VoL l PALMAE 145 



LIVISTONA SARIBAS CLour.) Merr. ex A. Chev. in Bull. Econ. Indochine 

 22 (1919) 501. 

 Corypha saribas Lour. Fl. Cochinch. (1790) 212, ed. Willd. (1793) 



263, excl. syn. Rumph. 

 Livistona cochinchinensis Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 3 (1838) 319; Becc. 

 Malesia 3 (1886) 69, Philip. Journ. Sci. 14 (1919) 340; Becc. & 

 Hook. f. in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 6 (1892) 434, Brown & Merr. in 

 Philip. Bur. Forestry Bull. 18 (1919) 92, t. 35. 

 Livistona speclabilis Griff, in Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist. 5 (1845) 



336, Palms Brit. Ind. (1845) 130, t. 266 C. 

 Livistona inaequisecta Becc. in Philip. Journ. :Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 616. 

 Luzon (Cagayan, Laguna) , F. B. 171U5, 17302, 17156, 10079 Curran, 

 1U762 Darling. In open, somewhat swampy regions at low altitudes, in 

 Cagayan gregarious. Malay Peninsula, Indo-China. 

 Local names; Tarau (Ibn.) ; tikal (Tag.). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Livistona papuana Becc; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 282. 



5. METROXYLON Rottboell 



METROXYLON SAGU Rottb. in Nye Samml. Dansk. Vidensk. Selsk. 

 Skrift. 2 (1783) 527; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 276; Merr. Inter- 

 pret. Herb. Amb. (1917) 112; Brown & Merr. in Philip. Bur. 

 Forestry Bull. 18 (1919) 96, t. 37. 

 Metroxylon rumphii Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 3 (1838) 214, 313, t. 

 102, 159; Naves 1. c; Becc. in Lean. Philip. Bot. 8 (1919) 3026, 

 Phil. Journ. Sci. 14 (1919) 342, Ann. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 12 2 : 

 t. 105 ined. 

 Cebu, Bohol, Siquijor, Mindanao (Agusan, Surigao, Misamis, Zamboanga, 

 Cotabato, Davao), Basilan, Sulu. Abundant in fresh-water swamps at 

 low altitudes, in some places planted. Widely distributed in Malaya. The 

 sago palm. 



Local names: Ambolong «(Mbo.) ; bagsang (Bis.); langdang (Bis.); 

 lumbai (Bis.); lumbia (C. Bis., Bag.); lumbiag (Sul.) ; sagu (Mbo., Bis.). 



EXCLUDED SPECIES 



Metroxylon sylvestre Mart.; Naves Novis. App. (1882) 276. 

 Metroxylon longispinum Mart.; Naves 1. c. 

 Metroxylon filare Mart.; Naves 1. c. 



6. COELOCOCCUS H. Wendland 



COELOCOCCUS AMICARUM (Wendl.) W. F. Wight in Contr. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 9 (1905) 244, t, J+5, U6. 

 Sagus amicarum Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 36 (1878) 115. 

 Coeiococcus carolinensis Dingl. in Bot. Centralbl. 32 (1887) 349. 



Rarely planted, Panay, Mindanao (Zamboanga). Introduced from the 

 Caroline Islands. Polynesian ivory palm. 



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