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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. viii, Art. 120 



pistillate flowers, 10 feet high and gradually tapering 

 from the ground, terminated by the inflorescence; leaves 

 numerous, ascendingly recurved, 12 to 20 feet long; pet- 

 iole one fourth the length of the frond, the larger 2.5 

 inehes wide at the base, roundish beneath, flattened and 

 shallowly grooved along the upper side especially toward 

 the base, smooth, dark dull green; the rather narrow 

 and thickly clasping imbricate sheaths copiously interlaced 

 with long coarse ater colored fibrous hairs; leaflets 

 strongly recurved, smooth and dark green above, glau- 

 cescently white beneath, flat; midrib carinate on the nether 

 side, grooved on the upper, arranged in subwhorls from the 

 upper portion of the triangular rachis, 2 to 6 in a whorl, the 

 lowermost of each whorl suberect, the middle ones ascend- 

 ing, the uppermost ones horizontal, not rigidly coria- 

 ceous; female inflorescence upon a terete 2 feet long 

 strongly recurved green peduncle, at least a yard 

 long; branches arising from all sides, pendulous, 2 feet 

 in length; peduncle fully 1 inch thick and with 1 foot 

 long green bracts; corolla creamy white, calyx and ovary 

 green as are all the stalks, flowers very sweetly fragrant. 



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

 May 1909, number 11192. Gathered in good soil near 

 the upper densely wooded steep slope along the Bara- 

 catan creek ravine at 1250 feet altitude. The Bagobos 

 call it "Baris." 



Arenga tremula (Blco.) Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 

 iv, 612, 1909. Caryola tremula Blco. pi Pilip. 744, 

 1837. 



Field-note:— Dense clumps; stem 6 inches thick, 10 

 feet high, entirely covered with old shredded leaf bases; 

 wood soft and doty white; leaves varying from 10 to 

 20 feet in length, ascending from the base, otherwise 

 strongly recurved; the rachis smooth, dark green, 2.5 

 inches thick at the base where it is nearly flat on the 

 upper side, the terminal two thirds pinnae bearing; base 

 of petiole far extended and clasping the trunk, the edges 

 becoming shredded into brownish black coarse fibers, 

 persistent for years and are usually bract covered; the 

 middle pinnae 2 to 3 feet long, all descendingly curved, 

 the sides twistingly undulate, the younger ones deep 

 green above, whitish green on the lower surface, the 

 immature ones rather broader, the older ones chartaceous; 

 inflorescence 2 feet long, seldom paniculately branched, all 

 the stalks rigid and green; flowers also rigid, soon fal- 

 ling after anthesis, of a peculiar f fennel odor, dark red on 



