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BECCARI. 
deeply ruminated. Fruiting perianth shallowly cupular, 3.5 mm broad 
and 1.5 mm high, truncate, and slightly narrowed at the mouth. 
Mindoro, Mount Halcon, on forested ridges at 1,100 m altitude, Merrill 5680, 
November, 1906. 
At the request of Mr. Merrill this fine palm is named after Major-General 
Leonard Wood to whom Mr. Merrill was indebted for the opportunity of making 
the ascent of Mount Halcon. 
Related to Pinanga sclerophylla and P. negrosensis, but more especially to 
P. rigida. It is chiefly characterized by its rigid, not very approximate, lanceolate, 
bicostulate, straight leaflets, and by the spadices with 3-seriate fruits; the fruits 
are borne on 3— gonous branehlets, which are inserted all around the main axis. 
NORMANBYA F. Muell. 
Normanbya Merrillii Becc. sp. nov., Plates XXX, XXXI. 
A fine palm with the habit of Areca Catechu but with a shorter and 
thicker stem; this is about 25 cm in diameter at its base, and very closely 
annulate-cicatricose, sometimes not very straight, slightly tapering toward 
the summit. Leaves large, pinnate, about 2 m long, gracefully and 
strongly arched, deciduous at every new production of spadices, these being 
infrafrondales, or springing from below the lowest leaves. Leaf-sheaths 
exactly cylindric, 50 to 55 cm long, and about 15 cm in diameter, 
coriaceous, thinning and truncate at the mouth, strongly striate on both 
surfaces, when dry covered externally with a very thin and minute ashy- 
furfuraceous coating. Petiole short and broad, 10 to 15 cm long, 5 to 
6 cm broad, broadly channelled above, convex beneath, its margins acute. 
Eachis robust, flattened above, narrowly channelled in its basal part and 
with a slight prominent salient angle higher up, beneath with an obtuse 
angle below and flattish toward the end. Leaflets numerous, about 50 
on each side, subequidistant, very closely set at a rather acute angle, 
and slightly overlapping or subimbricate, narrowly lanceolate, broadest 
at about the middle, narrowing thence toward the base — where the 
margins are gradually bent backward — and gradually acuminate to a 
long, straight, or slightly falcate apex, which in the lower and inter- 
mediate leaflets is more or less divided into two linear lacinige; these 
in the upper leaflets become shorter and finally disappear in the few 
leaflets near the top, the apex in these being truncate and denticulate- 
prasmorse ; the leaflets are besides firmly papyraceous, with only a central 
costa; this latter not very stout, almost equally prominent on both sur- 
faces in its basal part, nearly vanishing from the middle upward and 
furnished with a few, very narrow, 5 to 8 mm long, brown, chaffy scales ; 
the margins of the leaflets are conspicuously thickened by a stout nerve, 
even thicker than the midcosta; the secondary nerves are faint on the 
upper surface, which is green, almost shining, and slightly longitudinally 
plicate along some of the nerves; the lower surface is dull and rendered 
more or less distinctly ash-colored by a very thin, adherent, undetachable 
coating; moreover the lower surface is unequally striate by secondary and 
