XIV, 3 Beccari: The Palms of the Philippine Islands 311 
short, acute; uppermost leaflets narrow, straight, their second- 
ary teeth short, acute. Spadix loosely twice branched ; primary 
branches 20 to 30 cm long, bearing few, gradually diminishing, 
floriferous branchlets ; the latter have a naked basal part 
3 to 4 cm in length, then bear three or four alternate 
female flowers and above them the male flowers, which are 
alternately inserted in pairs at every indenture on the rather 
elongate, filiform, zigzag-sinuous upper part of the branchlets. 
Female flowers ovoid, coriaceous, 8 to 10 mm long; corolla very 
slightly longer than the calyx, the petals surpassing the sepals 
solely by their small, apical, valvate, 1.5 mm long, triangular, 
bluntish apices; floral bracts small. Male flowers lanceolate, 
acute or acuminate, 6 to 8 mm long; calyx campanulate, shortly 
and broadly 3-toothed, solid in its lower part and flat at the 
base ; corolla about four times as long as the calyx ; petals per- 
gamentaceous, lanceolate-acuminate; stamens 6, very slightly 
shorter than the petals ; filaments terete, unequal, some of them 
at times as long as their respective anthers, the latter linear, 
slightly sinuous, deeply bipartite at apex and with the cells 
deeply separated at the base; rudimentary ovary inconspicuous, 
papillaeform. Fruits ovoid-ellipsoid, slightly ventricose in the 
middle, equally tapering to both ends, 3 cm long, 13 mm broad, 
boldly longitudinally striate or pluricostulate (when dry), ter- 
minated by a circular areola 3 mm in diameter bearing the 
remains of the stigmas. Pericarp coriaceous, not quite 2 mm 
thick, formed by two layers of relatively very robust and hard 
fibers (the cause of the ribs on the dry fruit). Seeds ovoid- 
oblong, rounded above, deeply ruminated. Fruiting perianth 
campanulate, not accrescent, the apices of the sepals and petals 
unchanged (not marcescent). 
Leyte, Dagami, Bur. Sci. 152S6 Ramos, August, 1912, in forests. 
So far as I can judge from the very fragmentary specimens 
at my disposal, this seems to be a plant of modest dimensions. 
It is especially characterized by its relatively firm leaflets, which 
are very minutely papillose-punctulate on the nerves, especially 
on the lower surface; by its diffusely branched spadix; by the 
relatively large male flowers, having a subpedicelliform, cam- 
panulate, shortly 3-toothed calyx, solid in its lower part; by the 
stamens with relatively long filaments and anthers, which are 
linear and deeply incised at their apices; by the inconspicuous 
rudimentary ovary; by the floriferous branches bearing few 
distant flowers in their basal part and alternate pairs of male 
flowers in their zigzag-sinuous upper parts ; by the campanulate 
