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Beccari: The Palms of the Philippine Islands 
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HETEROSPATHE Scheffer 
Conspectus of the species. 
at. Large trees. 
P. A tree 8 to 10 m high. Leaflets with strong secondary nerves, the 
midrib without paleolae underneath. Spadix three times branched, 
floriferous branches slender. Fruit globular, 7 to 7.5 mm in diam- 
eter, excentrically apiculate, the surface granulose from short 
scattered sclerosomes. Seed spherical 1. H. elata. 
b\ A tree as much as 9 m high, 12 cm in diameter. Leaflets having 
rather distinct secondary nerves, and the midrib furnished under- 
neath with conspicuous brown paleolae. Spadix three times 
branched; floriferous branches thickish (2.5 mm thick). Fruit 
ovoid, 1 cm long, 7 mm thick, having the point conical and slightly 
oblique and the surface shagreened by linear sclerosomes. Seed 
globose-ovoid, blunt 2. H. sibuyanensis. 
a*. Shrubs or small trees. 
P. Stem slender, 1 to 3 m high, 2 to 3 cm in diameter. The largest 
leaflets 25 to 30 cm long, 10 to 15 mm broad, secondary nerves faint. 
Spadix twice branched in its basal part, simply branched above. 
Fruit ovoid, 10 to 11 mm long, 6 mm thick, very suddenly, and 
nearly centrally, apiculate, the surface closely shagreened by con- 
spicuous, shortly fusiform sclerosomes. Seed globose-ovoid, blunt. 
3. H. philippinensis. 
P. More robust than the preceding, 3 to 5 m high. Stem 4 to 5 cm 
in diameter. Leaflets 35 to 40 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm wide, the 
secondary nerves rather distinct. Spadix twice branched. Fruit 
ovoid-ellipsoid, narrowing above to a conical, nearly symmetrical 
point, 9 to 11 mm long, 5 mm thick. Seed ovoid, acute. 
4. H. negrosensis. 
1. HETEROSPATHE ELATA Scheff. in Ann. Jard. Bot. Buitenz. 1 (1876) 
141, 162; Becc. in Webbia 1 (1905) 328; Farnsworth Philip. Bur. 
Ed. Bull. 54 (1915) 66, 67, plate. 
Luzon, Tayabas Province, For. Bur. 10352 Curran: Camarines Province, 
For. Bur. 10481 Curran: Cagayan Province, For. Bur. 17064 Curran: La- 
guna Province, Mount Maquiling, For. Bur. 19749 Villamil. Cebu, Piper 4- 
Mindanao, Zamboanga District, For. Bur. 9030 Whitford & Hutchinson: 
Davao District, Todaya, Elmer 11968. MindorO, Bongabong River, Whitford 
1395. Local names: Saguisi, sagise, seguise, niog-niogan, tagisi, balaniug, 
salaniog. 
2. HETEROSPATHE SIBUYANENSIS Becc. in Leaf!. Philip. Bot. MS. 
Sibuyan, Mount Giting-Giting, at about 230 meters’ elevation, Elmer 
12350, local name bilis. » 
This is the representative of Heterospathe elata in Sibuyan. 
It differs from H. elata in the leaflets being furnished with con- 
spicuous paleolae on the lower surface ; in the fruit being ovoid, 
with an obliquely conical upper part; and in the seed being 
slightly longer than broad (not spherical). 
