aig. 25, 1919] 



Palms of the Philippine Islands 



3043 



laminaribus seriatis patentibus, in ore erectis et valde 

 elongatis, arinatis; frondium segmentis aequidistantibus, 

 anguste ensiformibus longe etsensim acuminatis, mejoribus 

 55-60 cm. longis, 20 22 mm. latis, superne glabris vel 

 prope apicem in costa media spinulosis, subtus in costa 

 media solummodo sparse setosis; spadicis ramis et spicis 

 angulo valde acuto insertis; fruetibus globosis, 12 mm. 

 diam., abrupte breviterque conice rostratis, una cum rostro 

 et perianthio 15 mm. longis, involucro pedicelliformi 

 subobconico, 3 5 mm. longo, sulfultis; semine sphaerico, 

 chalazae fovea profunda inconspicua punctiformi. 



A moderate sized tree climber. Sheathed stem 3 

 cm. in diameter, naked canes 15 to 20 mm. thick. Leaf 

 sheaths armed with closely seriate spreading slender 

 elongate laminar black spines, the spines at the mouth 

 of the leaf sheath much longer and broader than the 

 others and erect. Leaves large, 1.8 m. in the pinniferous 

 part; petiole 50 to 60 cm. long, slightly flattened, armed 

 all around with unequal spreading prickles, rachis prickly 

 on the upper salient angle and armed underneath at 

 regular distances with half whorls of hooks, the cirrus 

 robust and similarly armed as the rachis. Leaflets very 

 numerous, broader in the lower third, thence very gradually 

 long acuminate, one half of the nerves smooth on the 

 upper surface except for the few 8 pinnies near the 

 apices, on the nether side only the midvein has a few 

 short bristles, margins appressed spinulous; transverse 

 veinlets sharp; the intermediate leaflets are 55 to 60 

 cm. long and 20 to 22 mm. broad. Fruiting spadix thinly 

 rusty furfuraceous in every part, recurved; its pedicellat- 

 portion is spiny; panicle strict, averaging 60 cm. in length, 

 with several approximate gradually reduced partial in- 

 florescences, the lower of which is 13 to 15 cm. long 

 and bears distically 6 to 8 s pikelets on each side; the 

 latter are inserted at a very acute angle, not spreading; 

 the lowest and largest of them are 6 to 8 cm. long and 

 carry distically 6 to 8 fruits on each side; involucrophorum 

 pedicelliform, slightly obconical. 5 to 6 mm. long. Fruit 

 quite mature, globose and suddenly conically beaked, 12 

 mm. in diameter, 15 mm. long including the beak and 

 perianth; scales in 15 vertical series, exactly rhomboidal, 

 greenish, polished, very neatly and narrowly grooved 

 along the center, strongly appressed, the margins quite 

 narrowly scarious, faintly bordered by a reddish brown, 

 the tip obtuse. Seed globular, 9 mm. in diameter, minutely 

 tubercled, a trifle less convex on the raphal side, chalazal 

 fovea punctiform, barely distinguishable from the outside, 



