DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES 239 
d’, Segments numerous, 2- or 3-costulate, almost straight, not deeply 
incised at the apex, the divisions 2-toothed, the teeth acute. 
Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, obtuse, smail, 15 by 9 mm. Seed with a 
very oblique embryo fovea. Fruiting perianth shallowly cup- 
ular, with nearly vertical walls, not contracted at the mouth. 
i 8. P. Curranii. 
b°. Segments glabrous underneath. 
c’. Spadix with rather few branches. 
d’. Fruits distichous. Small or medium-sized plants. 
e’. Stem 2 to 5 cm in diameter. Leaf-sheaths densely covered with 
a grayish tomentum. Segments rather numerous, slightly 
sigmoid, acuminate, usually 3-costulate and relatively broad, 
or else narrow and 1-costulate. Spadix with few, scattered 
or subdistichous branches. Fruit narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, 
acuminate, 11 tol4by 5to8mm. Fruiting perianth cupular, 
contracted at the: mouth)... 2.7.22. 28 3 8 9. P. philippinensis. 
e*. Very similar to the preceding. Stem 2 to 4 m high, 2 to 5 cm 
in diameter. Leaf-sheaths covered with appressed rusty 
scales (not tomentose). Segments rather numerous and sub- 
equidistant; usually 1-costulate, slightly faleate acuminate 
or nearly straight. Spadix with a few scattered spreading 
branches. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, 12 to 14 by 7 to 8 mm. 
Fruiting perianth cupular, contracted at the mouth. 
10. P. Elmerii. 
e*. Stem 2 to 3 cm in diameter. Leaf-sheaths sprinkled with dark- 
purple scales. Segments rather numerous, equidistant, 8 to 
9 cm apart on each side of the rachis, 3-costulate, ensiform, 
about 60 cm long, 4 to 4.5 cm wide, paler or subglaucous, and 
not sprinkled with microlepidia underneath, the apices acu- 
minate-caudate and very slightly faleate. Spadix with 14 or 
15 spirally alternate branches. Immature fruits fusiform, 
14 to 15 mm long (ovate-ellipsoid at complete maturity?). 
Fruiting perianth contracted at the mouth..11. P. urdanetana. 
e*. Of medium size (?). Segments lanceolate-ensiform, acuminate, 
unequal, straight, 60 cm long, 3.5 cm wide, their lower surface 
in the dry specimens reddish-brown and densely sprinkled 
with extremely minute, light-colored dots (microlepidia). 
Spadix with strongly flattened branches. Fruit thickly fusi- 
form, equally narrowing to both ends, 15 to 18 mm long, and 
about 1 cm thick. Fruiting perianth very low, contracted at 
rH S\IAT VOT HIN 9 Rete Me ak tte een eae See a a 12. P. samarana. 
e’. Of medium size. Segments very numerous, equidistant, ap- 
proximate, long, narrow, slightly faleate, very acuminate, all 
unicostulate. Spadix with 5 or 6 much flattened branches. 
Fruit relatively large, ovoid-ellipsoid, conical-mammillate at 
the apex, the base narrow and subpedicelliform when dry, 23 
to 32 mm long, 13 to 14 mm thick. Seed ovoid, suddenly 
prolonged at the base into a slender caudiculum; embryo 
fovea broad and slightly oblique; vascular branches of the 
integument simple on the raphal or dorsal side and anas- 
tomosing anticously. Fruiting perianth truncate, not con- 
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