LEAFLETS ON PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
Vok 1: Manila, P. I., August 1, 1906. Art. 6. 
NEW PANDANACEAE FROM MT. BANAHAO 
BY 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
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Freycinetia monocephala n. sp. A delicate and profuse- 
ly branched shrub, climbing trees and undershrubs; branch- 
es slender, many, 3 to 5 mm. in diameter, covered with 
& smooth brown bark, the ultimate branches usually drooping 
and bearing scattered leaves. Blades thin, very numerous, 
glabrous on both sides, 5 to 9 cm. long, 2 to 4 mm. wide 
across the middle or just below the middle, the basal por- 
tion conspicuously narrowed and usually somewhat recurved, 
margins entire, apex slenderly tapering to a fine point; sheath 
present on the younger blades, thinly scarious, 3 to 5 mm. 
long, margins sparsely ciliate. Infrutescence terminal, erect, 
solitary; peduncle 1 cm. long, straight, slender and glabrous, 
subterete, arising from a short thickened gnarly triangular 
terminal portion of the twig, subtended by foliage leaves; 
drupes not numerous nor compact, 8 mm. long, 4 mm. in 
diameter across the middle, usually 4-ridged, not compress- 
ed, equally tapering toward both ends, the immature ones 
united below the middle or from a trifle above this but 
soon becoming separated, yellowish red when mature; cone 
small, pyramidal, 3 to 5 but usually 4-angled, bearing at 
its truncate apex 2, 3, 4 or 5 stigmas. 
