Aug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



3021 



the basal one third leafless, 2 inches thick at the base; 

 sheaths dull green, the edges becoming shredded, ascending 

 and clasping the stem, 3 to 5 feet long; middle leaflets 

 longest, subpendant, the terminal margins usually undulate, 

 similarly deep green on both sides, lucid on the upper 

 surface; infrutescence few to several, along the stem 

 below the foliage, axillary or near the side of the sheath 

 base, numerously branched paniculately; main stalk recurv- 

 ed, 1.5 foot in length, densely bracteated; rachis terete, 

 yellowish green, bendable, at least 1 foot long; fruits 

 globosely flattened, yellowish, always less than 0.5 inch 

 across, with somewhat viscid juice. 



Palawan: Brooks Point (Addison Peak), Proyince of 

 Palawan, February 1911, number 12606. Gathered in black 

 moist fertile soil of woods along sluggish streams near 

 the cost. "Bato" is the Tagbanua name. 



ARENGA Labil. 



Arenga saccharifera Labil. in Mem. Inst. Pr. iv. 209, 

 1801. 



Field-note for 9296: — An erect solitary tree; trunk 

 40 feet high or much less, 1 to 2 feet in diameter, clothed 

 with nearly black well interlaced fibrous matting pro- 

 duced from the leaf bases; fronds very long, ascending; 

 petiole stiff, triangular, gradually tapering from the 6 

 inches wide base; leaflets divaricate, smooth, shining 

 green above, glaucous white beneath, the sides strongly 

 recurved; fruit cluster from 1 to 5 on each tree and of 

 different ages; peduncle very strong, thick, ascending, 

 2 to 5 feet long, distal end pendulous and which grad- 

 ually divides into many fruit bearing stalks; fruits den- 

 sely clustered throughout, sessile, subtended by 3 very 

 thick bracts, nearly 2 inches long by 1.5 inch wide, 

 3-umbonate toward the sunken apex, orange to lemon 

 yellow when mature: stones or seeds 3, very hard, 

 black. 



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

 May 1907, numbers 9296 aud 7644. The young woody pulp 

 is sometimes used as food material. The Tagalogs name 

 it 4i Caong". 



Arenga mindorensis Becc. in Fragm. Fl. Philip. 48, 

 1904. 



Field-note:— Dense clumps from 5 to 8 feet across; 

 some of these stems are 8 inches thick at the base and bear 



