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

 May 1909, number 11880. In damp fertile ground among 

 thickets along streams on the Talon or southern sector 

 of mount Apo at 8000 feet altitude. "Nacat" in Bagobo. 



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

 November 1915 and July 1916. numbers 15060 and 16808 

 respectively. The field-notes for these specimens men- 

 tions the fruit as being sweet, luteous to aurantiacus 

 when ripe. In other respects the size and habitat of 

 the plant is the same as described above. 



Sibuyan: Magallanes (Mt. Giting giting), Province 

 of Capiz, May 1910, number 12494- This was noted in 

 the held as a looping climber whose old or sheathless 

 stem portion is one inch thick. 



Daemonorops ochrolepis Becc. in Fragm. PI. Philip. 



Field-note for 14120:— Lofty and looping tree climbers; 

 stem 1 inch thick, green, ringed every foot; the leafy 

 portion twice as thick, dark green, with a transverse 

 ring ot spines every inch or so; spines descending or 

 the younger ones divaricate, 1 to 1.5 inch long including 

 the yellowish green solid basal rim, the young ones 

 purplish and ascending while in the process of turning 

 over, the old ones dirty brown, not rigid; leaves spreading 

 and recurved, 1 foot apart, the rachis extended into a 

 dang ling hooked whip, 6 feet long including the stalk; petiole 

 1 foot in length, 1 inch wide, flattened, short spiny along 

 the edges, otherwise smooth, the basal shoulder likewise 

 smooth; leaflets thickly chartaceous, shining and deep 

 green on both sides only a trifle recurved the inside 

 strongly recurved; mfrutescence 5 feet long, smooth except 

 for the few spines along the edge of the peduncle proper, 

 alternating^ branched; its fruiting branches divaricate 

 or descending, dark green; fruits flatiy globose hptlpn 

 0.5 and 0.75 inch in diameter, sulphu/eofs except foi the 

 brownish tips of the scales, apex brown with numerous 

 small scales, the base subtended by marcescent bracts 



iQnQ Mmda K na0: ii« T 7 ? day ^ (Mt t ; Apo >> Dis *rict of Davao, May 

 1909, number 11875. The Baeobo* pj»h u "c i V- >, 



Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), g p, ov i n c e „f A^'n^nc 



tober 1912, number 14120. Collected in compact soil o, 



a small depression in a humid forested r°™ge of Cawi 



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



