THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. YI SEPTEMBER, 1911 No. 4 
THE PALMS OF THE ISLAND OF POLILLO . 1 
By 0. Beccari. 
(Florence, Italy.) 
Areca Catechu Linn. var. longicarpa Becc. var. nov. 
Fructibus luteis, elongato-ellipsoideis, 5.5 ad 7 cm longis (una cum 
perianthio) 2.5 ad 3 cm crassis, pericarpio in fere dimidia inferiori parte 
plaeno, semine e basi plana late conoideo, obtuso, 22 mm crasso, 24 mm 
longo. 
Bur. Sci. 101/70 McGregor. 
Areca Ipot Becc. var. polillensis Becc. var. nov. 
A forma typica differt caudice graciliori, 4 m longo, 4 ad 5 cm diam., 
spadicibus brevioribus. Specimina incompleta, fructibus immaturis, 
tantum vidi. An species distincta? 
Bur. Sci. 6938 Robinson, along stream, altitude 25 m; Bur. Sci. 101/63, 101/69 
McGregor. 
Pinanga Barnesii Becc. in Webbia 1 (1905) 320. 
Bur. Sci. 101/66 McGregor, Bur. Sci. 6937 Robinson. 
Arenga saccharifera Labill. 
Bur. Sci. 901/1 Robinson, vernacular name (Tagalog) bunga iig cauang; Bur. 
Sci. 101/68 McGregor. 
'This paper was received just too late for publication with the other articles 
on the phanerogams of Polillo. The Island is situated off the east coast of Luzon, 
almost in the latitude of Manila. The collections here identified were made by 
R. C. McGregor and C. B. Robinson, both of the Bureau of Science, by the latter 
in the month of August, 1909, by the former in the succeeding three months. — Ed. 
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