3054 



Leaflets of Philippine Botany 



[Vol. viii, Art. 120 



largest spathe with a few spines along the edges or 

 keels; flowers yellowish green. 



Mindanao: Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Da vao, May 

 1909, number 11886. Collected on a dry forested ridge 

 at 3500 feet altitude on the southern or Talon side of 

 the mount Apo range. The Bagobo name is "Sarani." 



Calamus ornatus philippinensis Becc. in Webbia I, 

 346, 1908. 



Field-note for 11236:— A stout climber; stems few 

 clustered, the leafy portion 3 to 5 inches thick, its canes 

 less than one half as thick; coarse leaves 10 feet in 

 length, horizontal and recurved, alternatingly scattered 

 every foot; leaflets similarly disposed; the hooked rachis 

 leaf opposed, 20 feet long, flattened and 0.75 inch wide 

 at the base and covered along the lower or clawed side 

 with a dense grayish brown bloom; leaf stalk or petiole 

 ascending, 2 feet long, nearly 2 inches wide at the base, 

 similar in shape and indumentum beneath as that of 

 the dangling flagellum, smooth, at the base hard and 

 with a much thickened shoulder; sheath tightly enclosing 

 the stem, dark green, but covered with the same sort 

 of a coating, beset with 1 inch long much flattened spines 

 which are divaricate and arranged in tranverse rows; 

 infrutescence at first ascending, finally recurved, its 2 

 or 3 fruited clusters 3 to 5 feet apart, the green spathels 

 spinescent below, the rachis extended into a slender 

 much recurved spiny tip; the whole fruiting cluster 

 strongly recurved, its branches green and smooth, 1 to 

 2 feet long, the branchlets 1 to 3 inches long, ascend- 

 dingly curved along the upper side; nuts 0.75 inch long, 

 ellipsoid, the prominent apex nearly black as are also 

 the tips of the greenish finally yellow scales. 



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

 1909, number 11236. In dry woods at 1500 feet altitude. 

 Its native or Bagobo name is "Tubo." 



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

 December 1915 and September 1916, numbers 15607 and 

 16886 respectively. Lucban (Mt. Banahao), Province of 

 Tayabas, May 1907, number 7625. 



This is quite common in the woods and forests about 

 Irosin, and is called "Calape" by the Bicolanes. The 

 natives in other parts of Luzon also call it by that 

 same name, ( and in central Samar there is a town by 

 the name "Calape". Its deep cream colored fruits when 

 ripe are juicy and vinegar sour. The natives of Sorso- 

 gon province are very fond of it, and in the fruiting 



