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of the fruit being slightly asymmetric, the divisions of the perianth are 
unequally dellexed; otherwise the fruiting perianth is not accrescent, and 
the segments of the corolla are deltoid, rather blunt and thickish. 
Mindoro, Bongabong River, For. Bur. J/120 Merritt, May, 1906. N. v. banga. 
Mindanao, District of Zamboanga, Port Banga, For. Bur. 9179 Whit forcl & 
Hutchinson, January, 1908. The fruits of the specimens from this last locality 
are however slightly smaller than those of the typical form from Mindoro; they 
are 37 mm long and 31 to 32 mm thick, and have a thinner mesocarp with the 
woody fibers less distinctly normal to the surface of the endocarp. Evidently 
this is a local form, which may be distinguished by the name mindanaoensis. 
The fruits of Orania decipiens are about the size of those of 0. macrocladus, 
and by a superficial observation they might be mistaken for these; they are 
however slightly larger and are not, like those of 0 . macrocladus, perfectly 
spherical, but are slightly diminished toward the base; they also differ from 
those of 0 . macrocladus by the thicker mesocarp, full of the peculiar kind of 
bony fibers erect on the surface of the mesocarp, and interposed between it and the 
epicarp, which are characteristic of 0. regalis, 0. philippinensis etc.; in 0. 
macrocladus this kind of fiber is wanting; moreover the position of the embryo 
differs in the two species, it being placed below the middle of the seed in 0. 
macrocladus and not very far from its summit in 0 . decipiens. 
LIVISTONA R. Brown. 
Livistona Whitfordii Becc. in Martelli’s Webbia 1 (1905) 341. 
To this species I refer For. Bur. 5876 Curran, collected to the north of Aglao, 
Province of Zambales, Luzon, January, 1907. The height of the plant is said to 
be 25 m with the trunk 40 cm in diameter. The fruit (which I have not seen) 
is 2 cm in diameter. Native name telcis (Curran). 
I have described - the petiole of this spiecies as quite smooth, but in the specimen 
mentioned above, it is armed in its lowest part with rather robust recurved 
spines, but in the remaining part only with scattered rudimentary tuberculiform 
spinules, of which some are nearer its apex. 
Livistona mindorensis Becc. sp. nov. 
Elata, caucliee ad 28 m longo, 20 cm diametro. Frondes regulariter 
multifidae ; petiolo inermi ; segmentis in parte centrali alte unitis, externe 
fere usque ad basin separatis, chartaceis, superne nitidiusculis, subtus 
paullo pallidioribus, profunde bipartitis, sive in lacinias duas longe acu- 
minatas, attamen non flaccidas, divisis. Spadices elongati in quovis spatha 
terni, sive jam ab ima basi in 3 spadices partiales, aequales, collaterales, 
ex apice spatliae primariae unieae, valde eompressae, erumpentes, divisi. 
Quisque spadix partialis rigidus, rectus, digiti crassitie, teres, spathis 
tubulosis apice breviter apertis, arete vaginatus; inflorescentiis partialibus 
20-25 cm longis, jam a basi bipartitis, caetero simpliciter ramosis, ramulis 
fructiferis majoribus 7-8 cm longis. Fructus parvi, sphaerici, 13-14 mm 
diametro (non plane maturi). 
A slender and tall tree, the trunk rising to 28 m in height and being 
20 cm in diameter (Merritt). Leaves orbicular, regularly multifid and 
2 Webbia loc. cit. 
