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again at their apices with their two divisions more or less acute or 
acuminate. Fruit-spadix deflexed, 10—12 cm. long, the peduncular part 
very short with only 3-4 digitate strongly flattened, slightly sinuous 
branches ; bracts subtending the flowers inconspicuous. Flowers 
Fruiting perianth shallowly cupular, 2 mm. high, 4 mm. across, truncate, 
narrower at the mouth than at the base; the sepals and petals similar, 
very closely imbricated, smooth outside, their margins rounded, entire, 
non-ciliate, the sepals somewhat thickened and gibbous at the base. 
Fruits exactly horizontally bifarious, 14-15 on each side of the rachis, 
very regularly but not very closely set, 15-16 mm. long (including the 
perianth), 6 mm. thick, conically acuminate from an ovoid base, suddenly 
broadening when just outside the mouth of the perianth, the base acute 
included; the apex of the fruit is nipple-like and this is surmounted 
by the remains of the stigmas in the shape of a small obtuse mucro. 
Seed ovoid, conic and acute above, 11 mm. long, 5 mm. thick, caudiculate 
at the base ; the branches of the raphe are very few, curved on the 
sides and slightly anastomosing. 
Mindanao, San Ramon, District of Zamboanga, on ridges at an altitude of 
about 600 m. E. B. Copeland, March 5, 1905; also at Camp Keithley, Lake Lanao, 
No. 487, Mary Strong Clemens, April, 1906. 
This is a small species with the habit and size of the Indian Pinanga gracilis, 
readily recognizable by its few acinaeiform and underneath pubescent-seabrid 
leaflets, the spadix with very few digitate branches and the distichous rather 
remote conically ovoid fruits. 
Pinanga Curranii Becc. n. sp. 
Mediocris, subelata, caudice 7 cm. diam. Folia monnihil ampla, 
segmentis numerosis valde inaequalibus, inaequidistantibus attamen non 
congestis, subtu's fugaeiter puberulo-tomentellis, fere reetis, marginibus 
parallelibus, intermediis circiter 70 cm. longis, validissime 1-3-costulatis, 
2-6 cm. latis, basi vix vel non attenuatis, in parte superiori leviter 
curvato-falcatis, apice profunde dentatis, dentibus triangularibus bifidis, 
partitionibus reetis acuminatis; segmentis superioribus brevioribus rec- 
tioribus; terminalibus latioribus pluricostulatis, apice horinzontaliter 
truncatis, breviter obtuseque dentatis. Spadicis ramuli fructiferi 18 
cm. longi, valde~compressi, sinuosi; fructibus horizontalibus exacte bise- 
riatis, ovato-ellipticis, apice obtusissimo, basi parum acutatis, 15 mm. 
longis, 9 mm. latis; semine ovato in vertice rotundato, basi nonnihil 
aeutato, 10 mm . longo, 7 mm. lato. Perianthium fructiferum depresso- 
cupulare, 2 mm. altum, 6 mm. latum, in ore non constrictum, immo 
paullo expansum. 
A species of moderate size, 7 m. high. Stem 6 cm. in diameter. 
Leaves rather large with numerous leaflets; the rachis in the intermediate 
and apical portions triangular in cross section, flat and striate beneath, 
more or less bifacial above, puberulous-f urf uraceous ; the segments very 
