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BECCARI. 
cirrus, and about 80 cm long in the pinniferous part, the petiole about 
10 mm broad and 12 cm long (in one specimen), quite flat above, and 
here sprinkled with small and straight erect spines, convex, and smooth 
beneath, its margins acute and sparingly prickly, rachis flattish beneath, 
where only toward the summit it is armed with semiverticillate claws, 
the lower surface cpiite smooth, the upper surface of rachis prickly near 
the base but otherwise smooth and with a not very acute salient angle; 
the cirrus is strongly armed with f-verticilled claws. Leaflets not very 
numerous, equidistant, rather remotely set (4 to 5 cm apart on each side) ; 
elliptic-lanceolate, broadest about their middle, and equally narrowing 
to both ends; gradually acuminate to an inconspicuously bristly tip, the 
base acute, rigicl-papyraceous, green on both surfaces, but paler beneath 
than above, 3- or 5-costulate; the costte very sharp above, smooth on 
both surfaces with the exception of 1 or 2 spinules, which are occasionally 
to be found at the base of the mid-costa on the upper surface; transverse 
veinlets minute, much interrupted, not very prominent, margins minutely 
spinulous near the apex, otherwise smooth. The intermediate leaflets 
are 22 to 25 cm long, 30 to 32 mm broad, the others somewhat smaller, 
but of the same form. Male spadix Female spadix apparently 
not very elongate, terminated by a short, tail-like appendix; primary 
spathes thinly coriaceous, those of the apical portion of the spadix (the 
others not seen by me) flattened, tubular in their lower part, enlarged 
above and open on the ventral side, terminated by a triangular, acuminate, 
acutely keeled point, the keel spinous ; secondary spathes infundibuliform, 
rather loosely sheathing, unarmed, obliquely truncate and ciliolate at the 
mouth, produced at one side into a short deltoid point; spikelets short, 
2 to 3 cm long, scorpioid, rather thick, with very few (4 or 5 in all) 
alternate flowers; the spikelets of the lower part of the partial inflores- 
cences probably longer and with a few more flowers. Spathels infundi- 
buliform, obliquely truncate, very shortly produced into a rather broad 
triangular point at one side, obscurely dorsally keeled; involucrophore 
obliquely attached to the base of the spathel above its own, shallowly 
cupular, bidentate on the posticous or axial side; involucre shallowly 
cupular, with an irregular, undulate margin ; areola of the neuter flower 
depressedly lunate, sharply bordered. Fruit broadly ovoid-elliptic, about 
25 mm long, 18 mm broad, very suddenly and conspicuously beaked, 
scales arranged in 12 longitudinal series, relatively thick, strongly convex, 
deeply channelled along the middle, of a straw-yellow color, with a very 
narrow blackish marginal line, the point also blackish and very slightly 
produced. Seed globular, but not exactly spherical, about 11 mm in 
diameter, rather regularly and minutely foveolate all around, without 
a distinct chalazal fovea; albumen very deeply ruminated. 
Mindoro, Mount Halcon, For. Bur. Jf.'iOO Merritt, June, 1906, altitude about 
1,500 m. Named in honor of Lieut. T. EL Jennings who accompanied Mr. Merritt 
on his trip to Mount Halcon. 
