensis Becc. in Malesia in, 180, 1887. 



Field-note: — Mostly solitary trees; stems slender, 

 smooth, greenish, 2 to 3 inches thick, 15 to 25 feet 

 high; rings 3 to 5 inches apart, only 1 inch toward the 

 sheath base; wood quite brittle, reddish, the central mass 

 fibrous and pulpy; sheath twice as thick as the stem 

 immediately below it, 2 feet long, reddish brown; leaves 

 thin, ascending, 3 to 5 feet long, leaflet bearing within 

 a foot from the base of the petiole; fruit panicle pen- 

 dulous, 1 foot long, green, nearly as wide; fruits strictly 

 in 2 opposite rows. 



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



