Aug. 25, 1919] Palms of the Philippine Islands 3005 



Agusan, October 1912, number 13950. In humid soil of 

 wooded depressions on the summit area of Duros peak 

 at about 4000 feet altitude. "Sarawag" in Manobo. The 

 mountain tribes use the nuts as a substitute for betle-nut. 



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

 November to December 1915, nana hers 14909. 15445 and 

 15497. Lucban (Mt. Banahao), Province of Tayabas, May 

 1907. number 8028. 



Pinanga speciosa Becc. in Webb i a r, 316, 1905. 



Field-note for 13739: —Small but erect tree; stem 4 

 inches thick, terete, 20 feet high, gray at the base, 

 green toward the ringed top; wood fibers dense on the 

 outside, the central mass pulpy and pale white; sheath a 

 yard long, a trifle thicker than the stem, dark green; 

 fronds spreading, at least 10 feet long, the basal one 

 fourth leafless, strongly recurved; leaflets similarly re- 

 curved, dark green above, much paler beneath, char- 

 taceous, each of the lateral portions ridged along the 

 upper side, the terminal or wide leaflets irregularly cut 

 at the distal end; petiole smooth and green, 2 inches 

 wide at the base, shallowly grooved along the upper 

 side especially toward the base; infrutescence arising 

 from below the sheath, subpendant, 1.5 foot long, dense, 

 the main rachis green, the hanging and alternating 

 unbranched branchlets flavus; fruits in distichous rows, 

 dull yellow, subtended by blackish brown bracts. 



Mindanao: Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of 

 Agusan, August to October 1912, numbers 13739. 13941 

 and 14023. Chiefly found in ravines or upon steep stony 

 slopes of woods between Cawilanan and Duros peaks at 

 1250 to 4000 feet altitude. The Manobo name for the 

 first two numbers is "Sacolon or Sacolong" while the 

 latter number was called "Sarawag." Todaya (Mt. Apo), 

 District of Davao, May 1909, number 10484. Collected 

 in fertile moist soil of dense woods at 4000 fret altitude. 

 The Bogobos call it "Sadawag. " 



Pinanga rigida Becc. in Leafl. Philip. Bot. If, 644. 

 1909. 



Field note for 10147: — Slender erect trees; stem 3 

 inches thick, ringed beneath the leaves, otherwise nearly 

 smooth, brown; woody tissues rather soft, the pulp silky 

 white, fibers more numerous in the circumference; leaves 

 nearly 9 feet long, the basal one third without segments; 

 stalk at the base 2 inches wide, triangular, with sharp 



