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lateral nerves on the upper surface toward the apex, the apex 

 acute in very young leaves, in mature ones cleft into two short 

 lobes, the lobes oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, up to 1.5 cm 

 long, their margins toothed. Syncarps solitary, terminal, glo- 

 bose, about 8 cm in diameter, the peduncles about 10 cm long, 

 apparently pendulous. Drupes numerous, crowded, about 3 cm 

 long, 1 to 2 cm wide, narrowed below, 5- or 6-celled, angular, 

 the apical part cleft between the loculi, the individual terminal 

 parts of the loculi 5 to 10 mm long, angular, narrowed upward ; 

 stigmas somewhat oblique, 2 to 3 mm in diameter, prominently 

 depressed in the center. 



Catanduanes, on forested slopes along the Santo Domingo River, Bur. 

 Sci. 30Jt89 Ramos, December 5, 1917. 



A species well characterized by being nearly acaulescent, in habit closely 

 approximating Pandanus brachypodus Martelli, but with solitary syncarps 

 and entirely different drupes. 



PANDANUS PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. § Keura. 



Arbor circiter 10 m alta ; f oliis usque ad 2.2 m longis, circiter 

 9 cm latis, sursum angustatis, acuminatis; syncarpiis circiter 6, 

 spicatim dispositis, confertis, subglobosis ad subellipsoideis, 

 circiter 11 cm longis; drupis numerosis, confertis, circiter 3.5 cm 

 longis, plerumque circiter 1.5 cm diametro, angulatis, 5- ad 8- 

 locellatis, partibus i superioribus liberis, subpyramidatis, ex- 

 tremitate truncatis, circiter 1 cm diametro, loculorum apices 

 pyramidales, 5 ad 7 mm longis, sulcis distinctis separati ; stigma- 

 tibus obliquis. 



A tree about 10 m high. Leaves coriaceous, about 2.2 m 

 long and 9 cm wide, the margins toothed throughout, the midrib 

 on the lower surface with scattered teeth in the upper part of 

 the leaf, the lateral veins here distinct, one on each side of the 

 midrib, unarmed. Syncarps usually 6, arranged in a dense 

 spike, subglobose to subellipsoid. Drupes numerous, crowded, 

 about 3.5 cm long, mostly about 1.5 cm in diameter, 5- to 8-celled, 

 angular, narrowed below, the upper one-fourth free, narrowed 

 upward, the apex truncate and about 1 cm in diameter, the apices 

 of the loculi pyramidal, 5 to 7 mm long, the sulci between them 

 distinct, narrow; stigmas oblique, about 1.5 mm in diameter. 



Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya Province, Campote, Bur. Sci. 11289 McGregor, 

 March, 1912, on forested hillsides. 



This species is well characterized by its crowded, spicately arranged 

 syncarps, and the narrowly pyramidal free apices of the loculi of the 

 drupes. In vegetative characters it is suggestive of Pandanus exaltatus 

 Blanco, but is totally different from that species in its numerous syncarps, 

 and in the details of the individual drupes. 



