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Palms of the Philippine Islands 



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gracefully recurved, chartaceous, similarly green on both 

 sides, flat except at the constricted base, spinescent on 

 the margins and along the midvein on both sides; sheaths 

 beset with 1 inch long usually grayish brown spines, 

 those along the margins on the sheath more numerous 

 or dense, suberect, twice as long and flattened; flagellum 

 arising from the side of the leaf, strongly recurved, 

 slender, as long or longer than the fronds, absent from the 

 uppermost leaves, terete, the nether side provided with 

 black claws; infrutescence arising from the sides of the 

 uppermost leaves, at first ascending, finally recurved, a tri- 

 fle shorter than the fronds, branches comparatively short 

 and scattering, its spathes spinescent; fruits 0.33 to 0.5 

 inch in diameter, globose, pale white. 



Mindanao: Tod ay a (Mt. Apo), District of Davao. 

 May 1909, number 11969. Collected in dry jungled woods 

 at 500 feet altitude several miles north of Digos. 



Luzon: Irosin (Mt. Bulusan), Province of Sorsogon, 

 August 1916, number 17052. 



Calamus mollis palawanicus Becc. in Philip. Journ. 

 Sci. ii, 233, 1907. 



Field note: — A scandent and sprawling cane; stems 

 few or several from the same root cluster, near the 

 base 0.33 of an inch thick, 1 inch thick toward the top 

 or leaf bearing portion, terete, greenish brown; leaves 5 

 inches apart on an average, gracefully recurved, alternate, 

 3 feet in length; leaflets descending but slightly, nearly 

 equally green on both sides, somewhat folded upon the 

 nether side, tough; petiole proper 4 inches long, flattened, 

 0.5 inch wide at the base which has a thickened perfectly 

 smooth shoulder; sheath green, smooth or only prickly 

 on certain parts, solidly enclosing the stem, ligule with 

 scattering spines varying from 0.1 to 3 inches in length; 

 rachis angular, with scattering solitary recurved black 

 spines along the lower side; flagellum arising from opposite 

 the leaf and a trifle below it, longer and much more 

 recurved, sharpiy spinescent except toward the base; the 

 inflorescence subterminal, arising similarly as to the 

 flagellum in relation to the leaves; its branches yellowish 

 green, quite rigid, strongly recurved, a foot apart, the 

 spathes green and smoothish, the ligule finely spinescent; 

 flowers creamy yellow even the calyx, fragrant, easily 

 falling. 



Palawan: Brooks Point (Addison Peak), Province of 

 Palawan, March 1911, number 12607. In dry compact soil 



