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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vnr, Art. 120 



mareescent margins, imbricated but not forming a swollen 

 sheath; panicle upon a 1 to 2 feet long axillary pedun- 

 cle which at the base is surrounded by ensiform marces- 

 cent sheaths. * 



Negros: Dumaguete (Cuernos Mts.), Province of Ne- 

 gros Oriental, May 1908, numbers 10147 and 10187. Dis- 

 covered in humid moss laden woods ranging from 4000 

 to 6000 feet in altitude. 



Pinanga negrosensis Becc. in Leafl. Philip. Bot. u, 642, 

 1909. 



Field-note: — Stems in small clusters; trunk smooth 

 below. 3 inches thick and 25 feet high, gray toward the 

 ground, green towards the top, conspicuously ringed every 

 1 to 3 inches; the stout triangular rachis recurved, the 

 short stalk 0.75 inch wide at the base; leaves rather 

 dense, 1.5 to 2 yards long, pinnae bearing nearly to the 

 base; segments ascending, rigid, dull green, with a pair of 

 yellowish nerves along the upper side; sheath 1.5 to 2 feet 

 long, hard, green or glaucous green, smooth, about 6 

 inches thick; infrutescence subpendant from the uppermost 

 axils of the fallen sheath scars, green; nuts yellowish 

 red, bright red and when fully ripe a nearly velvety black. 



Negros: Dumaguete (Cuernos Mts.), Province of Ne- 

 gros Oriental, May 1908, number 10030. Discovered in 

 damp ravines at 3000 feet altitude. 



Pinanga sibuyanensis Becc. sp. nov. 



Subelata, caudice circiter 9 m. longo, et 15 cm. 

 diam.; frondium segmentis numerosis aequidistantibus, 

 majusculis, late ensiformibus, basi vix sigmoides, cae- 

 tero usqua ad apicem rectissimi, subtilliter coriaceis, 

 glabris subtus quam superne vix pallidioribus, validissime 

 bicostulatis, apice breviter inaequaliter bifidis; spadicibus 

 majusculis, ramis erassiusculis coinpresso angulosis, nu- 

 merosis, spiraliter insertis; fructibus 3-seriatis (saltern in 

 parte basilari ramorum) majusculis, ovato ellipticis, utrin- 

 que subae-qualiter attenuatis, apice conico obtusiusculo, 

 25 28 mm. iongis, 15-17 mm. latis; semine late ovato, 

 superne rotundato; raphidos ramis undique, etiam in 

 dorso, anostomosato-reticulatis; periantio fructifero in ore 

 truncato et nonnihil coarctato. 



A large tree with a straight trunk about 9 m. long 

 and 15 cm. in diameter. Leaves large, about 2.5 m. 



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