Aug. 25, 1919] 



'alms of the Philippine Islands 



3013 



green and rusty or scurfy brown covered, subtended by 

 an old sheath; branches spreading, terete, green, bend- 

 able; fruits scattered from all sides, yellow, when ripe 

 velvety deep red. Collected on a very steep wooded 

 incline of humus covered rocky soil at 1500 feet alti- 

 tude. 



It is closely related to Ptyckoraphis microcarpa Becc, 

 and from which it differs in its larger spariix, in having 

 longer and thicker fruit bearing branches; in having the 

 three nerves besides the mid vein on the lower side of 

 the leaflets provided with paleolae; but it especially differs 

 in the shape and size of the fruits, in the seeds being rounded 

 at both ends and marked by the close net work formed 

 by the branches of the raphe. Both Ptyckoraphis micro- 

 carpa Becc. and Ptyckoraphis intermedia Becc. are more related 

 to Ptyckoraphis angusta Becc. of the Nicobars than to Pty- 

 ckoraphis singaporensis Becc. of the Malay Peninsula and 

 Singapore. 



HETEROSPATHE Schef. 



Heterospathe elata Schef. in Ann. 

 I, 141 et 162, 1876. 



Jard. Bot. Buit, 



Field-note:— A slender and straight tree; trunk 8 inches 

 by 35 feet; peripheral wood hard with dull brown fibers, 

 the inner or central mass pithy and strewn with fibers; 

 bark smooth, rings obscure, grayish white mottled; leaves 

 several, spreading horizontally, the terminal portion be- 

 coming much recurved and twisted, 6 to 10 feet long, 

 leaflet bearing nearly to the base; segments similarly 

 recurved or drooping, tough, slightly paler green be- 

 neath; petiole 1 to 2 feet long, flattened, 3 inches wide, 

 the upper edges rather sharp, the basal 1.5 foot much 

 expanded and provided with stipularly shredded sheaths; 

 infrutescence arising from the lowermost leaf axils, 3 

 to 5 feet long, recurved, broadly and paniculately bran- 

 ched from below the middle; peduncle proper 2 feet 

 long in the larger ones, conspicuous, 3 inches wide at 

 the base, covered with a green rigid sheath-like bract; 

 all the stalks pale or grayish white; young fruits green, 

 then turning to a shining death white coloi, ultimately 

 red. globose, between 0.33 to 0.5 inch in diameter. 



Mindanao: Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao. 

 May 1909, number 11968. Collected in fertile moist soil 

 of wooded flats a few miles interior from the coast at 

 Digos. In Bagobo ''Salaniog. '" 



Heterospathe philippinensis (Becc.) Becc. nom. nov. 



