Lug. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



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condition, having the calyx and corolla reduced to their 

 fibrous elements only. The fruits are borne on conspicuous 

 subtrigonous spadices, 8 to 10 mm. long, wide at the 

 apex from which it gradually narrows to the base and 

 inserted at a very acute angle formed by an elongated 

 involucrophorum supporting an also well evoluted involucre; 

 areola of the neuter flowers obscurely niche like. Fruit 

 globose to ovoid, shortly and very suddenly beaked, the 

 beak stout and obtuse, 15 to 16 mm. in diameter by 18 

 mm. long including the beak; scales in 15 vertical series, 

 usually 5 or 6 in each series are well conformed, the 

 2 or central ones are 4 to 5 mm. broad, the others are 

 smaller; they are all very shiny, very narrowly and neatly 

 grooved along the center, of a light straw color and 

 very narrowly bordered or at times quite obsolete or with 

 an intromarginal dark line, the extreme margins are very 

 narrowly scarious and minutely erose toothed; the apices 

 are slightly produced, appressed and blunt. Seed globose, 

 not depressed, 13 mm. in diameter, its surface slightly 

 uneven; the chalazal fovea is apical, pit like, penetrating 

 rather deeply; the embryo is placed in a belly-like de- 

 pression exactly at the base; the albumen is deeply ru- 

 minate. 



Mindanao: Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of 

 Agusan, October 1912, number 14201. Discovered in dense 

 forests of a gentle rocky slope at 5500 feet altitude or 

 about 500 feet above a small alpine lake. The Ma- 

 nobo name is "Sahaan." 



Field-note: —Middle sized tree climber; stem looping, 

 0.5 inch thick or only 33 toward the base, fully 1 

 inch thick along the leaf bearing portion; nodes every 

 8 inches apart, dark brown and quite smooth; sheaths 

 dull green, densely provided with brown bristles averaging 

 1 inch in length; leaves alternating every 8 inches, more or 

 less recurved, about 2 yards long without the subpen- 

 dant clawed rachis; petiole 10 inches long, 0.75 inch wide, 

 flattened and stoutly spiny even the thickened shoulder; 

 leaflets pendantly recurved, flat, chartaceous, equally 

 green on both sides; infrutescence arising nearly opposite 

 the leaves, 2 feet long, smooth, recurved, rather linearly 

 disposed, alternatingly rebranched; the fruit bearing 

 branchlets paniculately rebranched, angular; fruit 0.5 to 

 0.75 inch in diameter, globose, shining glaucous green 

 or yellowish, the margins of the scales pale brown; its 

 apex long and blunt. 



Daemonorops pannosus Becc, Daemonorops oligolepis Becc. 

 and Daemonorops urdanetanus Becc. are closely related species, 





