Aug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



3037 



mature 17 to 18 mm- in diameter; scales in 12 vertical 

 series but usually only 4 of them well conformed in 

 each series, and of these only the 2 or 3 central ones 

 largest and exactly rhomboidal and 7 mm. broad, the 

 others being considerably smaller; otherwise the scales 

 are very shiny, quite narrowly and neatly grooved along 

 the center, of a light straw color and very narrowly 

 bordered with an intramarginal darker line, and with 

 the extreme margins very narrowly scarious and minutely 

 erose toothed, their apices are obtuse. Seed globose, 

 very slightly depressed, 13 to 14 mm. in diameter; its 

 surface is a trifle uneven, the chalazal fovea is apical, 

 very small, punctiform and narrow inside; the embryo 

 is placed in a belly like depression exactly at the base; 

 the albumen is deeply and very closely ruminate. 



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

 1909, number 11757. Discovered in dense jungled woods 

 of a steep ridge near the junction of - the Colon creek 

 with the Baruring river at 3750 feet altitude. Its Ba- 

 gobo vernacular name is "Rogman." 



Field note: — Scandent and looping; old stem 0.5 inch 

 thick, green, the greater portion covered with the dry, 

 brittle and persistent sheaths; leaves scattered every 8 in- 

 ches toward the top, alternate, horizontally recurved, 6 feet 

 long or shorter, terminated into a yard long clawed 

 rachis; petiole proper 1 foot long, usually ascending, 

 flattish, 1 inch wide at the base, densely spinescent 

 along the upper side, less so toward the distal end; 

 leaflets papyraceous, descending, rather strict, similarly 

 dull green on both surfaces, the sides folded or descending: 

 sheaths densely covered with 1.25 inch long needle-like 

 brown spines, dull green otherwise; infrutescence opposite 

 the leaves and a trifle below them, but occasionally in 

 their axils, recurved and subpendulous, 3 feet long; 

 spathe at the base spinescent, otherwise glabrous or spine- 

 less; the more or less angular ultimate stalks covered with 

 a brown integument; fruit globose, at least 0.5 inch in 

 diameter, glassy pale green or turning to a deathly white 

 when fully mature, the minute apical scales grayish, 

 the others with brownish tips, the ripe fruit very insipid. 

 It is very closely related to Daemmorops pannoaus Becc. 

 which it much resembles in its vegetative organs, but 

 it is a larger plant than that and whose leaflets on the 

 lower side are devoid of the solitary spinule at their bases; 

 instead of that solitary spinule which is a special character 

 of Daemonorops pannoms Becc, there are in Daemonorops oligolepis 

 Becc. several smaller spinules. It also differs in having 



