XIV. 3 Beccari: The Palms of the Philippine Islands 341 
LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA Mart. var. MICROCARPA Becc. 
Livistona, microcarpa Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 2 (1907) Bot. 231. 
Palawan, Caranugan River, For. Bur. 37SU Curran, in river swamps. 
Mindanao, Davao District, a few miles west of Digas at Todaya (Mount 
Apo), Elmer 11967, local name balla. 
LIVISTONA ROTUNDIFOLIA Mart. var. MINDORENSIS Becc. 
Livistona mindorensis Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 4 (1909) Bot. 615. 
Mindoro, Bongabong River, For. Bur. 4108 Merritt, very common, Tagalog 
name panobao. 
4. LIVISTONA ROBINSONIANA Becc. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 6 (1911) 
Bot. 230. 
POLILLO, Bur. Sci. 9265 Robinson, Bur. Sci 10471 McGregor , Tagalog 
pilig. Luzon, Laguna Province, Cavinti, Loher 7056, in Herb. Kew. 
CORYPHA Linnaeus 
CORYPHA ELATA Roxb. FI. Ind. ed. 2, 2 (1832) 176; Griff. Palms Brit. 
Ind. (1845) 112, t. 220 D. 
Corypha Gebanga Bl. Rumphia 2 (1836) 59, t. 97, 98 et 105. 
Livistona Vidalii Becc. in Webbia 1 (1905) 343. 
Corypha umbraculifera (non Linn.) Vidal Sinopsis Atlas (1883) 91, 
t, 93; F.-Vill. Novis. App. (1883) 281, inch var. ciibang and 
sylvestris. 
Luzon, Pangasinan Province (cultivated). For. Bur. 8410 Curran & 
Merritt; Union Province, Naguilian, Bur. Sci. 13000 Fenix: Tayabas Prov- 
ince, Lucban, Elmer 9294: Pampanga Province, Arayat, Garcia 63 (leaf 
from a very young plant, the type of Livistona Vidalii Becc.). Sibuyan, 
Mount Giting-Giting, Elmer 12567. Mindoro, Bongabong River, For. Bur. 
4121 Merritt. Mindanao, Elmer 11965, with the local name serrar. 
This species is the buri palm. Leaf strips from it are used 
in the Philippines for making different sorts of hats ® and other 
valuable commercial materials.^ 
The specimens from Mindoro have floriferous branchlets larger 
than usual, as much as 40 cm in length. 
Corypha elata Roxb. is distinguishable from the allied species 
by the trunk, which in the full-grown plant is very high and 
relatively slender and is marked all around by a slightly de- 
pressed spiral trace of the insertion of the fallen leaves; it is 
also characterized by its pyramidate inflorescence representing 
from one-fourth to one-fifth of the entire plant, and by its 
globular fruit, 20 to 23 mm in diameter, bom on pedicels 3 
to 5 mm long. 
Specimens of Corypha collected on Biliran Island by Mc- 
Gregor in June, 1914, Bur. Sci. 18720, have a secondary branch 
’See Robinson, C. B., Philippine hats in Philip. Journ. Sci. 6 (1911) 
Bot. 106, 113, t. 7, 8. 
* See Farnsworth, C. G., Philip. Bur. Ed. Bull. 54 (1915) 62, 63, plates. 
