12769. Gelamus filiepadix Beec. Smell ¢limber 
in light woods of a fertile elluvial flat slong the 
river at 500 fect; stem 1/2 ineh thiek in the sheath 
eovered portion, slightly thinner and dark green towserd 
the base, very flexible, the leaf bearing portion 1 ajf2 
inch thick; sheaths long persistent end tightly elasping 
the stem, thickened benesth the base of the petiole, 
eastaneue, all densely covered with spines; spines 
bedins, erreanged in transverse rows, much flattened and 
thickened st the base, the longest ones 5 inches in 
Length; fronds elterneting, 6 inches apart, 10 feet 
long, grecefully recurved; petiole and raehte yellowish 
green, the former 8 inghes long, and 3/4 ineh wide, both 
eovered glong the ander side with bediue reeurved epines 
or hooke; leaflets membranous, divericate, slightly 
recurved, flet, flagellee arising a few inches above 
the leaf axils, nearly twice as long es the fronds, 
dangling; infrutescence scattered along the flegellee, 
pendent, the longer or basal clusters 1 yard long, 
varyiug from a foot to a yerd apart; fruite ellipsoid, 
derk green, with ® gOnspicnone brown apex, ealyx slso 
erecen exeept the similarly. colored margins; the infrutescent 
sheaths derk green end apiculate, the exposed internodes 
provided with stout hooks along the nether side; fruiting 
rechies deseendingly reeurved; Puerto Primeesa, Mareh, 1911. 

