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30 feet high, abruptly constricted below the crown, 2 feet 

 across, rugose with the coarse and transverse shredded 

 rings; thin sapwood whitish, its peripheral portion hard 

 and black, the greater central portion soft and pulpy, 

 bitter to taste; mfrutescences many, alternating and 

 rather closely set; peduncle divaricate. 1.5 foot long, 

 flattened, 3 inches wide, subtended by dry and per- 

 sistent triangular bracts, covered with glaucous green 

 sheath-like bracts; branched portion 3 feet long by 2 feet 

 wide, numerously and paniculately rebranched, all branches 

 whitish; fruit fully 0.5 inch in diameter, globose, hard, 

 dull green and with fine lighter colored spots, upon slender 

 pedicels, solitary or in pairs; leaves from a young tree, 

 ascending, crowded; petiole 10 feet long, expanded at 

 the base angular in shape, triangular on the upper 

 side, dark green, the thick keel beneath rounded, the 

 upper edge provided with stout usually recurved teeth; 

 blade orbicular, 8 feet across, at least one half incised, 

 sharply plicate below the middle, the free segments shal- 

 lowly curved upon the upper side. 



,, U l™£ n * 0: Jodaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao. 

 May 1909, number 11965. Collected in dry well drained 



S u> °i W °£? S 5 th ? hills back of Vigos at 500 feet 

 altitude. The Bagobos call it "Serar" 



M a , L i U Qo? : LuC T ban, ^o t ; Banaha °), Province of Tayabas, 

 May 1907, number 8294. 



Sibuyan: Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of 

 Capiz, April 1910, number 12567. 



These no doubt are forms of the "Buri" species, and as 

 such, is a very useful plant. Its foliage is made into 

 hats mats and bags. At Lucban I have seen large rice bags 

 patched not only once but two or three times over These 

 bags were said to be over twenty years old, and every year 

 once or twice they were thoroughly washed and mended 

 before they were filled with the new crop. The sap of 

 this large tree is sometimes made into crude sugar, or 

 after fermentation is used as a beverage by the natives. 



™!f£i If 1S mu tre( ^ enfc J y ? S ?, d by the P° or Peo^e as food 

 material The island of Bunas was so named because 

 of the abundance of these palms on it. When the species 

 come into flower, the foliage drops off partially at least 

 and in many cases completely, dying after fruition. 



LIVISTONA R. Br. 



Livistona rotundifolia microcarpa Becc. var. nov Liv- 

 istona microcarpa Becc. in (Philip. Journ. Sci. n, 231, 1907. 



