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length, about 10 cm wide, thickly coriaceous, the marginal teeth 

 below coarse, spreading, above finer and ascending, the midrib 

 on the lower surface in the upper part with small antrorse teeth. 

 Infructescences terminal, pendulous, the rachis 2 to 3 cm in dia- 

 meter, the heads about 9, oblong-ellipsoid or oblong-ovoid, about 

 18 cm long and 10 cm in diameter. Drupes numerous, obovoid, 

 angular, 3.5 to 5 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm wide, 9- to 15-celled, the 

 apical parts with rounded shoulders, the tip truncate and 1 

 to 1.5 cm in diameter, shallbwly sulcate between the tips of 

 the loculi, the latter irregularly conical, 2 mm long or less and 

 at most 4 mm in diameter at their bases. Stigmas scarcely ob- 

 lique, rounded or reniform, 1 to 1.5 mm in diameter, usually 

 depressed in the center. 



Catanduanes, Bur. Sri. 30^62 Ramos, December 10, 1917, in damp 

 forests. 



This species is remarkable for its habit, being tall and unbranched, and 

 for its pendulous spikelike racemes of numerous syncarps. It belongs in 

 the same group as Pandanus radicans Blanco and P. botryoides Martelli, 

 from both of which it is readily distinguished by its more numerous 

 syncarps, larger drupes, and much more numerous stigmas and loculi. 



PANDANUS BILIRANENSIS sp. nov. § Vinsonia. 



Arbor circiter 7 m alta; foliis circiter 2.5 m longis et 6 cm 

 latis, acuminatis ; syncarpiis solitariis, globosis, ut videtur circi- 

 ter 20 cm diametro; drupis numerosis, circiter 7 cm longis, ple- 

 rumque circiter 3 cm diametro, 5- vel 6-locellatis, 5- vel 6- 

 angulatis, in £ inferiore parte angustatis, apice subpyramidatis, 

 late rostratis, extremitate 5 ad 8 mm diametro, planis vel leviter 

 concavis; stigmatibus 5 vel 6, planis, confluentibus. 



A tree about 7 m high. Leaves about 2.5 cm long and 6 cm 

 wide, coriaceous, narrowed upward to the acuminate apex, the 

 margins toothed throughout, the teeth much more prominent in 

 the lower 50 cm than above, the midrib near the tip minutely 

 toothed on the lower surface. Syncarps solitary, globose, ap- 

 parently pendulous, and about 20 cm in diameter. Drupes large, 

 numerous, about 7 cm long, mostly about 3 cm in diameter, 5- 

 or 6-angled, 5- or 6-celled, narrowed below from the upper three- 

 fourths, the upper one-fourth subpyramidal, broadly rostrate, 

 the tip plane or slightly concave, 5 to 8 mm in diameter, the 

 stigmas 5 or 6, confluent, plane, quite covering the tip of the 

 syncarp. 



Biliran, Bur. Sci. 18895 McGregor, June 20, 1914, in forests, altitude 

 about 300 meters. 



In the form and aspect of the drupes, except in their broadly rostrate 

 apices and plane, confluent stigmas covering the truncate tips, this species 

 is suggestive of Pandanus dubius Spreng., but it does not belong in the 



