Aug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



3031 



on both sides; the shoulder of the petiole base and the 

 glaucous green sheath densely beset with flattened spines 

 0.5 to 1.5 inches long and arranged in transverse rows; 

 pistillate inflorescence leaf opposed, usually several, the 

 upper ones in anthesis while the lower ones bear fruit, 

 ascending or suberect, upon a short spiny stalk; bracts 

 10 inches long, pointed, the outer ones gray and spines- 

 cent, the inner yellowish and smooth, the pedicels and 

 flowers similar in color and covered with an ochraceous 

 scurfy powder, persistently included by the bracts and 

 only bursting by the development of the fruit; pedicels 

 of fruits green and smooth; nuts fully 0.5 inch in diameter, 

 globose, green except the dark brown persistent stigma 

 and lighter brown bract margins. 



Palawan: Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Province 

 of Palawan, April 1911, number 12943. Pound along 

 woodland brooks at 250 feet altitude. 



Daemonorops Gaudichaudii Mart, in Hist. Nat. Palm, 

 in, 331, 1849. 



Field-note for 11880: — Subscandent; stems 3 to 5, 

 arising from the same root cluster, not very long, more 

 or less densely covered with old persistent sheaths clear 

 to the base where the woody portion is 0.5 inch thick, 

 the leaf bearing portion 2.5 inches across; leaves ascending 

 though finally recurved, 6 inches apart, alternate, 6 feet 

 long, extended into a 4 feet long hooked rachis; petiole 

 yellowish green, compressed, 1 inch wide at the base, 

 provided with spines which are especially long beneath; 

 rachis hooked along the nether side, spiny along the 

 ridge above; leaflets slightly darker green on the upper 

 surface, reduced toward the apex and somewhat more 

 scattering, subchartaceous, descendingly curved; sheath 

 green, densely beset with 3 to 5 inches long divaricate 

 spines which are more or less united at their flattened 

 bases and arranged in transverse lines; those on the 

 margins of the sheaths more numerous and unequal in 

 length, promiscuously scattered, much ascending, the 

 longer ones 10 inches; infrutescence axillary, ascending from 

 the base, otherwise pendulous, about 3 feet long, bearing 

 3 to 5 alternating branches 6 inches apart, its basal bract is 

 densely provided with spines on the exterior; stalk smooth, 

 slender, flexible, covered with a dark brown pulverulence; 

 the branches average 6 inches in length, rather densely 

 and finely rebranched, its pedicels with their subtend- 

 ing bracts brown; fruit less than 0.5 inch long, similar- 

 ly tapering at both ends, very dark and dull green. 



