Aug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



3035 



scarious, very Inconspicuously erose and fringed with 

 hairs; apices obtuse. 



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

 1909, number 11600. 



Field-note: — A tree and jungle climber; stem 0.5 inch 

 thick, greenish or yellowish tinged, hard, smooth, the 

 leafy portion 2 inches thick; leaves alternatingly scattered, 

 ascending and then recurved, 6 feet long, the rachis 

 extended into a 3 feet long hooked appendage; petiole 

 1 foot long, flattened, 0.75 inch wide at the base; leaflets 

 horizontal and tips recurved, submembranous, slightly 

 paler green beneath; rachis spinescent along the upper 

 side, smoothish and with scattered recurved hooks beneath; 

 infrutescence ascending from the base, otherwise recurved, 

 smooth except the basal spathe, the branchlets covered 

 with a brown felt; spathes somewhat compressed toward 

 the base, grayish brown, the spines arranged in oblique 

 rows; infrutescence 2 to 3 feet long or longer, its branch- 

 lets ascending from the base but tips strongly recurved; 

 fruits 0.5 inch long, ellipsoid, tapering especially toward 

 the apex. Discovered in very humid ravines along the 

 Mainit creek at 4000 feet altitude. The Bagobo name 

 is "Sabilog." 



It is a well characterized species, belonging in the group 

 with Daemonorops lamprolepis Becc. and which it somewhat 

 resembles. It is distinguished by its leaf sheaths being 

 armed with seriate brown slender spines but having their 

 mouths smooth; by the leaflets having the midvein only 

 spinulous on both surfaces and furnished at the base 

 on the nether side with a rather conspicuous spinule; 

 by the female spadix being strict, having the primary 

 spathes chartaceous and covered with short seriate but 

 slender spiculae; by the short and thick few flowered 

 spikelets; by the ellipsoid fruit which is conically blunt 

 at the apex, borne on thick pedicels formed by the 

 subtrigonous to obpyramidal involucrophorum; and finally 

 by the soft and thick brown felt that covers all the 

 axial parts of the spadix but especially the spikelets. 



Daemonorops oligolepis Becc- sp. no v. 



Majusculus, caudice vaginato 4 cm. diam.; vaginis 

 in oro nudis, caetero spinis transverse seriatis crebre 

 armatis; frondium segmentis aequidistantibus, majoribus 

 35-40 cm. longis, 2.5 cm. latis subtus in costa media prope 

 basin spinuli feris et prope apicem setosis; superne tantum 

 prope apicem spinuliferis; spadicis parte axili et spicis 

 tomento ferrugineo indutis; frunctibus globosis, breviter 



