PHILIPPINE FREYCINETIA. 
By Elmer D. ^Merrill. 
{From the Botanical iiection of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of Science, 
Manila, P. I.) 
Philippine PancJanaecae had received little attention before' the year 
1900 either from collectors or svstematists. However, in 1900, Warburnr 
published his monograph of the fanrdy/ recognizing. three genera, Sam- 
ranga, a monotypic genus, its single species, S. sinuosa Hemsl., known 
only from the Solomon Islands and Xew Guinea, Freycincira with (S'Z 
species, extending from Ceylon and Burma to Formosa, Malaya, northern 
Australia, Polynesia, and the Hawaiian Islands, with 7 species in the 
Philippines, and Fandanus Avilh 15C species, extending from tropical 
Africa to tropical Asia, Malaya, Australia, and Polynesia, with but a 
single species definitely recorded from the Philippines, and five Phil- 
ippine species described by Blanco considei'ed as doubtful ones. 
Before the publication of Warburg's monograph four species of Frey- 
cinetia. had been described from the Pliilippines by various authors, 
Warburg adding three additional ones, but recent collections have added 
a considerable number of species of the genus to the known Philippine 
flora, while a second species of Sararanga, {8. phiUppinensis Meir.), has 
been found on the east coasts of Luzon and Samar, and a large number 
of species of Pandanus have been described and the status determined 
of most of Blanco's imperfectly described species. 
In Martelli's recent paper on the Philippine species of Fandanus^ 
twenty-tliree species with several varieties are recognized as occurring in 
the Archipelago, beside three doubtful species, wliile more recent collec- 
tions have added two or three additional ones to the list. As many of the 
species of Fandnnns and Freycinctia are very local, it is very probable 
that we do not know more than one-half the species of eitlier genus 
actually growing in the Philippines. 
Tlic first species of Frryrinriia described from tlic Philippines was 
F. luzonemi^ Presl Epim. Bot. (1851) 238, but previously Gaudichaud 
had figured, but not described, what is a])i)arenlly tlie same species 
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