APRIL 15, 1906 ] Panpans or East LEYTE 76 
Type specimen 7343, A. D. E. Elmer, Palo, Leyte, January, 
1906. It is the most common of the pandans in this region, 
growing everywhere in the shrubby forests of the low hill 
country and in the barringtonian formation near the seacoast 
and along the larger rivers. It usually stands singly and 
never forms thickets. Because of its convenient size, slender 
stems and branches, and graceful palm like leaves it is often 
used for decoration purposes. In Visayan it is called Aras-as 
It is most nearly related to P. polycephyllus Lam. but can 
be recognized by its shorter leaves, more slender branches, 
and by its triangularly ovoid syncarpia. The latter is a 
strand plant of the Moluccas and apparently has a different 
habit. P. paloensis Elm. is more distantly related to P. whit- 
fordii Merr. from which it is at once distinguished by its 
much wider leaves; much larger, more numerous and differently 
shaped syncarpia; and with four times the number of drupes. 
Pandanus muricatus n. sp. An erect or ascending shrub, 
about 3 or 4 m. high, usually forming small dense copses. 
Trunks sparingly branched from the base, usually provided 
with few and short prop roots; bark smooth, brown, ring 
like, beset with short blunt spines; uppermost branches com- 
paratively short, ascending and rigid. Leaves 2 m. long, 
5 em. wide, crowded in rows from the ends of the branches, 
shining green above, striate and paler beneath, the basal 
half ascending, the terminal portion gradually recurved, 
sharply serrate, midrib beneath keeled and finely toothed, 
the lateral median lines above and towards the slenderly 
acuminate apex distantly beset with small erect conical 
spines. Infrutescence without odor, terminal, subpendulous 
upon a 1 m. long triangular peduncle, bearing 3 to 5 dis- 
tantly arranged synearpia each subtended by a 10 cm. long 
bract; syncarpium descending, sessile, 15 cm. long, 7 em. in dia- 
meter, cylindric or subtriangular, equally rounded at both 
ends, frequently a trifle thicker between the middle and 
the apex, pale lemon color on the shaded side, its sunny side 
turning to a pleasing red; receptacle triangular, persistent, 
one third the thickness of the syncarpium; drupes very numerous 
and compactly set, 23 mm. long including the spinescent 
apical cap, 5 mm. in diameter across the middle, compress- 
