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unequal, inequidistant but not in groups, almost straight, with parallel 
margins, glabrous and finely striate by numerous secondary nerves above, 
paler and f ugaceously puberulous-f urf uraceous beneath ; the intermediate 
leaflets about 70 cm. long with 1-3 very robust and in the upper surface 
very sharp costae, 2-6 cm. broad, very slightly or not at all narrowed at 
the base and not at all sigmoid, slightly curved-falcate at the summit, 
where they terminate in as many pairs of teeth (or main teeth) as there 
are costae, each pair being separated by an acute reentering angle, 19-30 
mm. deep; the single teeth are triangular and also cleft at their summit 
into two acuminate straight points; the upper leaflets are shorter and 
straighter than the lower ones, also with their margins exactly parallel 
but with the terminal teeth less acuminate ; the two apical leaflets are the 
broadest, have 7-8 costae, are horizontally truncate at the summit, where 
the main teeth are very short and their divisions very obtuse or rounded 
and convergent. Of the spadix I have seen only a few detached fruit- 
bearing branches; these are 18 cm. long, strongly flattened, carrying- 
on each side 18-20 exactly bifarious fruits; the bract subtending the 
fruit is very narrowly semiannular, deflexed apiculate in the middle. 
Fruiting perianth depressed-cupular, 2 mm. high, 6 mm. across, with 
a flat base and a slightly broadened mouth ; the sepals and petals similar, 
their margins round, ciliolate under a lens; the sepals very faintly 
striate outside, slightly thickened but not gibbous at the base. Fruit 
very regularly ovoid-elliptic, and very obtuse at the summit, 15 mm. 
long, 9 mm. broad. Seed ovoid, with a round top and a more acute base, 
10 mm. long, 7 mm. thick; the branches of the raphe are few and slightly 
anastomosing. 
Palawan, in- the level forest at about 10 m. above sea level. No. 3515, H. M. 
Curran, January 11, 1906. 
This is well characterized amongst the species with biseriate fruits by its 
large size, the straight, very broadly linear leaflets which are puberulous beneath 
and by the small ovoid-elliptical obtuse fruit. In P. speciosa the leaflets are also 
broadly linear and not falcate, but are quite glabrous on both surfaces. 
Pinanga Barnesii var. macrocarpa Becc. n. var. 
Fructibus 27-32 mm. longis, 17 mm. latis, semine ovato-oblongo, 
2 cm. longo. 
The leaves have 7-9 leaflets on each side of the rachis, instead of 
about 15, are broader, with more costae and therefore with more falcate 
divisions at their summit than in the typical specimens. The spadix 
and fruiting perianth are as in the Luzon plant, but the fruit is some- 
what larger than in this (27-32 mm. long, 17 mm. thick), regularly 
ovoid-elliptical, equally tapering at both ends and rather acute and mam- 
millate at the apex. 
Balete, Baco River, No. 275, Mindoro, R. C. McGregor, April 22, 1905. 
Very similar to the typical form from Luzon, but apparently a larger plant 
with the trunk about 2 m. high and 6 cm. in diameter. 
