Aug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



3015 



spissis); fructibus ovoideis, 1 cm. longis, 7 mm. eras- 

 sis, apice conico leaviter obliquo, pericarpio sclerosomis 

 linearibus notato. 



A very slender tree 9 m. high by 12 em. in diameter 

 at its base, narrowing to 6 cm. at the top. Leaves 

 about 2.5 m. long including the rather elongated pet- 

 iole; leaflets numerous, equidistant, papyraceous, quite 

 rigid, ensiform, green, a trifle paler beneath, very grad- 

 ually acuminate to a slightly falcate point, also narrow- 

 ing toward the base; its midvein sharp, provided beneath 

 with some rather large chaffy scales, with 2 sharp sec- 

 ondary nerves on each side; the tertiary nerves also 

 very sharp, rendering the 2 surfaces distinctly striate; 

 margins somewhat thickened, especially the upper one; 

 the transverse veinlets obsolete; intermediate leaflets 50 

 cm. long by 3 cm. broad. Spadix axillary, apparently 

 three times branched, recurved and pendulous; the pan- 

 icle large, ovate in outline, nearly 60 cm. long, borne 

 by a flattened peduncle nearly 1 m. long; fruiting branchlets 

 subterete, minutely wrinkled, 2.5 mm. in diameter. 

 Fruiting perianth cupular, 3.5 mm. broad, calyx base 

 acute; the sepals smooth, gibbous, polished; corolla twice 

 as long as the calyx, the petals have their apices striate; 

 floral bracteoles small and irregular. Fruit ovoid, acute 

 but slightly oblique in its conical upper part, 1 cm. 

 long, 7 mm. through, its surface distinctly sagrined in 

 its dry state by linear sclerosomes. Seed globosely 

 ovoid, with round base and broadly conical upper part, 

 7 mm. long, 6 mm. broad. The fruit when mature is 

 bright red, the pulp reddish brown, the black fibers 

 of the mesocarp coarse and hard. 



Sibuyan: Magallanes (Mt. Giting giting), Province of 

 Capiz, April 1910, number 12350. Field note:— A very 

 slender tree; trunk 4 inches thick, nearly 30 feet high, 

 2 inches thick at the top; bark brown, smoothish or ringed 

 toward the foliage; wood fibers of rind hard and black, 

 the coarse pulpy mass reddish brown; leaves ascendingly 

 spreading, gracefully recurved, 8 feet long; petiole about 

 one half as long, 3 inches wide at the base, 1 inch 

 thick where the leaflets begin, triangular, smooth and 

 green, not sheathing at the base but the edges pronounced 

 with marcescent fringes; leaflets slightly ascending, flat, 

 a trifle paler green beneath, reduced toward the apex; 

 inflorescence arising from the upper leaf axils; peduncle 

 1 yard long, flattened, strongly recurved toward the 

 base where it is provided with a, few ensiform sheaths 

 which early become marcescent; panicle subpendulous, 



