Aug. 25, 1919] Palms of the Philippine Islands 3007 



long; the petiole 30 cm. long or less and about 5.5 cm. 

 thick, channelled above, convex and covered with gray- 

 ish brown scurf on the dorsal side; leaf sheath about 



1 in. long, reddish brown. Leaflets numerous, uniform, 

 equidistant, about 5 cm. apart on either side of the ra 

 chis, slightly paler beneath than above, strongly bicos- 

 tulate thinly coriaceous though rigid, very narrowly lan- 

 ceolate or lanceolately ensiform, quite straight but for 

 the very slightly curved or subsigmoid base, gradually 

 acuminate above to a straight rather deeply bifid sum- 

 mit, the division unequal, rigid, acuminately subulate; 

 the two costae very robust and prominent on the upper 

 surface, superficially covered with a continuous line of 

 brown narrow scales underneath. Spadix large, recur- 

 ved, panicled, having a robust peduncular part about 

 8 cm. long and 4 cm. broad, and which is divided into nu- 

 merous floriferous branches; the latter are 6 to 7 cm. 

 thick, subtrigouous and with irregularly 3-seriate fruits 

 in their lowest part (the upper part not seen by me 

 but probably flattened and with distichous fruits). Fruit 

 large, perhaps the largest in the genus, 25 to 28 mm. long. 

 15 to 17 mm. through, ovoidly elliptical, almost equally 

 narrowed to either ends, broadly conical above but with 

 blunt apex, rather suddenly narrowed to the base which 

 penetrates with an acute caudiculum into the perianth; 

 the dry mature fruit has the surface marked by approx- 

 imate annular wrinkles, otherwise it is smooth, appar- 

 ently exsuccous and contains only very fine soft capil- 

 lary fibers. Seed globularly ovoid, 18 mm. long. 14 mm. 

 thick, with a rounded apex, blunt base and a slightly ob 

 lique area for the embryo; the branches of the raphe are 

 numerous and form a complete network all around the seed. 

 Fruiting perianth depressed, 8 to 9 mm. broad at the 

 base, 4 mm. high, conspicuously contracted at the mouth. 



Sibuyan: Magallanes (Mt. Giting giting), Province 

 of Capiz, April 1910, number 12425. Field-note:— Erect 

 straight tree; trunk 30 feet long, nearly 6 inches thick, 

 grayish ringed in the otherwise greenish upper portion; 

 wood pale white, the fibers reddish tinged, more or less 

 pulpy even the peripheral portion relatively soft, without 

 odor or taste; bark smooth, brown and gray mixed; foliage 

 forming a rather compact crown, ascending and then 

 recurved, 8 feet long; petiole about 1 foot long or shorter, 



2 inches across, concave on the upper side, the lower 

 curved surface covered with a grayish brown scurfy 

 covering; leaflets opposite or subopposite, averaging 2 

 inches apart, also ascendingly recurved, tough, brighter 



