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BECCARI. 
coriaceous, about 35 cm long ; raehis, in its intermediate portion with a 
very salient angle in the center of its surface, very finely punctulate 
under the lens; leaflets numerous, about 35 on each side, equidistant, 
12 to 18 mm apart, thinly coriaceous and very stiff, dull and of about 
the same color on both surfaces, straight, not at all falcate or sigmoidal; 
those of the base and of the central part are ensiform, unicostate, 35 to 
40 cm long, 16 to 20 mm broad, gradually long-acuminate, somewhat 
narrowed toward the base, which is 7 to 8 mm broad and with the margins 
bent backward; the upper leaflets shorten gradually and become less 
acuminate, occasionally they become bicostate, when this occurs, they are 
obscurely bidentate at the apex; 4 or 5 leaflets of the summit are united 
together and form a deeply forked flabellum; the mid-costa is very 
prominent above, beneath it is slender and bears a few linear scales; the 
secondary and tertiary nerves are rather conspicuous, and give a distinctly 
striate appearance to both surfaces ; the margins are more or less distinctly 
thickened. Spadix about 25 cm long with several branches, irregularly 
inserted around the axis; the peclicellar part is short and flattened; the 
branches when bearing fruit are rigid, rather thick, 14 to 17 cm long, 
4 mm in diameter at the base, slightly lessening upward, more or less 
trigonous, the flowers being distinctly arranged in three longitudinal 
series ; the areolae left by the fallen fruits are very superficial, 7 to 8 mm 
apart on each longitudinal line, bordered by very narrow bracts; of these 
the lower has a round margin and is not apiculate in the middle. Fruits 
small, broadly ovoid, inconspicuously apiculate and mammillate at the 
apex, suddenly caudiculate at the base (when dry) in the portion im- 
mersed in the perianth, 13 mm long, 7.5 to 8 mm broad. Seed broadly 
ovoid, 8 mm long, 6.5 mm broad, rounded at both ends, its basal fove- 
ola, corresponding to the embryo, slightly oblique; the main vascular 
branches of the raphe are 9, ascendent, of these 3 or 4 pass over the top, 
the others bend laterally, and are slightly anastomosed. Fruiting peri- 
anth shallowly cupular, 4.5 mm broad, 2 mm high, truncate, and slightly 
narrowed at the mouth. 
Mindoro, Mount Halcon, For. Bur. J/468 Merritt, June, 1906, altitude about 
1,500 m. 
Pinanga sclerophylla is evidently closely related to P. Woodiana, from which it 
differs chiefly by its very stiff, unicostate, narrower, and much more approximate 
leaflets, by the seed which in general is rounder in shape, and in the raphe having 
more numerous branches. 
Pinanga Woodiana Becc. sp. nov. 
Mediocris, caudice, ut videtur, cireiter 4 cm diametro. Folia circiter 
2 m longa; petiolo . . . . ; segmentis numerosis, concinne aequidistan- 
tibus, utrinque inter se 15 cm dissitis, spisse chartaceis et rigidis, elongato- 
lanceolatis, rectis vel vix ad apicem falcatis; intermediis bicostulatis, 55 
cm longis et in medio 4.5 cm latis, sursum in acumen longiusculum rigi- 
