13926, tslempe merrillii Beee, Coarse lofty tree 
@limber in fertile moist soil of weeced flete among the hemp 
fields aleng the Minueueng river et 500 feet altitude; old 
stem rigid, 1 1/2 ineh thick at least, dull green whore not 
eovered by o]4 shentha; the leef bearing pertion 3 1/2 inohes 
thiek; sheaths subglaugeus green or dull green, densely covered 
with dense flettened spines 1/2 to 1 1/2 inchs long; petiole — 
2 feet long, 2 inches wide, spiny along the sides, troughed 
aleng the upper 6i6¢, smooth henesth a6 is alee the enlarged 
plete; rachie heecoming anguler above and heoked beneath, ex- 
tended inte a 71/8 feet leng hooked dengling extension; fronds 
avereging 1 foot apart, alternate, about 15 feet leng; seg- 
monte dark green on both sides, subcharteceus, the 3 nerves 
vidged sbove, with setose hairs, greduallyrecurved; infrutes< 
eenee axillary, 1 te 2 verte lone, sliternatingly branehed from 
the bese, strongly reeurved, the reehie covered with spiny 
sheaths; the fruit bearing seguents alee etrongly reeurved; 
the fraite subglobese, less than 1/8 ingh across, pale green 
exeept the grayieh apical point; “Yslasen” in Manohe, this 
ie the palm leaf speeies used by the natives for roofing their 
howwes; Gsbadbaran, August, 1912s 
13926, Yetunze longifclie B0, Erect @mell tree in rich 
soil of open woods among the hemp fields @long the trail to 
wogobee at 660 feet; aten terate but ercoked, 10 inches thick, 
a0 feet high, branched from shove the middle; weed accerately 
soit, #ubtumeans in color, oferless and testelesa; bark thiez, 
deeply checked on the arayieah white surtece longitudinally, 
eaetaneus etherwise; main branches aseending, repeatedly branched; 
the branchicts merous all along, Slender, sreen, flexible spread« 
ing and deseending oy drooping, wnbrenehed; leaves deseending, 
thinly oorlececus, conduplicate and tips twixtingly reeurved, 
nergine conspieneusly wery, price green benesth; intloreseent 
epikes exilleary, erect and uéually curved towerd the apex, flex« 
ible, rachie green, the seeending flewere odorlese and also green 
except the whitieh corolla; “Anislag" in Manobeo, VUabsdbaran, 
September, L912. 
LB9615 Polyalthia urdanetoc®i16 ims ne OP, Ball elender 
and ereet tree in e densely wooded ridcze of well drained humus 
sovored Bcil of. iurom peak at S600 fect; stem terete, 5 inchs 
thisk, 20 feet high, strsisht, tbranehed from shove the midc 
woodfather soft, dingy white, odorless and without taste; 
Smooth and mottled, latericiue otherwise; branches seattered, 
divericate, rebranghed; lax twige mainly horizontal; leaves 
Similarly spreading or descending, S@ubchartaceous or subcoriea- 
seous, flat or only the margineal aije elisntly eurved upon the 
lower paler green surface, spex Strongly recurved; flowers rigid, 
eramens, edovlens, hancing upomblenter green stalks; fruite 
1/2 inch long, purpléeh brown on the exposed side so 18 also 
the Slender pedicel, ellipeoidy; “vayitieiti*" or "Galtioiti" 
iq Manobe; Cabadberan, September, 1912. 

