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straight, and filiform branches, of which the lower are bi- or tri-furcate, 
and the upper simple. The spathes are two; the lowest is 18 cm long, 
flattened, two-edged, with very sharp or narrowly winged margins and a 
narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, marcescent limb, the second spathe is 
tubular, closely sheathing lower down, and marcescent above. Male -flowers 
oblong, 3 mm long; the segments of the corolla deeply striated externally. 
Fruits ovoid-subventrieose, almost symmetrically very suddenly and con- 
spicuously beaked, 10 mm long, 6 mm broad, finely shagreened by nu- 
merous linear sclerosomes. Seed globular-ovoicl, 6 mm long, 5 mm broad. 
Heterospathe negrosensis Becc. sp. nov. 
Gracilis, 3-5 m alta, caudice 6-9 cm cliametro. Folia in parte pin- 
nifera circ-iter 1.2 m longa, petiolo longiusculo (circiter 50 cm longo), 
segmentis aequidistantibus, circiter 3 cm inter se dissitis, ensiformibus, 
acuminatis, prope apicem nonnihil falcatis, intermediis 35-40 cm longis, 
2-2.5 cm latis. Spadix nutans, 70 cm longus (in specimine uno) longe 
pedunculatus, ramulis floriferis teretibus, filiformibus crebre sinuosis, 
13-20 cm longis, vix 2 mm crassis. Fructus anguste ellipsoidei, utrinque 
subaequaliter attenuati, basi acutiusculi, superne fere symmetrice cuspi- 
dati, 10-11 mm longi, 5 mm crassi, extus crebre granuloso-lineolati, 
periantliio late cyathiformi et bracteolis parvis cupulam parvam incom- 
pletam simulantibus suffulti ; semine ovoicleo, basi rotundato, superne 
acuto, 7.5 mm longo, 4 mm crasso. 
This is a more robust plant than E. philippinensis, of which, perhaps, it may 
be considered as the representative form in the Island of Negros. The leaves are 
larger and have larger leaflets, and the spadix is considerably more robust, with 
a peduncular part about 10 mm thick, and about 50 cm in length; the fruit is 
more elongate and very distinctly cuspidate, or acutely beaked, and, consequently, 
the seed is also more distinctly ovoid and rather acute. 
The specimens which I consider as typical, were collected in the Island of 
Negros, by H. N. Whitford (No. 1539) in May, 1906, on Mount Silay, Province 
of Occidental Negros. In the same Island it has also been collected by A. D. E. 
Elmer at Dumaguete, Cuernos Mountains, Province of Negros Oriental, in March, 
1908. Nos. 91/Slf and 1.0 H 7. In Elmer’s specimens the leaflets are smaller and 
the fruits less acuminate than in those represented by Whitford’s material ; con- 
sequently they are nearer than the latter to the true E. philippinensis of Luzon. 
I reproduce here Elmer’s field note of his No. 9 1/3 5 : “Slender erect trees 3 to 5 
meters high; in damp mossy woods at 4,000 feet or more; stems 2 to 3 inches 
thick, obscurely ringed, with soft reddish wood ; leaves 1 to 3 m long ; the lower 
one-third without leaflets, the basal portion of the petioles expanded, the sides 
soon becoming marcescent; inflorescence paniculate, 1 to 3 feet long, upon equally 
long peduncles; flowers small, sessile, cream-white throughout; fruits green, 
becoming yellowish, and ultimately vermilion-red; the fruits are sometimes eaten, 
are not hard but wholly tasteless.” N. V. salaivay. 
Heterospathe cagayanensis Becc. sp. nov. 
Arbor mediocris, circiter 6 m alta. Folia ampla, segmentis aequi- 
distantibns circiter 5 cm inter se dissitis, ensiformibus, acuminatis, prope 
apicem leviter falcatis, intermediis 65 cm longis, 3 cm latis. Spadix 
