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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vnr, Art. 120 



May 1907, number 9300. In dry woods at 2000 or 2500 

 feet altitude. 



Pinanga Elmeri Bccc. in Webbia i, 322, 1905. 



Field -note: — Erect or ascending trees; stems few from 

 the same root cluster, nearly 2 inches thick, 5 to 10 or 

 more feet high, terete, ringed especially toward the top, 

 greenish gray; sheath angularly terete, very dull green, 

 3 times as thick as the stem, 1.5 foot long; fronds sev- 

 eral, horizontally disposed, finally gracefully recurved; 

 petiole 1 foot long, 0.75 inch thick, flat on the upper 

 side; segments descending, strongly recurved toward their 

 ends, rigid, paler green beneath; infrutescence divaricate 

 or descending, at most 1 foot long, arising from below 

 the sheath, branched from near the base; stalks pale 

 green, widely spreading and conspicuously curved; the 

 ellipsoid fruits reddish tinged. 



Luzon: Irosin (Mt. Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, 

 July 1916, number 16583. Gathered in wet humus cov- 

 ered ground of steep jungled woods at 2750 feet al- 

 titude. 



Pinanga insignis Bccc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. II, 233, 

 1907. 



Field-note for 13950: — Rather large and coarse solitary 

 trees; stem 8 inches thick, 20 to 30 feet high or higher, ring 

 ed toward the top, bark dull gray; wood fibers dense 

 and hard on the outside, few and mixed with whitish 

 pulp in the center; fronds several, ascending, only slightly 

 recurved toward their tips, up to 20 feet long; sheath 

 5 feet long, thicker than the stem, purplish brown; pet- 

 iole 1.5 foot long, very stout, 3 inches across at the 

 base, grooved above, similarly purplish brown on the 

 lower surface, imbricately extended into the sheath; seg- 

 ments very coarse, ascending, only slightly recurved 

 toward their ends, chartaceous, paler or yellowish green 

 beneath, the lateral portion descending upon the nether 

 side, plicate at the base, the 2 midveins ridged above: 

 infrutescence arising from below the sheath, pendant, 

 nearly a yard long, the glaucous rachis terete in general 

 outline; the recurved peduncle flat, 3 inches wide; branches 

 alternating from all sides of the rachis, also glaucous green, 

 flexible, 1.5 foot long; nuts arranged in 2 rows, velvety 

 purple red, less than 0.75 inch long, ellipsoid, tapering to 

 a niple shaped point. 



Mindanao: Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of 



