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yota Rumphiana Mart, in Fragm. Fl. Philip. 48, 1904. 



Field- note for 10940:— Tree 45 feet high and with a 

 7 inch thick round stem; wood hard, black, heavy on 

 the outside, the middle portion fibrous, pithy in the 

 center; sheath 2 to 4 feet long, not swollen but rather 

 closely appressed and imbricated, thick, rigid, the edges 

 giving rise to fine black hairs which neatly interlace; 

 fronds 10 feet long, ascending at first, later descending, 

 pinnate clear to the base; rachis 2 inches thick at the 

 base, hard, dark green, rounded on the lower side, 

 2-sided on the I upper; leaflets heavy, drooping, the 

 flattened rachilla recurved, coriaceous, shining deep green 

 above and paler beneath; infrutescence axillary, upon 

 3 inches thick and 1 to 2 feet long hanging peduncle; 

 the fruiting spikes numerous, yellowish green, arranged 

 about the terete receptacle to within a foot of the base; 

 fruits grayish or occasionally tinged with red, impressed, 

 0.75 inch through, sublucid, with 3 thick bracts. 



Mindanao: Today a (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, 

 May 1909, number i0940. Along the Baracatan creek 

 in woods at 1500 feet altitude. Its Bagobo name is 

 "Pola." Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agu- 

 san, August 1912, number 13623 b . In more or less stony 

 ground of dense woods near the Catangan creek at 1750 

 feet altitude. The Manobo name is "Pogahan." 



Luzon: Lucban (Mt. Banahao), Province of Tayabas, 

 May 1907, number 9301. Irosin (Mt. Bulusan), Province 

 of Sorsogon, November 1915 and May 1916, numbers 

 14929, 15572 and 15931. 



The general dimensions of this plant are about the 

 same as those of typical forms from the Moluccas, but 

 the fruit is smaller; the pinnae or leaflets have their 

 outer margins very irregularly and obtusely or at times 

 acutely toothed; the male flowers are 15 to 17 mm. 

 long and have 40 to 60 stamens. Fruits 18 to 24 mm. 

 in diameter, spherical when monosperm, broader than 

 long when they contain two seeds; the fruiting perianth 

 is 10 to 11 mm- across. 



Caryota mitis Lour, in Fl, Cochinch. n, 569, 1790. 



Field-note:— Rather slender trees; trunks usually 3 to 

 5 in a cluster, the adult ones 6 inches thick and nearly 

 20 feet high, terete, conspicuously ringed every 9 inches, 

 dull grayish brown and smooth; wood fibrous, pithy in 

 the center; leaves ascending and recurved, 15 feet long, 



