Aug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



301' 



Oncosperma horrida Schef. in Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. 

 Ind. xxxil, 42, 1871. 



Field note for 11876:— Strict and slender trees; trunk 

 6 inches at the base, somewhat smaller toward the top, 

 at least 35 feet high, more or less wavy; sapwood reddish 

 brown, hard, comparatively thin, odorless and tasteless, 

 the balance lighter colored mass fibrous and pulpy; sheath 

 3 feet long, a trifle swollen, densely covered with brown 

 spines, otherwise giaucescently green; bark smooth, grayish 

 white, the dense rings toward the top beset with wavy 

 deflexed flattened grayish brown or nearly black spines 

 1.5 inch in length; leaves spreading, recurved, 12 feet 

 long; petiole short, usually expanded toward the base; 

 rachis flattened, beset with ; darkened or nearly black 

 spines on both sides below the middle; leaflets slightly 

 descending, corrugated, abruptly reduced and extended 

 nearly to the base, concave on the lower paler green 

 side especially toward the base, tough and quite rigid; 

 infrutescence hanging, upon 6 inches long broad and 

 much flattened peduncles which arise from below the 

 sheath; peduncle proper 4 inches wide at the base, spiny 

 on both sides between the spathe scars; branches green, 

 terete, wavy, 0.5 inch thick toward the base, averaging 

 2 feet long, the larger ones branched nearly to the base; 

 fruits 0.75 inch thick, globose, hard, dark green to dark 

 brown, shining; young flowers pale yellow, enclosed in 

 a flattened doubly spinescent much twisted bract. 



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

 May 1909, number 11876. Collected on a forested ridge 

 at 2500 feet altitude in the Talon sector. The Bagobo 

 name is "Tanaian. " Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta). Prov- 

 ince of Agusan, August 1912, number 13886. In moist 

 rocky ground of a forested ridge at 3000 feet altitude 

 near the headwaters of the Catangan creek. The Ma- 

 nobos called it "Anibung." 



Oncosperma gracilipes Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 

 II, 228, 1906. 



Luzon: Irosin (Mt. Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, 

 December 1915, number 15223. 



ORANIA Blm. 



Orania philippinensis sibuyanensis Becc. var. nov. 



A forma typica differt fructibus exacte sphaericis, 

 magnis, 6.5 cm. diam., mesocarpio.autem quam in forma 



