75 LEAFLETS ON PHILIPPINE BOTANY [ Vor. I, ART. 4 
antrorsely serrate along the edges, less so along the median 
line beneath, apex acute, largest ones 6 m. long and 12 cm. 
wide, the upper one third usually drooping. Infrutescence 
upon a strong recurved 5 dm. long stalk; receptacle with 
a pine apple odor, triangular, pendulous, in the early stages 
subtended by bracts; mature syncarpia dark brick red, 6 to 
10 in a cluster, ovoid, the terminal ones usually smaller, 
about 8 cm. in diamter and 14 cm. long; drupes smooth, 
100 or more, its obscure angles rounded, 12 mm. in diameter, 
2.5 cm. in length, the upper one third free and conically 
rounded to a comparatively small truncate apex which bears 
irom 5 to 7 wart like stigmas. 
This species is represented by my number 7200, collected 
at Palo, Leyte, January, 1906. 
Pandanus paloensis n. sp. Erect shrubs, 2 to 3 m. 
high, solitary or frequently in small groups of three from the 
same root. Stems 3 to 5 cm. in diameter, with short prop roots, 
branched above the middle; branches slender, ascending, rather ` 
numerous and frequently rebranched; bark grayish brown, 
ring like, beset with pointed conical spines, otherwise smooth. 
Leaves numerously crowded towards the ends of the ultimate 
branches, 4 to 7 dm. long, 2 cm. wide, the apex acuminate, 
sharply serrate along the edges, midrib of the younger leaves 
retrorsely serrate below the middle and antrorsely toothed toward 
the apex, upper surface and towards the &pex set with 
distant antrorse teeth, nearly all the leaves gracefully re- 
curved. Infrutescence terminal, erect upon a triangular 
3 to 5 em. long stalk; syncarpia without odor, 6 to 10 in 
a cluster, sessile, ascending, rather closely set, each subtended 
by a thin marcescent bract the lowest one of which is much 
the longest and equalling the infrutescence, 2.5 to 4.5 em. 
long, 2 to 3 cm. in diameter, triangularly ovoid; receptacle 
lanceoloid, less than one third the diameter of the entire 
syncarpium; drupes shining strawberry red when mature, closely 
set, about 200, angular or more or less compressed, the 
angles of the upper one fourth free portion terminating in 
a rounded or subtruneate apex bearing a brown disk like 
stigma, about 6 mm. long, 4 mm. wide above the middle, 
1-celled. 
