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with a large, central, undivided part, the primary sinuses remaining at 
about 80 cm from the apex of the petiole, while at the sides they are 
only a few centimeters from it; petiole (in one specimen) with quite 
smooth margins from the base throughout; segments papyraceous, rather 
brittle, when dry subshining above, slightly paler beneath; transverse 
veinlets fine and rather sharp ; in the leaves of not quite full-grown plants 
the segments are very deeply bifid and the divisions are elongate, very 
acuminate, but not hanging; the central segments of the leaves of the 
adult plant are at their point of separation 4.5 cm broad, and diminish 
from this point very gradually toward the end, which is deeply bifid, 
the divisions being about 15 to 20 cm long, and apparently not, or only 
slightly, hanging. Spadices very elongate, triple, or composed of 3, equal, 
collateral spadices which are quite free from the base and protrude from 
the same basal spathe ; the sheath is coriaceous, brittle, of a reddish-brown 
color, like all the other parts of the spadix, glabrous and shining, strongly 
flattened, 9 cm broad, with two almost winged edges ; the partial spadices 
are rigid, straight with several rather distant partial inflorescences, and 
with the undivided axial parts terete, as thick as a finger, tightly sheathed 
by tubular spathes, which are quite glabrous, briefly open, expanded at 
the apex, and terminating with an auriculiform, rather obtuse, or at 
times shortly bidentate limb. Partial inflorescences divided from near 
the base into two main branches, these bearing numerous simple floriferous 
branchlets, of which the lowest are 7 to 8 cm long and the others gradually 
shorter. The fruit is spherical, 13 to 14 mm in diameter, when not quite 
mature. 
In the forests, a few metres' above the level of the sea, Bongabong River, 
Mindoro, For. Bur. J/108 Merritt , May, 1900. 
It is clearly allied to Livistona rotundifolia and L. microcarpa, but is distin- 
guished from both by the central segments deeply bifid and with the divisions 
elongated and gradually acuminate. Moreover I do not know of any other species 
of Livistona with three distinct, equal, collateral spadices issuing from the same 
basal spathe; but then it is not certain whether or not this is accidental, or is 
a constant characteristic of L. mtndorensis. The three flowering axes or partial 
spadices are very similar in their dimensions, branching, color, and spathes to the 
corresponding parts of the above-mentioned species, the fruits of L. mindorensis, 
however, are apparently larger than those of L. microcarpa, and smaller than 
those of L. rotundifolia. 
Livistona inaequisecta Beec. sp. nov. 
Robusta; frondium petiolo in parte basilari crebre spinis robustis, plus 
minusve reversis, 10-15 mm longis armato, superne submenu! ; limbo 
arnplo, inaequaliter prof unde duplicato-partito, segmentis majoribus 2- vel 
3-costulatis, profunde 2- vel 3-partitis, laciniis elongatis, acuminatissimis 
et apice flaecidis. Spadix elongatus, in 7 vel 8 inflorescentias partiales 
divisus, spathis primariis subtiliter coriaceis, basi tubulosis, superne antice 
fissis et apice lanceolato-auriculatis, ad margines fibrosis; inflorescentiis 
partialibus arcuatis, arnplis, duplicato-ramosis, ramulis fructiferis fere- 
