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washed through, the deposits in the bark vats were allowed 

 to stand about a day or more, in order to dry and become 

 somewhat hardened. Then the contents was taken out and 

 sun dried, and soon thereafter it was ready for use. 



During my botanical excursion into the mountains 

 of northern Agusan province in 1912, the Manobos oc- 

 casionally received shipments from the south or from the 

 upper Agusan river region of the same food and which 

 they called by exactly the same name or "Lumbia". The 

 meal usually reached us in 25 pound parcels, wrapped up 

 and sewed tight in palm sheaths, — making a round bundle, 

 pointed at the bottom and truncate at the top. The flour 

 is dingy white and often had a reddish tinge. There were 

 a few grades as to purity, yet all nourishing food. I 

 became rather fond of it, either boiled or fried and used it 

 with cream and sugar. Cabadbaran is practically the 

 northern most range limit of the sago palm, and since 

 my headquarters were to the north of that town, I was 

 unable to secure specimens of the plant. But on my 

 way home, I first had to go on a local steamer up 

 the Agusan river to Butuan, and along the river banks 

 I noticed a few clumps of these trees which they say are 

 common in the swampy lake regions at the upper waters 

 of the Agusan river. To me they seemed quite different 

 from my Todaya specimens — notably in having longer 

 smooth grayish white trunks, but especially in having 

 smooth or rather spineless sheaths and petioles. 



ZALACCA Reinw. 



Zalacca Clemen siana Becc. 

 618, 1909. 



in Philip. Journ. Sci. iv, 



Field-note:— Large and dense tufts, stemless, about 

 7 to 13 in a cluster; leaves 3 to 5 in a bunch, the 

 central ones erect, the outer ones ascending, 15 feet 

 long or longer; petiole convex below and densely provided 

 with needle-like 2 to 3 inches long spines, deeply 

 grooved along the upper side, otherwise smooth, margins 

 shredded and broadly expanded at the base, green or with 

 glaucescent blotches; leaflets ascending from the base, 

 strongly recurved, the slender tips pendulous, tough and 

 rigid, dark green and sublucid above, glaucous or chalky 

 white beneath, irregular in groups; rachis rounded beneath 

 and with scattered spines, smooth and angular above, 

 dirty or dingy glaucescent beneath; inflorescence arising 

 from the side and base of the expanded petiole, erect, 

 2 to 3 feet high, the stalk at the base 1 inch thick, with 



