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3, and occasionally, 2-4 not very strong costae in the upper surface, the 
secondary nerves very numerous and rather sharp on both surfaces, which 
therefore appear strongly striate; the terminal leaflets are of unequal 
width in the only leaf seen by me and not broader than the others, 
having 3-4 costae, are united only at their bases, and terminate in as many 
pairs of narrow teeth as there are costae; each pair of teeth is separated 
by a sinus 15-20 mm. deep. Male flowers lanceolate, acuminate, 3- 
gonous, more or less asymmetric, 3-3.5 mm. long; the calyx very small 
about 0.5 mm. long, its sepals triangular, acute, sharply keeled; the 
corolla many times longer than the calyx, its petals lanceolate, acuminate, 
strongly striate externally; stamens 6, with short filaments and very 
narrowly sagittate acuminate-apiculate anthers; the rudimentary ovary 
is a little longer than the stamens and is formed by 3 slender subulate 
bodies united only at their basal part. Fruiting perianth 8 mm. high. 
Fruit oblong-elliptical, almost equally narrowed at both ends, 18 mm. 
long, 7 mm. thick, terminating in a sharply defined disciform, orbicular, 
3 mm. in diameter, mammillate surface, the remains of the 3 stigmas 
forming a small obtuse mucro in its center, otherwise the fruit is very 
similar to that of A. mammillata. 
Palawan, No. 3955 Vidal, in Herb. Beccari. 
I have described this species from very fragmentary material consisting of 
an entire leaf, detached male flowers and only one fruit, nevertheless A. Vidaliana 
seems to me to be a very well characterized species on account of its relatively 
large liexandrous male flowers and small elliptical fruit; it is related to A. mam- 
millata from which it differs in the broader 3-costulate leaflets, larger male 
flowers and in the fruit equally tapering to both ends. 
PI NANG A Blume. 
Pinanga insignis Becc. n. sp. 
Major, caudice subelato, 12-15 cm. diam. Folia amplissima; vagina 
cireiter metrali, petiolo subnullo, rachi crassissima, basi 5 cm. spissa 
et in facie superiori profunde sulcata, in parte media supra bifaciali 
et subtus rotundata; segmenta numerosa, aequidistantia, alterna in 
parte media 6-7 cm. inter se remota, late ensiformia, rectissima, rigidule 
papyracea, subtus glabra et secus nervis secundariis minutissime sea- 
bridula, 1-2-costulata, basi aliquantum attenuata, ibique argute 1-2- 
plicata, cireiter 1.2 m. longa, in acumen rectum symmetricum sensira 
attenuata, cuando unicostata apice integra et 4—5 cm. lata, si 2-costata 
apice profunde bifido et 8-9 cm. lata ; segmenta terminalia 3-4-costulata, 
secus costulas inferiores apice profunde fissa, partitionibus rectis acute 
bidentatis. Spadix metralis, fructifer deflexus, parte pedicellari crassa 
brevissima, ramulis numerosis spiraliter insertis, 40-50 cm. longis et 
5-6 mm. latis, basi subtrigonis, caetero compressis. Fructus concinne 
biseriato-pectinati, valde approximati, late ovoido-elliptiei, utrinque 
attenuati, 24-25 mm. longi, 13-14 mm. lati, in summo vertice acutiuscule 
