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densely covered by spirally arranged, very numerous, imbricating, 
coriaceous, rigid, oblong, entire or slightly toothed bracts, 2 
to 3 cm in length. Syncarps 8 to 10, red, spicately arranged, 
rather crowded, ovoid, 1.5 to 2.5 em long, composed of numerous, 
densely arranged, 1-celled drupes which are 3 mm or less in 
diameter, their apices abruptly narrowed, somewhat ridged, 
terminated by the slender, entire or slightly toothed, rigid, 
straight or somewhat curved styles which are up to 5 mm in 
length. 
MINDANAO, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34571 (type), 34819 
Ramos & Pascasio, April 25, 1919, at the iron deposit on the 
northeast coast on the Hegapit River, altitude about 680 meters. 
The fruit red when mature. 
A remarkable species, not closely allied to any previously 
described Philippine form and easily recognizable by its lateral, 
spicate inflorescences; by its small, ovoid syncarps, the tips of 
the drupes narrowed and elongated; and by the multibracteate 
peduncles. 
PANDANUS RAMOSII sp. nov. § Bryantia. 
Frutex, 2 ad 3 m altus, ramulis ultimis circiter 1.5 cm dia- 
metro; foliis crasse coriaceis, linearis, circiter 1.5 m longis, 2 — 
ad 2.5 cm latis, apice tenuiter acuminatis; syncarpiis termina- 
libus, erectis, solitariis, ovoideis, 5 ad 6 cm longis, pedunculo 
usque ad 20 cm longo, circiter 7 mm diametro; drupis numerosis, 
1-locellatis, 10 ad 12 mm longis, circiter 3 mm diametro, anguste 
oblongis, $ superioribus liberis, rotundatis, stigma sessile, pla- 
num, circiter 1.8 mm diametro. 
_A shrub, 2 to 3 m high, the ultimate branches about 1.5 cm 
in diameter. Leaves thickly coriaceous, rigid, rather pale when 
dry, linear, about 1.2 m long, 2 to 2.5 em wide, narrowed above 
to the rather slender, acuminate apex, the margins distinctly 
toothed, the midrib on the lower surface in the upper part more 
or less toothed as are the 2 primary veins on the upper surface 
toward the apex. Syncarps terminal, erect, solitary, ovoid, 5 
to 6 cm long, somewhat triangular in cross section, the basal 
part somewhat inclosed by a few, broadly ovate, leaflike bracts, 
the peduncles up to 20 cm long, triangular, about 7 mm in 
diameter, supplied with 2 or 3 reduced leaves 25 to 40 cm in 
length in addition to the terminal, leaflike bracts. Drupes very 
numerous, crowded, red, 1-celled, 10 to 12 mm long, about 3 mm 
in diameter, narrowly oblong, the apical half free, somewhat 
angular, rather abruptly rounded or narrowed at the apex and 
terminated by the flat, sessile, truncate stigma, which is usually 
about 1.3 mm in diameter. 
