3048 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. vin, Art. 120 



among shrubberies of cogonals near the seacoast. '"Whoy" 

 is the Tagbanua name. 



Calamus Blancoi Kunth in Enum. PL III, 595, 1841. 



Leyte: Palo, Province of Leyte, January 1906, number 

 7282. A widely ramifying and scandent rattan of the 

 forest jungle. Stem one inch in diameter, looping. Leaves 

 opposed by slender barbed recurved 'appendages. Inflo- 

 rescence subterminal, similarly disposed and ending with 

 a clawed appendage. 



Calamus discolor Mart, in Hist. Nat. Palm, in, 212 

 and 341, 1849. 



Field-note for 16871: — A looping climber; stem 0.6 

 inch thick, dull green; the sheathed portion twice as 

 thick, densely covered with yellowish brown needle- like 

 spines varying from 0.5 to 2 inches in length, more in 

 the axial region and along the margins of the shoulders; 

 leaves alternating every 6 or more inches; the 1.5 foot 

 long petiole ascending or divaricate, 0.5 inch wide, com- 

 pressed, brown on the nether side, sharply spiny along the 

 upper side toward the base, the shoulder similarly 

 beset with long needle-like spines; fronds recurved, 3 

 to 5 feet long; leaflets thinly chartaceous, chalky white 

 beneath; hooked ftagellum ascending from the base, arising 

 few inches above the leaf axils, strongly recurved and 

 2 to 3 times as long as the fronds; infrutescence also 

 exceeding the leaves, arising from near the axils, curvingly 

 pendant, the relatively short fruit bearing branches alter- 

 natingly scattered from below the middle, widely scattered; 

 the dull green sheaths spiny, especially so toward the 

 base; ripe nuts less than 0.5 inch long, bluntly ellipsoid 

 or narrower at the base, creamy white. 



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

 August 1916, number 16871. Gathered in jungled woods 

 along a ridge at 2000 feet altitude. Lucban (Mt. Banahao), 

 Province of Tayabas, May 1907, number 9299. Collected 

 in a similar place. 



Calamus filispadix Becc. in Philip. Journ Sci vi 230, 

 1911. * ' 



Field-note for 13949:— A large tree climber and 

 sprawling over their tops; naked canes 0.75 inch thick, 

 terete, dark green, the leaf bearing portion curved rigid, 

 1.5 inch thick; leaves alternating, 8 inches apart, strongly 



