3060 Leaflets of Philippine Botany [Vol. viii, Art. 120 



axils, ascending and then recurved, 3 to 5 feet in length, 

 freely rebranched from near the base, oniy the crest of 

 the spathels beset with a few spines. 



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

 1909, number 11938. Discovered in wooded ravines or 

 gulches at 1000 feet altitude. "Acal" is its Bagobo name. 



Calamus multinervis Becc. in As. Palms, Ann. Koy. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. xi, Suppl. 88, t. 49. 



Field-note for 11791: — A looping climber; the cane 

 or old stem 1 to 1.5 inch thick, dark or olive green, 

 hard, 3 inches across at the sheaths; frond ascending 

 except the distal recurved portion, alternatingly scattered 

 along the upper one half of the stem, 1 foot or more 

 apart, about 6 feet long, terminated by as long a hooked 

 flageilum which droops in a curving manner; leaf sheaths 

 deep or dull green, entirely smooth; leaflets strongly 

 recurved, similarly deep green on both sides, sublucid, 

 tough and papyraceous; petiole proper 6 inches long, 

 compressed, at least 1 inch wide, spinescent along the 

 edges, otherwise smooth; rachis also smooth except 

 the claws along the lower side toward the tip or fla- 

 geilum; inflorescence arising a few inches above the leaf 

 axils, about 5 feet in length, alternatingly rebranched, 

 the peduncle proper 1.5 foot long; branches ascendingly 

 curved as well as the whole inflorescence, the basal ones 

 1.5 foot long, gradually reduced toward the apex; spikes 

 1 to 3 inches long, bearing the flowers or fruits in 2 

 alternating rows; its green spathels with a few hooked 

 spines along the keel. 



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

 and July 1909, numbers 11791 and 11955 respectively. 

 The former number was discovered in moist rich soil of 

 a densely forested flat south of the Baruring river at 

 4000 feet altitude. The Bagobos called it "Ubble." The 

 latter was found under the same ecological conditions, 

 >ut it was called "Balala" by the same natives. 



Calamus megaphyllus Becc. in As. Palms, Ann. Roy. 

 Bot. Gard. Calc. XI, Suppl. 66, t. 35. 



Field note for 11878:— A coarse climber; stem 1.5 

 inches thick at the leaf bearing portion, one half as 

 thick in the smooth cane portion; fronds 1 foot apart, 

 alternate, divaricate or only slightly ascending, recurved 

 toward their tips, 5 feet long, terminated into a stoutly 

 clawed subpendulous rachis equalling the leaves; leaflets 



