XIV, 3 Beccari: The Palms of the Philippine Islands 309 
This is chiefly distinguishable by its simply branched spadix 
having all the female flowers crowded around the main axis 
and by the male flowers being geminate or solitary in alternate 
notches of the slender branchlets, each of which starts from 
the base of a female flower. The ovoid fruit closely resembles 
that of Areca Catechu and the seed also is similar, but in A. Ipot 
the vascular ramifications of the integument of the seed are 
more numerous, more anastomosing, and form a closer network 
than in A. Catechu, and the rumination of the albumen is 
formed by more numerous and straighten lamellae, all converg- 
ing toward the center of the seed. The pericarp entirely dis- 
integrates into soft capillary fibers, except in the innermost 
part for the extent of about a millimeter. 
ARECA IPOT Becc. var. POLILLENSIS Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 6 
(1911) Bot. 229. 
POLILLO, Bur. Sci. 10i63, 10Jf69 McGregor, Bur. Sci. 6938 Robinson, along 
streams at about 25 meters’ elevation (apparently a wild plant). 
This differs from the type in being a smaller plant, with a 
stem about 4 m high and 4 to 5 cm in diameter, and in having 
a shorter spadix. 
6. ARECA CAMARINENSIS Becc. sp. nov. 
Gracilis, caudice circiter 3 cm diametro, internodis longius- 
culis (7 cm longis in specimene suppetenti). Frondium (circiter 
2 m longum) segmenta numerosa, utrinque 8 ad 10, aequidis- 
tantia, alterna vel subopposita, 4 ad 6 cm inter se dissita, 
angusta, elongata, falcato-sigmoidea, 2- vel 3-costulata, costulis 
conspicuis, complanatis, 2 mm elevatis; segmentis inferioribus 
et intermediis acuminatissimis, majoribus 60 ad 75 cm longis, 
2.5 ad 5 cm latis, nonnullis superioribus apice attenuatis et 
falcatis, attamen inciso-dentatis, duobus terminalibus 6- vel 
7-costulatis, brevioribus, circiter 30 cm longis, 4 ad 5 cm latis, 
apice truncatis et duplicato-inciso-dentatis, dentibus brevibus. 
Petiolus longiusculus, subteres. Rachis compressa, in parte 
basilari subtus rotundata, apicem versus compressa et subtus 
plana, superne angulo elevato acuto percursa, marginibus acutis. 
Spadix * * *. Fructus rubri, ovati, 4 ad 5 cm longi, 3 cm 
crassi, utrinque rotundati, areola stigmatiferia plana, minime 
elevata, coi’onati; mesocarpio crasso, fibris tenuibus numero- 
sissimis percurso; endocarpio tenuiter lignoso, intus albescent! 
et laevi; semine conoideo, 2 cm longo, 15 mm diametro, apice 
obtuso, basi truncato, distincte reticulato, lamellis approximatis 
rectis, descendentibus ruminato. 
