XIV,* Beccari: The Palms of ithe Philippine Islands 339 
cocos Linnaeus 
COCOS NUCIFERA Linn. Sp. PI. (1763) 1188. 
Cultivated throughout the Philippines both in the coastal 
region and in the interior in those regions where there is no 
prolonged dry season. 
PHOENIX Linnaeus 
PHOENIX HANCEANA Naud. var. PHILIPPINENSIS Becc. in Philip. 
Journ. Sci. 3 (1908) Bot. 339. 
Batan Islands, Sabtan, Bur. Sci. 374i Fenix. 
The collector’s note gives the diameter of the trunk of this 
variety as 45 cm, which he afterwards explained was an error 
for its circumference. 
LICUALA Rumphius 
LICUALA SPINOSA Wurmb in Verb. Bat. Genootsch. 2 (1780) 469. 
Palawan, Merrill 146S , Bur. Sci. 836 Foxworthy, Bur. Sci. 269 Bermejos. 
Balabac, Bur. Sci. 448 Mangubat. CuLiON, Merrill 543 . 
In thickets at low altitudes, in some regions growing in mud 
immediately back of the mangrove swamps. 
LIVISTONA R. Brown 
Conspectus of the species. 
al. Leaves irregularly parted into primary 2- to 6-costulate segments; 
secondary segments l-costulate, very deeply parted into two very long 
flaccid laciniae. Petiole armed, especially in its lower portion, with 
very robust spines. Flowers sessile and in small groups on the 
branchlets. Fruit globose or very slightly reniform, bluish even when 
dry, 11 to 15 mm in diameter 1. L. cochinchinensis. 
a’. Leaves entire in their central part, and with the periphery more or 
less deeply divided into always unicostulate segments. Flowers soli- 
tary, spirally inserted around the branchlets. 
6‘. Flowers relatively large, 4 to 4.5 mm long. Leaves of adult plants 
having unarmed or, at times, slightly spinose petioles. The dry 
mature fruit spherical, 22 to 23 mm in diameter, with a very dark 
brown polished surface. The young fruits are slightly oblong and 
narrow a little toward the base 2. L. Merrillii. 
V. Flowers very small, at most 2 mm in diameter. 
c‘. Petioles of the adult plant spinose in their basal part, unarmed 
elsewhere. Spadix composed of three main inflorescences, free 
from their bases and all issuing from a common flattened spathe; 
upper spathes very tightly sheathing throughout, truncate at the 
mouth, and, as are all the other parts of the spadix, reddish-brown 
when dry. Fruit spherical even when young, dark-violaceous 
when fresh, quite black when dry 3. L. rotundifolia. 
Forma typica (not yet found growing in the Philippines) is 
especially characterized by the seed having the intrusion of the 
raphe penetrating only two-thirds of the albumen. 
