88 SPECIES BLANCOANAE 
large number of Blanco’s species were from Batangas, Laguna, 
and Bataan. The uses indicated by Blanco are those of the 
palm I refer to Arenga tremula. Blanco’s description, more- 
over, certainly applies to Arenga mindorensis Becc.; and not to 
the form Beccari refers to Arenga tremula. The leaflets are 
described as very long, linear, with the apex “hendido en dos 
partes desiguales, 0 en forma de dos arpas.” This description 
applies to some of the leaflets of Arenga mindorensis, but to 
none of the leaflets of Arenga tremula as interpreted by Beccari. 
Moreover in Bataan, Batangas, Laguna, and Tayabas Arenga 
mindorensis=A. tremula is universally known as dumaydca, — 
the native name cited by Blanco, a name that does not appear 
on any of our specimens of Arenga ambong and allied forms. 
Illustrative specimen from Mount Batulao, Batangas Province, 
Luzon, February, 1915, there known as dumaydea (Merrill: 
Species Blancoanae No. 828). 
Caryota onusta Blanco FI. Filip. (1837) 741 (sp. nov.); ed. 2 (1845) 511; 
ed. 3, 3 (1879) 143, t. 419=ARENGA PINNATA (Wurmb) Merr. 
Interpret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 119. (Saguerus pinnatus Wurmb, 
Arenga saccharifera Labill.). 
This palm is found throughout the Philippines at low and 
medium altitudes, growing in the settled areas as well as in the 
primeval forest in some localities. From its interrupted distri- 
bution, and the fact that it is entirely wanting in perhaps most 
of the forests of the Philippines, I consider that the species is 
probably not a native of the Archipelago, but a purposely in- — 
troduced one, and one that has been distributed from island to 
island by the natives. Its occurrence in some regions in the 
primeval forest can probably be accounted for by the fact that 
the fully matured fruits are eaten by wild hogs, which would tend 
to scatter the species in the forested regions. , 
Illustrative specimen from Antipolo, Rizal Province, Luzon, 
January, 1915 (Merrill: Species Blancoanae No. 652). 
ORANIA Zippel 
Caryota palindan Blanco Fl. Filip. ed. 2 (1845) 513 (sp. nov.); ed. 3, 3 
(1879) 145=ORANIA PALINDAN (Blanco) Merr. in Govt. Lab. Publ. 
(Philip.) 27 (1905) 88. 
This species is widely distributed in Luzon, occurring in pri- 
meval forests at medium altitudes. In appearance it much 
_ resembles the common coconut palm. Blanco’s species was er- 
roneously reduced by Naves to Orania regalis Blume, a species - 
that does not extend to the Philippines. Orania philippinensis 
