numerous, ascending; leaves suberect, crowded toward the 
ends, curvingly folded upon the upper much deeper green 
surface, sublueid on both wides, infrutescence ascending; 
$ to 6 inches long, ang@ing benesth the foliage, the spikes 
finbreanched; fruits hath, green, emooth, fusiformiy eLlip- 
void, the apex more tapering to a finer point; the green 
fibrous meat enclosing a large stony fruit which contains 
a flattened seed; “Samulecao;” The nute are relished by 
the Bokobos when they sare rips; Todays, September, 1909, 
13874, Calamus merrillii nenga Beee. n. var. Lofty 
tree climber in jiense jungled woods at 3500 feet or somewhat 
below; on the Talon side of the mountain range; old etem 
S$ inches thick, hard, green, smooth: leaf bearing portion 
5 inches thick; leaves alternate, every foot or so apart, 
divarieate or ascendingly reeurved, 16 feet lone, extended 
inte / as long 2 hooked rachis: petiole about 3 feet 
long, flattened, 2 to 3 inches wide, smooth and yellowish 
en the upper shallowly cencsave surface, spinescent along 
the edges on the sides especially toward the base, convex 
beneath; rachis emooth on both sides exeent the hooks toward 
the distal end, the upper edges wpinescent below the middle: 
leaflets hanging, more or lese on the lower e¢ide 
especially toward the base, bright green on both sides, and 
with seattered setae-like bristles, midnerve conspicuous on 
the upper surfsce, not rigid but quite tough; old infrutes- 
cence ascending from leaf axils, the upper fatfrecurved, 5 
Peet long; the branches ascendinely recurved, alternate, 
& te & inches apart, the ’~ basal ones larger, 211 similar- 
ly vebranched; sheath green, covered with yellowish brown 
and spinescent to 3 inch long 
"Neanga." Todays, Hay, 1909, 
11676. Daemonorops ochrolepis Seac. A medium sized 
tree climber on 2 forested ridge at 3600 feet on the Talon 
side of the mountain range: o14 stem 1 inch thick, dark 
green, smooth, hard; leafy portion 2 1/2 inches thick; Lesves 
8 feet long, extended into half ae long hooked rachis, ascend- 
tuk ingly recurved; petiole 2 or 3 feet long, compressed, 
1 inch wide at the base, densely beset with spifes on both 
sides; leaflets blightiy descending, tips recurved, eub- 
lucid on both sides, quite rigid; sheath dark green, densely 
provided with troenverge or somewhat spirally arranged 
spines which are connected at their bases the intervening 
spines shorter; infrutescence pendulous, axillary; pede 
peduncle proper 11/2 foot long, ite sheath densely covered 
with spines and enclosing the young infruteseence or inf lo-~ 
rescence; fruit bearing portion without spines, the branches 
& to 5 inches apart, alternsting, divaricately rebranched; 
fruite globose or slichtly loneer toward the prominent 
brown tips, shining Light green, nearly 3/4 inch across; 
gap milky; young or fresh spines yellowish brown in appesr- 
ance; ends of steme bluntly terminated; "Seladingan;”" 
Todaya, May, 1909. 

