Aug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



3023 



the outside, yellowish on the interior, the numerous 

 stamens of the same yellow color; fruits globosely ellipsoid, 

 2 inches long. 



Palawan: Brooks Point (Addison Peak), Province of 

 Palawan, March 1911, number 12596. Collected in damp 

 fertile soil near swampy places of woods at 25 feet 

 altitude near the cost. The Tagbanua name is "Batbat." 



A native who accompanied me in the field carried 

 with him a slender bamboo pole of a Schizostachyum species, 

 and as I first thought as a mere cane or staff. But 

 whenever he wanted a light for his cigarette, he would 

 pull out a small but very fine tinder mass from under 

 the sheaths of this palm, would carefully place and firmly 

 hold it over a small piece of procelain or some other 

 sort of crockery, and strike it against his silica roughened 

 bamboo stick. Invariably he got a light even when it was 

 raining. 



Arenga ambong Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. n, 229, 

 1907. Wallichia oblongifolia (non Griff.) Becc. in Webbia I, 

 48, 1905. 



Field-note: — Dense clusters 5 to 8 feet across; trunks 

 several, ascendingly curved from the base, 6 inches thick, 

 the bractless portion only a yard or two long, the sheath 

 bearing portion thicker and two to three times as long; 

 sheath fibers dirty brown or nearly black; leaves many, 

 ascending, varying from 10 to 25 feet long; petiole 1 

 to 3 yards long, green, 6 inches across at the base, 

 shallowly grooved along the upper side; leaflets horizontal 

 or descending, grooved and twisted toward the base, 

 margins coarsely undulate, deep green above, glaucous 

 beneath, chartaceous; infrutescence axillary, a yard long, 

 the short stout peduncle recurved, the numerous branches 

 pendant; buds of staminate flowers yellowish red, the 

 anthers deep yellow, with a strong old honey odor; nuts 

 1 inch long, glaucous green, hard and very tightly 

 attached. 



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

 June 1916, number 16237. In well drained black soil of 

 woods skirting the upper edge of a deep creek gulch 

 at 500 feet altitude. 



CORYPHA Linn. 



Corypha elata Roxb. Fl. Ind. II, 176, 1832. 

 Field-note for 11965:— A giant tree; trunk dark brown, 



