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corolla is twice as long as the calyx, its divisions deltoid and thicldsh; 
the stamina! ureeolum is 6-lobed, the lobes broader than high, with a 
very short subulate filament in the center of their retuse upper margins ; 
anthers, after dehiscence, orbicular ; carpels glabrous, the style very 
short. Fruits globular, 14 to 15 mm in diameter, when quite mature 
polished and of a bluish color externally ; the mesocarp very scanty ; 
the endocarp woody, very thin, brittle. Seed globular, but not a true 
sphere, 1 1 mm broad, the intrusion of the raphe cylindraceous, pene- 
trating almost to the center of the albumen. Fruiting perianth forming 
a pediculus to the fruit, very small and short, not quite 2 mm broad. 
Luzon, Province of Laguna, Santa Maria Mavitac, For. Bur. 10070 Curran, 
February, 1908, n. v. ticol; Cavinti, Loher 7058, February, 1906, (Herb. Kew. ). 
Among the Philippine species of Livistona this is easily distinguishable by its 
leaves being unequally parted into several primary 2- or 3-costulate divisions, 
having the ultimate divisions very long, very gradually acuminate, and more or 
less flaccid, and by its round fruit. It is however very closely related to L. 
cochinchinensis, which has also leaves with 2- or 4-costulate primary divisions; 
but L. inaequisecta lias smaller flowers and these have the sepals callous and 
thick only at their base and in the greatest peripheric part are very thin and 
pellucid, or hyaline. The fruits also are apparently smaller, at least the few 
that I have seen. 
ZALACCA Pveinw. 
Zalacca Clemensiana Becc. sp. nov. 
Folia ampla, petiolo spinis longis armato, segmentis interrupte fasci- 
culatis, elongato-lanceolatis, supra viridibus," nitentibus et albicantibus ; 
intermediis fere rectis et non longe acuminatis, 45 cm longis, 6-6:5 cm 
latis; superioribus apicem versus leviter falcatis et abrupte in acumen 
subulatum coarctatis, basi tantum 3-costulatis, caetero unicostatis, costulis 
lateralibus superne evanescentibus. Spadix masculus ut videtur brevis, 
in ramos nonnullos approximates divisus; rarnis 6-8 spicas approximatas 
ferentibus; spathis primariis extus ferrugineo-tomentosis, marcescentibus 
et dilacerato-fissis ; spic-is nrasculis, dum florentibus, cylindraceis, gra- 
cilibus, 5-7 cm longis, 10-11 mm crassis, spathellis distinctis, non in 
annulum connatis, bracteiformibus, late concavis, acutis, striatis ; brac- 
teolis parvis, lanoso-ramentaceis. Flores masculi spathellas paullo super- 
antes, 4 mm longi; calyee fere usque ad basin 3-partito, phyllis line- 
aribus subhyalinis; corolla calyce paullo longiori, basi attenuata, fere 
usque ad medium 3-partita, segmentis oblongis. 
Leaves very large, covered with long spines in the petiolar part; rachis 
in the intermediate portion acutely trigonous, with a line of long spines 
beneath along the center. Leaflets interruptedly fasciculate, elongate- 
lanceolate, rigidly papyraceous, shining above, having a very tenuous and 
adherent ashy-colored coating beneath; the intermediate leaflets almost 
straight, about 45 cm long, 6 to 6.5 cm broad; those near the summit, 
and apparently also those near the base, slightly falcate towards the 
