3046 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



"Vol. vin, Art. 120 



slightly darker line, the extreme margins scarious and 

 finely erose toothed, the tips obtuse. Seed regularly and 

 globosely oblong, equally rounded at both ends, 8 mm. 

 long, 6 mm. in diameter, very slightly compressed, finely 

 pitted; the chalazal fovea small, placed in the center of 

 the raphal side, albumen ruminate; embryo exactly basal. 



Palawan: Puerto Princesa (Mt. Pulgar), Province 

 of Palawan, April 1911, number 12945. 



Field-note: — A rather fine sprawling or subscandent 

 climber; old stem 0.55 inch thick at the most, even 

 thinner near the root, every flexible, terete, greenish on 

 the exposed portions, otherwise yellowish, the leaf bearing 

 part 1 inch through; sheaths densely covered with 

 dull brown flattened spines 1 inch in length, otherwise 

 greenish, subpersistent; leaves ascending and recurved, 

 alternating every 5 to 8 inches, 5 feet long and terminating 

 into a dangling 2 feet long clawed rachis; petiole 8 inches 

 long, yellowish green, subcompressed, spiny, its base 

 thickened and also spinescent especially along the margins 

 whose spines are more numerous and twice as long; 

 infrutescence subaxillary, recurved upon the short pe- 

 duncle, all the stalks smooth and green, 1 foot long, 

 finely branched, only the flattened peduncle spiny; fruits 

 dark green, less ellipsoid, shorter than 0.5 inch in length. 



Very closely related to Daemonorops Hystrix Mart, of 

 which it represents perhaps only a geographical form. 

 It is a much smaller plant and is characterized by the 

 three leaflet nerves being bristly on the upper side and 

 along the raidvein beneath. In Daemonowps Hystrix Mart, the 

 leaflets have 3 to 5 nerves, all covered beneath with 

 an almost uninterrupted line of very approximate small 

 bristles. It differs also in its fruits having the scales 

 in 15 vertical series, and in being rather deeply and neatly 

 grooved along the center. 



CALAMUS Linn. 



Calamus mollis Blco. PI. Filip. 264, 1837. 



Field-note for 11969;— A relatively small rattan; old 

 stem greenish brown, less than 0.5 inch thick, the greater 

 length covered at least with dry persistent sheaths, leafy 

 portion 0.75 inch thick, dark green; leaves alternating, 10 

 inches apart, horizontal, recurved toward the tip, 5 to 8 feet 

 long; petiole 6 inches long, compressed, less than 0.5 

 inch wide, spinescent along the edges and especially 

 beneath; rachis triangular from below the middle provided 

 with sharp recurved hooks or claws underneath; leaflets 



