Aug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



3020 



5 to 7 branches alternating every 3 inches; branchlets 

 much twisted or curved, giving rise to alternating spikes, 

 whitish, subtended by long marcescent sheaths; spikes 

 terete, upon short whitish peduncles, ascending, usually 

 curved, averaging 3 inches long; flowers dense, pink at 

 least in the bud state. 



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

 1909, number 11879. Collected in rich moist soil of shallow 

 ravines in thickets near streams on the Talon or southern 

 portion of mount Apo at about 3000 feet altitude. The 

 Bagobo name is "Lacaubi," and it is said to bear globose 

 edible fruits 2 inches in diameter. 



KORTHALSIA BIm. 



Korthalsia laciniosa Mart, in Hist. Nat. Palm. in. 

 211, 1838. 



Field-note: — A tree climber; stem 1 inch thick or 

 thinner, looping and widely spreading, occasionally bran- 

 ched at right angles, the branches also long and green, 

 nearly twice as thick along the leaf bearing portion; 

 sheaths green, densely beset with yellowish green or 

 brown spines 0.75 inch long; the long interaxillary stipules 

 also spinescent and remaining as marcescent membranes; 

 petiole compressed, 0.5 to 0.75 inch wide at the base, 

 smooth or spiny, 6 inches long, without the prominent basal 

 shoulder; fronds descendingly recurved, 3 to 5 or the 

 larger ones 8 feet long, terminated in much shorter 

 hooked flagella; leaflets chartaceous, descending or sub- 

 pendant, rugulous, subglaucous beneath; rachis green, 

 hooked along the nether side; panicle terminal, a yard 

 long or longer; its branches spreading, curved, clothed 

 with smooth dark green spathes; the flower or fruit bearing 

 portion much curved, terete, fulvous, 0.5 inch thick. 



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

 July 1916, number 16672. In humid forested depressions 

 facing the Pacific ocean at 2000 feet altitude. 



Korthalsia sp. 



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

 December 1915, number 15634. 



PLECTOCOMIA Mart, et Bim. 



Plectocomia Elmeri Becc. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calc. 

 xn, p. ii, t. 22. 



Grandis, caudice vaginato 10 cm. diam,; frondium 

 segmentis per greges approximatis, utrinque glabris et 



