192 ANNALS OF THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, CALCUTTA. [M. salomonense 
OpsERVATIONS.—Referable to the variety majus are also, apparently, some speci. 
mens gathered from plants cultivated in the Island of Guam, procured for me by the 
friendly assistance of Mr. Merrill of the Manila Botanical Establishment ; these 
specimens are exactly identical with those of Panape, except that leaflets, flowers 
and fruit are a little smaller. The leaflets are 8°5 cm. broad. The spikes, covered 
with flower buds but not fully grown, are 15—16 cm. long and measure 20—21 mm. 
in diameter or considerably less than those of variety majus, but more than those with 
full grown buds of variety commune; but in great measure the size of the spikes 
depends on the age of the flowers. One fruit from the same source is also very 
similar to those of variety majus, but is somewhat smaller although considerably 
larger than those of the variety commune; it is also a little higher than broad 
obsoletely 6-costulate, narrows a little in its lower part, has basal gibbosities and 
is 11 em. high and 10°5 cm. in diameter. The pericarp is thicker than in Gibbon’s 
specimens, measuring 1 cm. at the sides and 15 mm. above and at the base. The 
seed is 82 mm. in diameter; the chalazal cavity is 32 mm. in diameter and slightly 
narrows at the mouth; the walls of the albumen are 20—22 mm. thick. The entire 
fruit weighs 280 grammes and the nut alone 185. From the plant growing in 
Guam Mr. Nelson sent to me a sketch representing the fruiting plant, with its 
leaves still standing erect, and the bunches of the heavy fruits hanging among 
them. 
PLatE 112.—Metroxylon amicarum var. majus Becc.—Branch of the spadix with 
spikes bearing fully developed flowers; two separate spikes with flower buds at 
different degrees of development ; an entire leaflet. From Gibbon's No. 1189 in the 
Herbarium at Berlin. i 
Pirate 113.—Metroxylon amiearum  Zecc.— The large fruit (entire) and the fruit 
in vertical section, with the seed zm situ, and also entire, in the upper part of the 
plate, belong to the variety marus (Berlin Herbarium). | 
The fruit cut through the pericarp and the seed is from Guam, and is also con- 
sidered as belonging to variety majus. ‘The three entire fruits in different positions, 
and the seed in vertical section, in the lower part of the plate, are from Leder- 
mann's collection and are referable to variety commune. 
8. METROXYLON SALOMONENSE Becc. in Kechinger Bot. u. Zool. Ergebnisse, 
ete., in Denkschriften der K. Akad. d. Wissensch. Math. Naturw. Klasse, Wien, 
Ixxxix (1913) 60, 61, f. 55. 5e, 5f, bi and p. 62 f 
Calococcus salomonensis.—W arb. in Ber. Deutsch. Bot. Ges. (1896), 141; Schum 
and Lauterb. Fl. Deutsch. Schutzg., 1901 (Nachr.), 606. 
Sagus sp. . . Guppy. The Solomon Islands, 83, 90, 303. 
Description.—A large palm, 20m. and more high (Guppy), apparently non- 
soboliferous, producing a large terminal inflorescence. The fruit is globose, slightly 
depressed, 6 cm. high, 7 cm. in diameter, the apex slightly umbilicate and minutely 
beaked, the base obtuse and not excavate; the walls of the pericarp are 5—6 mm. 
thick at the sides; scales in 27 vertical series, 12 mm. broad in the exposed part, 
somewhat produced into a triangular acuminate apex, glossy, straw-coloured, having 
a narrow intramarginal dark line, and the margins and tips discoloured or greyish, 
