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green above, much paler beneath, its parallel lines brown 

 eneath; sheath a yard long, nearly 6 inches thick, reddish 

 orown; the pendulously recurved infrutescence arising 

 from the base of the sheath, paniculate! v branched from 

 near the base; peduncle proper 3 inches long, flatten- 

 ed 1.5 inch wide; all branches reddish tinged; fruits 

 yellowish green, ellipsoid, 75 inch long, subtended by 

 dark red scales. Discovered in very damp wooded slopes 

 of moist rocky soil along the Pauala river at 2000 feet 

 altitude. The Visayan name is "Tibangan". 



It is evidently related to Pinanga insignis Becc, but 

 is apparently a smaller plant yet with larger fruits, and 

 having the surface of the seed reticulated all rouud by 

 the much anastomosing branches of the raphe. 



Pinanga urdanetensis Becc. sp. nov. 



Gracilis; frondium segmentis nonnihil numerosis, ma- 

 juscuhs, 8-9'cm. inter se dissitis, 3-costulat.is, lanceolate- 

 eusiformibus, apice leaviter falcatis et acuminato-caudati?, 

 g abns subtus pallidioribus; spadicibus parvis, ramis ad 

 14 lo alternato-spiralibus; periauthio fructifero parvo, 2.5 



TOOL I ' % fa , UCe ™ Parum «oharctato; fructibus disticis, 

 junionbus fu.siformibus, 14-15 mm. longis 



A slender tree, 2 to 5 m. high; the trunk 3 to 5 

 cm in diameter Leaf sheaths dotted with atropurpureous 

 scales; leaves 1 to 1.6 m. long, including the 30 to 45 

 cm long aubterete grayish furfuraceous petiole; the ra- 

 c lis is also covered with a grayish scurf; leaflets rather 

 numerous, 8 to 9 cm. apart on each side of the rachis, 



ftS r j^ r fa T ri stiff ' ve, -y dark »«*" -^ove 



n o . r /' mUCh ,,ghter and s«bglancous beneath, 



anceolately ens.form, strongly 3-costate a trifle narrowed 



Plant nearly straight, only a little and very gradually 

 falcate toward the apex which is produced to a narrow 

 linear strip; the intermediate leaflets 58 cm. long and ^ 

 to 4.0 cm. broad across the widest nnri-irm ™ „*■ i I 

 their middle. Spadix small, 5*2. ^TlohV^ 

 with a very short pedicellar part, composed of 15 much 

 spreading or diffused simple floriferous branches the 

 latter are inserted on the slender main Lx^uTl'nS? 

 ularly and at different points, flattened. 8 to 12 cm lone 

 2 to 2 5 mm. wide Fruiting perianth small, cupula?' 

 truncate and slightly contracted at the orifice 22 cm' 

 wide and a trifle shorter; young f ruits el psoi dally 7n- 

 s.form, 14 to 5 mm. long; some detached mature fruits 

 (apparently belonging to the same plant) are ovoid ly 



