Aug. 25, 1919] Palms of the Philippine Islands 3061 



irregularly clustered, extending clear to the base, sub- 

 lucid on both sides, gracefully recurved, similarly pale 

 green on both sides, smooth, tough or not rigid, convex 

 on the nether side; rachis sharply spiny, smooth on the 

 upper side above the middle, the basal portion of a 

 thick smooth shoulder; sheaths green but usually covered 

 with a grayish coat, smooth or sometimes with a few 

 spines along the upper part opposite the leaf; infrutes 

 cence pendulous, arising a few inches above the leaf 

 axils, 4 feet long; its spathels green and provided with 

 a few recurved spines; the branches scattered, 6 to 10 inches 

 apart, only 6 inches long or shorter toward the apex; the 

 fruit bearing branchlets ascendingly curved; fruits pale 

 green, globose or a trifle longer, fully 0.5 inch thick. 

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

 1909, number 11878. Discovered in open light woods or 

 secondary forests of bench lands in the Talon mountain 

 range south of Apo at 3000 feet altitude. This as well 

 as Calamus manillemis (Mart.) Wendl. the Bagobos called "'Lin- 

 tocan." Cabadbaran (Mt. Urdaneta), Province of Agusan, 

 August 1912, number 13542. "Banacbo" in Manobo. 



Calamus vinosus Becc. sp. nov. 



Caudice vaginato 4 4.5 cm. diam.; vaginis in parte 

 basilari nudis, superne spiculis rigidis subpungentibus. 

 ad faucem densioribus, indutis; foliorum segmentis nu- 

 merosis, subequidistantibus, tenuiter pluricostulatis, an- 

 guste, lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, secus nervos in parte 

 apiculis ad margines omnino nudis; cirro validissime 

 eculeato; spadice paniculato. apice breviter, caudiculato; 

 spicis crassiusculis, majoribus 8-10 cm. longis, floribus fem. 

 ad spathellas geminatis, flore neutro interposito addito; 

 fructibus ovoideo-ellipticis; semine lenticulare, albumine 

 homogeneo. 



Scandent. rather robust, the sheathed stem 4 to 4.5 cm. 

 in diameter. Leaf sheaths strongly gibbous above, brown 

 and closely dotted with minute radiating whitish scales, 

 smooth in their lower more or less exposed part, den- 

 sely covered above with scattered rigid or subspiny 

 bristles, the latter becoming very crowded on the margins 

 of the very obliquely cut mouths. Leaves large, about 

 2 m. long in the pinniferous part; petiole short and 

 robust, 3 cm. broad at its strongly flattened base, flat 

 and spiny on its upper surface, convex beneath; the 

 margins bluntish and also armed with short spines, the 

 rachis in its tirst portion is also rounded beneath and 

 has the upper face flat and sprinkled with short erect 



