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Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vni, Art. 120 



in circles; frond 4 feet in length, the rachis extended 

 into a strongly clawed appendage; leaflets much recurved 

 or nearly drooping, thinly chartaceous, similarly dark 

 green on both sides; infrutescence arising from above 

 the leaf axils, in the fruiting state recurved; the peduncle 

 proper compressed, spiny, also dark green; branches few, 

 alternating, recurved, smooth, lax; mature fruits or nuts 

 cremeous except the brown margined scales, 0.5 inch long, 

 truncately ellipsoid especially at the apex which is ter- 

 minated by a short rather stout point. 



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

 1909, number 11896. In forests south of mount Apo at 

 3500 feet altitude. This the Bagobos also called "Rogman." 

 Cababaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, August 

 and October 1912, numbers 14132 and 13853. The Ma- 

 nobos call the first number "Obanoban" and the other 

 '"Hiyod." Collected both numbers on a steep forested 

 incline or ridge of Cawilanan peak at 4750 feet altitude. 



The specimens on which this species is established 

 were formerly referred by me to Daemonorops Curranii Becc. 

 which however belongs to the group of species having 

 like Daemonorops Hystrix Mart, the mouth of the leaf sheath 

 armed with long spines; whereas Daemonorops pedicellaris 

 Becc. is related to species which, like Daemonorops lamprolepis 

 Becc. have that portion unarmed and the spathes cov- 

 ered with slender acicular spines. Our present new species 

 is particularly distinguishable by the great development 

 of the involucrophorum, causing the fruit to appear very 

 distinctly pedicellate.^ The length of this pedicel however 

 varies, in Mr. Elmer's numbers it attains 5 to 6 mm. 

 in length, while in Mrs. Clemen's Mindanao specimen number 

 1280 the pedicel is barely one half as long. In my 

 monograph of the genus Daemonorops, I supposed 1280 

 Clemens from Lake Lanao to belong to Daemonorops Curranii 

 Becc, but now I consider it only a robust form of Daemonorops 

 pedicellaris Becc. Good diagnostic characters are also found 

 in the leaflets having 5 Ibristly nerves above and the 

 midrib beneath; the spreading spikelets having few rather 

 distant flowers on each side; the ovoid elliptical shortly 

 beaked fruits; and the tubercled seed without the distinct 

 chalazal fovea. The size of the fruit also varies, 11896 

 Elmer from Todaya has somewhat smaller fruits than 

 his other two numbers and which I consider as the true 

 type specimens. 



Daemonorops affinis Becc. sp. nov. 



Mediocris, caudice vaginato 3 cm. diam.; vaginis spinis 



