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is confined to humid forested alpine regions. Between 

 the lagoon at 5000 and the summit of mount Urdaneta 

 at 6000 feet altitude, it is quite common. Every where 

 in the dense jungle undergrowth of the moss laden forests, 

 their stems dangle about like so many coarse wires. 

 They are not very long andusually there are few to several 

 or even numerous from each root cluster, either sprawling in 

 habit or ascending and climbing, and their old sheathless 

 portion is no thicker than ordinary slate pencils. These 

 canes are very flexible and strong, and because of their 

 evenness and small size, are very much sought by the 

 wild people for fine rattan work. 



Calamus maniilensis (Mart.) Wendl. in Kerch. Les 

 Palm. 237, 1878. Daemonorops maniilensis Mart, in Hist Nat 

 Palm, in, 330, 1849. 



Field-note for 11714:— A looping climber; old stem 

 or cane 1 to 2 inches thick, hard, smooth, deep or some- 

 what glaucous green, the leaf bearing portion at least 

 3 inches thick; sheaths dull green, evenly and promis- 

 cuously covered with comparatively short irregularly scat- 

 tered dull brown spines; fronds horizontal, toward their 

 distal ends recurved, 10 feet long, terminated by an equally 

 long clawed and angular flagellum; rachis below the middle 

 smooth beneath and spinescent above, toward the apex 

 smooth above and hooked beneath; oetiole proper 1.5 

 foot long, flattened, 1.5 inches wide at the base; leaflets 

 ascending from the base, soon recurved or descending, 

 tough and similarly dull green on both sides, rather 

 evenly scattered; infrutescence ascending, finally recurved, 

 axillary, 5 feet long, dull deep green and becoming cover- 

 ed in places with a copper brown coating, branched from 

 b-low the middle; spathes spinulous; the branches freely 

 rebranched into 6 inches long curved ultimate fruit bearing 

 spikes; fruits nearly globose, 0.5 in diameter, shining 

 light green except the brown margined scales 



Mindanao: Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao. July 

 and June 1909, numbers 11714 and 10560^. Both numbers 

 were collected in dense oak forests at 4000 feet altitude 

 and where they climb over the tallest of trees The former 

 was called "Sarani" by the Bagobos and the latter "Lin- 

 tocan by the same natives. Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), 

 Tl n ^So° f A^ l u an ' 0cfcober !912, numbers 14011, 14133 



1 i-nm M^ gat j£ red in the forest s between 



3000 and oOOO feet alti ude. The Manobos called the first 



number cited Bunlac", the middle number "Tumarom" 



and the last Bayabong. " 



