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BECCARI. 
Of this fine and large Areca, I have seen only one entire leaf, and a few 
fruits; these latter are even larger than those of A. Catechu; in fact no other 
species of the genus is known with such large fruits. Otherwise it seems related 
to A. Whitfordii. 
Areca mammillata var. m i ndanaoensis Becc. var. nov. 
Differs from the typical forms growing in Palawan, especially by its 
fruits, which are considerably larger. It is a plant about 4 m high. 
Leaves in one specimen 1.4 m long in the pinnifejous part with a petiolar 
part 25 cm in length; the leaf-sheath is 22 cm long. Stem 3 cm in 
diameter. Leaflets about 28 on each side, equidistant, 30 to 35 cm apart, 
1-costate, but occasionally 2-costate, narrowly falcate, the intermediate 
ones 45 to 50 cm long, 18 to 20 mm broad, otherwise as in the type, the 
two terminal leaflets form a small, forked flabellum, are 4- or 5-costulate, 
and terminate with as many pairs of rather obtuse teeth as there are costae, 
these are, however, more acute than in the type. Fruits larger than in 
the type, very narrowly oblong-ellipsoid, diminishing a good deal toward 
both ends, about 3 cm long, 9 mm in diameter. Seed 13 mm long, 6.5 
mm broad. Fruiting perianth 12 mm high. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 91J/1 Whitford <£• 
Hutchinson, in forests at about 20 m above sea level, December, 1907. 
PINANGA Bl. 
Pinanga geonomaeform is Becc. sp. nov. 
Gracillima, sobolifera, 1.5 m alta, caudice tenuiter arundinaceo. Folia 
in circumscriptione oblonga, 25-35 cm longa, 11-12 cm lata, irregulariter 
et interrupte in segmentos paucos, utrinque 1-2, pinnatisecta ; segmentis 
lateralibus e basi lata sensim in acumen faleatum attenuatis ; inferioribus 
angustis, 1- vel 2-costulatis, superioribus 3-7-costulatis et 3-6 cm latis, 
duobus terminalibus in flabellum profunde furcatum unitis et in margine 
exteriore inciso-dentatis. Spadix gracillimus, indivisus, 10-16 cm longus; 
fructibus concinnis, exacte biseriatis, angustissimis, teretibus, saepe cur- 
vulis, 13-14 mm longis, 3 mm crassis, perianthio depresse cupulari, 3 
mm lato, 1.5 mm alto, truncato et ad faucem paullo coarctatum suffultis. 
A very delicate and elegant palm 1 to 1.5 nr high, growing in small 
clusters. Stems very slender, 7 to 10 mm in diameter, very distinctly 
ringed every 3 to 6 cm; internodes slightly clavate, dotted with small 
orbicular tobacco-colored scales. Leaves pinnatisect; the leaf-sheaths 
finely striate and dotted like the stems and with the remains of a deciduous 
membranaceous ligule at their mouths; the petiole slender, 6 to 8 cm 
long, 2.5 to 3 mm thick, this, and the rachis are also dotted with scales; 
the blade is oblong, 25 to 35 cm long, 11 to 12 cm broad, thinly papyra- 
ceous, dull, and about the same color on both surfaces, irregularly and 
interruptedly divided down to the rachis, into a very few, unequal, alter- 
nate or decurrent segments (2 to 4 on each side), which gradually 
narrow from a broad base to a falcate and acuminate point ; the lowest 
