Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vin, Art. 120 



but penetrating as a very narrow channel almost to the 

 center of the seed. Albumen very deeply ruminate. 



Mindanao: Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of 

 Agusan, October 1912, number 13978. Discovered in jungled 

 forests on the summit of Duros peak at 4000 feet altitude. 

 Vernacular name In Manobo is "Bag-bag." 



Field-note: — A looping climber; old stem 0.5 to 0.75 

 inch thick, round and smooth, dull green but the greater 

 length is covered by the old dry sheaths, leaf bearing 

 portion 1.5 inch thick without the spines; fronds alter- 

 natingly scattered every 6 inches, mostly divaricate and 

 gracefully recurved, 10 feet long including the 2 feet 

 long spiny and subcompressed petiole which is 0.75 inch 

 wide at the base and yellowish green; sheaths densely 

 beset with 1.5 inch long dark brown and flattened spines 

 which are divaricate and transversely arranged; those 

 along the sheath ligule twice as long and ascending; 

 leaflets recurved, pale green on both sides, flat, the 

 clawed rachis one half as long as the frond; infrutescence 

 pendant, arising some distance above the leaf axils, a 

 yard long, the 6 inches long petiole spiny the rachis 

 and alternating fruit bearing branches green; and entirely 

 smooth; nuts ovoidly globose or globose, with a pointed 

 apex, dark green but ochraceous when ripe, less than 

 0.5 inch in diameter, the meat somewhat sweet. 



It differs from Daeinonorops Gaudichaudii Mart, and which 

 it greatly resembles by the elongated very gradually 

 long acuminate leaflets; almost smooth on the upper 

 surface except for the occasional spinule along the midvein 

 near the apex and having only a few bristles on the 

 midrib beneath; by the partial inflorescences and especially 

 by the spikelets not spreading, but inserted at a very 

 acute angle; by the smaller fruit being short and less 

 convex, not tubercled on the raphal side, and in having 

 very narrow although very deep chalazal fovea almost 

 inconspicuous from the outside. 



Daemonorops gracilis Becc. sp. nov. 



Gracillimus, caudice vaginato 12-15 mm. diam.; vaginis 

 spinis patentibus, laminaribus, sparsis vel plus minusque 

 confluentis, in ore valde longioribus et erectis, armatis; 

 frondium segmentis aequidistantibus, majoribus 25-28 cm. 

 longis, 13 mm. latis, superne secus nervos 3 parce spin- 

 ulosis, subtus prope apicem tantutn secus costam mediam 

 setis brevibus praeditis; spadice gracili, fructibus late 

 ovoideo ellipticis, utrinque rotundatis, apice minute aeu- 

 teque mucronatis, 12 mm. longis, 9 mm. crassis, involucro- 



