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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vin, Art. 120 



its fruits borne on longer and narrower pedicels; the 

 fruits themselves are spherical and with only 2 or 3 

 large and well conformed scales in each arthostichy, all 

 the other scales being much reduced in size. 



Daemonorops urdanetanus Becc. sp. nov. 



Mediocris, caudice vaginato 2.5 cm. diam.; vaginis 

 in ore nudis, caetero spinis gracilibus, transverse seriatis, 

 crebre armatis; frondium segmentis, aequidistantibus, 

 majoribus 30 cm. longis, 15 16 mm. latis, supra secus 

 nervos 3 et subtus tantum secus costam mediam setosis; 

 spicis foemineis rubiginose toraentosis, erecto-patulis, 

 majoribus 5-6 cm. longis, paucifloris; fructibus globoso- 

 ovoideis breviter abrupteque rostratis, rostro crasso et 

 obtuso, 18 mm. longis 15-16 mm. crassis, pedicello gracili 

 usque ad 10 mm. longo suffultis; squamis per orthostichas 

 15 dispositis; semine globoso minime depresso. 



Scandent and of moderate size. The sheathed stem 

 2.5 cm. in diameter. Leaf sheath armed with approximate 

 oblique or transverse interrupted series of slender brown 

 spines, coalescent by their bases; the margin of the 

 orifice thin and unarmed. Leaves about 1.5 m. long in 

 the segmented portion; the petiole 25 cm. long, somewhat 

 flattened, variously prickly; rachis conspicuously spinescent 

 tbroughout on the upper side and armed beneath with 

 3 to 5-nate robust claws. Leaflets numerous, equidistant, 

 linearly lanceolate, acuminate to subulate apices and 

 produced into filamentous bristly tips, concolorous, 

 rigidulous, conspicuously bristly on the upper surface 

 along the midvein and along 1 nerve on each side of 

 it; only the midrib beneath is bristly; transverse veinlets 

 short and interrupted; the margins appressed and very 

 minutely spinulous; the intermediate leaflets are 30 cm. 

 long and 15 to 16 mm. broad. Female spadix strict, at 

 first erect, apparently nodding when in fruit, 65 cm. 

 long and composed of 6 superposed appressed approximate 

 partial inflorescences; with all its axial parts but especially 

 the spikelets clothed with a coating of adherent rusty 

 scurf. Partial inflorescences erect, appressed to the main 

 axis, the lower ones about 10 cm. long, carrying on 

 each side 5 or 6 gradually shortened spikelets which 

 are inserted at a rather acute angle; spikelets with a 

 thick rigid trigonous main axis, the largest of them in 

 the lower parts of the partial inflorescences are 5 to 6 

 cm. long and contain 4 or 5 flowers only on each side; 

 the upper spikelets reduced and have fewer flowers. 

 The fruiting perianth is almost explanate yet in a decayed 



