riiiLiri'iM-: spkcies of 1'am)a.\i\s. 61) 
involucratus (in specimine suppeteiiti spathae delap^ae ^^unt) ; podun- 
culus siibgracilis, 5 cm longtis, 7 mm erassTis, trigones; synrarpia ad 4, 
conferta, ovata, 4 cm longa, 3 cm diam. Driipae iiumoiosae, confertae, 
parvae^ 12 mm longae, 5-7 mm latae, pentagonae vel liexagoiiac, basi 
angustato-cuneatae, apicc liboro, rotundato anguloso, vertice aroolato, 
subconcavo; stigmate eccentrico, subplann^ sessili, elongate, 5 mm longo, 
subrotundato-bilobo; endocarpio osseo, G mm longo, cuneato; mesocarpio 
supero, ejus caverna 1 mm alta. 
MiXDANAO, District of Davao, Davao, Copchtnd -iSG, March, 1904 (in Herb. 
Bur. Sci.) . 
(19) Pandanus brevispathus Murtolli sp. iiov. 
Arbor 3 m alta, corona foliorum apicali omata. Folia binictralia, 
4 cm lata, ba.^i dilatata amplexicaulia, apice sensim attonnato-ai'uminata, 
in pagina inferiori glauca et miniitissimo longitudinalitcr vcnuloso- 
striata; supra plicata, plicis latcralibus apiceni versus irregularitor 
parceque aculeatis; marginibus crebre et validiuscule serrato-dontatis ; 
costa media e basi usque ad medium subtilissima, inormi, dein prominula, 
angusta, acuta, apicem versus crebre et acute sernilata. Syucarpii 
pedunculus brevis, G-7 cm longus, trigonus, 1 cm crassus, spatliis 
numerosis, coriaceis, arete involucratus. Spathae inferiores brevissimae, 
ti-iangulari-lanceolato-acuminatao, basi late amplectentes, cyudiaeformes, 
caeterae sensim majores, e quibus intermediae elongato-lanceolalac syn- 
carpium subaequantes, plus minus acute carinatae, marginibus et carina, 
apicem versus tantum, serratis; spathae suporiores syncarpium invohi- 
crantes, 4 cm latae, sulKoriaceae, ovatoelongat^e, apice rotundatae, 
ac*utiu?culae, carina et marginibus creberrime ciliato-serrato-dentatis. 
Syncarpium ovato-glol>osuni, 3-4.5 cm diam.; drupue numcropae, con- 
fertae, polygouae, ba^si anguste cuneatae, 15 mm longae, 4-5 mm latae, 
apicc libero pyrami.dato-rotundato, in summo vertice concavae, areolatae, 
gibbosulae; stigmate snbeccentrit-o. piano, sessili, 2 mm lato, subm- 
tnndato-bilobo. Endocarpium osscum, ' nnn longuin, mo?ocarpium 
superum, ejus lacuna 3 mm longa. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Davao, Copeland 'f.'t2, March, 1904, in jungles 
in the Barrinfftonki formation. 
A species of the section Bn,antia, very tlifferent from Pandanus Jalcralin, from 
which it is easily distinguishable by its solitary syncarp and by the shape of 
the spathes. Pandanus hrcvispafliiis is closely related to a species collected by 
Dr. Beccari at Kandari in Celebes, which Count Solms-Lauhach in Ann. .Tard. 
Bot. ELiitoiizorg 3 (1883) 90, has referred to Pandanus Kurzianus Solms, 
although in my opinion not correctly. 
Copeland's specimen, on which 1 have founded this species was idenlified by 
Mr. Merrill as Pandanvs pohjrephahis Lam., from which it seems to me tu W' 
<iuite distinct. The gro'up of Pandanu.<i pohjrrphahts Uni. embraces several 
distinct si>ecies, very similar, however, to one another. In consiMiUOiice of the 
incompleteness of Lamarck^s description of that sp«cies, different uuthoritie^ have 
