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leaflets are small, narrow and 1- or 2-costnlate, those of the middle are 3 
to 6 cm broad and with 3 to 7 costae, the two of the apex are more or 
less cleft, and acutely toothed on their upper outer margin and are 
united by their bases but rather divaricated, so as to form a deeply forked 
flabellum with a wide reentering angle between them. Spadix very simple 
and consisting of the very flattened axis or rachis, 10 to 14 cm long, more 
or less pedicellate, recurved when in fruit. Male flowers comparatively 
large for the small size of the plant, irregularly angular, 10 to 12 mm 
long ; the calyx very small ; the segments of the corolla falcate, very 
acuminate. Fruiting perianth shallowly cupular or somewhat depressed, 
3 mm broad, 1.5 mm high, broader at the base than at the mouth. The 
scars left by the fallen fruits on the rachis are relatively large, orbicular, 
and flat, with the lower bract small but distinct, rounded in its outline, 
but minutely apiculate in the center, deflexed or ringent. Fruits dis- 
tinctly bifarious, or pectinate, about 6 mm apart and 14 to 18 in number 
on each side, terete with a blunt apex, very slender, often slightly curved, 
13 to 14 mm long, 3 mm thick. 
Luzon, Province of Tayabas, For. Bur. 10155 Curran, March, 1908; Province 
of Rizal, Loher 7055. 
It is one of the smallest and most elegant species known, with unbranched 
spadices-like P. disticha, but with pinnately cleft leaves, resembling those of some 
species of Geonoma. 
Pinanga sclerophylla Becc. sp. nov. 
Mediocris, caudice, ut videtur, circ. 4 cm diam. Folia, eirciter 85 cm 
longa; vagina coriacea 35 cm longa; petiolo nullo; segmentis numerosis 
approximatis, 12-18 mm inter se dissitis, aequidistantibus, subtiliter 
coriaceis, rigidissimis, omnibus rectis (minime falcatis) ; basilaribus et 
intermediis unicostatis, 35—40 cm longis, 16-20 mm latis, longe et sensim 
acuminatis; superioribus sensim minoribus, apice obtusiusculis, interdum 
bicostulatis et apice obscure bidentatis, summis in flabellum profunde 
furcatum unitis. Spadices eirciter 25 cm longi, in ramulos nonnullos 
irregulariter circum axem insertos divisi et parte pedicellari brevi praediti, 
floribus omnibus distincte 3-seriatis; ramulis fructiferis rigidis, crassius- 
culis, 14-17 cm longis, basi eirciter 4 mm crassis, sursum parum atte- 
nuatis, plus minusve trigonis. Fructus triseriati, parvi, late ovati, apice 
minute apiculato-mammillati, basi (in sicco) abruptissime caudiculati, 
13 mm longi, 7.5-8 mm lati, 7-8 mm inter se dissiti; semine late ovato, 
8 mm longo, 6.5 mm lato, utrinque rotundato, raphidis ramis ascenden- 
tibus ad 9, quorum 3 vel 4 centralibus apicenr superantibus, caeteris ad 
latus recurvis, omnibus laxe anastomosantibus. Perianthium fructiferum 
depresse cupular e, 4.5 mm latum, eirciter 2 cm altum, truncatum, in ore 
parum coarctatum. 
A rather slender plant, about 4 m high. The stem, judging by the 
size of the leaf-sheath, may be about 4 cm in diameter. Leaves about 85 
cm long in the pinniferous part; petiole quite obsolete; leaf -sheath 
