Aug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



3033 



November 1915 and August 1916, numbers 14838 and 

 16869 respectively. 



Daemonorops Curranii Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. II, 

 238, 1907. 



Field-note:— Looping and climbing; stems rigid, 0.75 

 inch thick, dark green, jointed every 7 inches, the leafy 

 portion 2 inches thick; fronds horizontal and recurved 

 toward the distal ends, 8 feet long, rather crowded; 

 sheaths yellowish green, composed of large prominent 

 spinescent petiole bases or shoulders; the petiole proper 

 nearly 1 foot long, 1.5 inch wide at the base, flattened, 

 spinescent on both sides; rachis of the frond 1 yard long 

 and provided with hooked recurved spines; leaflets de- 

 scending or pendant, pale or yellowish green on both 

 sides, dry and parchment like, flat or curved upon the 

 lower surface; infrutescence 1 yard long, ascending and 

 finally recurved, pale green and mostly covered with a 

 scurfy brown, in the young state enclosed in a foot 

 long spinescent bract; fruit ovoidly globose or acorn-like, 

 green except the light gray apical portion, less than 

 0.5 inch in diameter. 



Palawan: Brooks Point (Addison Peak), Province of 

 Palawan, March 1911, number 12663. Among thickets 

 and trees of a sheltered place in wet ground bordering 

 swamps near the seacoast. In Tagbanua "Saranoy." 



Daemon orops pannosus Becc. sp. nov, 



Mediocris, caudice vagifiato 2.5 3 cm. diam; vaginis 

 in ore nudis, caetero spinis oblique seriatis crebre armatis; 

 frondium segmentis aequidistantibus, majoribus 30 32 

 cm. longis, 2.5 cm. latis, in costa media tantum utrinque 

 spinulosis et infra, ad basin, spinula solitaria munitis; 

 spathis primariis chartaceis, spiculis fasciculatis vel bre- 

 viter seriatis praeditis; spicis foemineis erecto-patulis 

 una cum spadicis parte axili tomento brunneo pannoso 

 indutis, brevibus, paucifloris; mojoribus 5-6 cm. longis, 

 flores 4 6 utrinque ferentibus; fructibus ovoideoellipticis, 

 obtusis, 15-16 mm. longis, 11 mm. crassis, involucro 

 crasso subtrigonoobpyramidato pedicel lif or mi suffultis; 

 perianthio fructifero breviter obconico, dilacerato. 



Scandent and of moderate size. Sheathed stem 2.5 

 to 3 cm. in diameter. Leaf sheaths armed with approximate 

 oblique or transversely interrupted series of slender brown 

 spines which are coalescent by their bases; the margin 

 of the mouth thin and unarmed. Leaves about 1 m. long 



