79 LEAFLETS ON PHILIPPINE BOTANY ( Vor. 1, Art. 6. 
Type specimen 7380, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. It inhabits the 
foothills at 700 meters, and usually is met in very damp 
and deeply shaded places. All plants observed bare single 
heads. Easily recognized by its numerous, thin and short 
grass like leaves. 
Pandanus banahaensis n. sp. A round toped tree 15 m. 
high or higher with more or less scaling bark covered with 
mosses and lichens; spines conical, blunt and short; stems 
usually short, never longer than the upper one third, about 
3 dm. in diameter; branches numerous, widely spreading, 
forming an umbrella shaped crown 7 or more meters in 
diameter; prop roots single or the larger ones branched, various 
in size and length, the larger ones as thick as a man's 
body, never less than two thirds the heigth from the ground 
to the branches but frequently extending from the latter 
clear to the ground. Leaves densely crowded toward the ends 
of the branches and casting almost a solid shade, not at all 
arranged in spirally twisted rows, shining green above, with 
a glaucous shade beneath, mostly recurved or subpendulous 
when old, 2 to 3 m. long, 8 to 12 cm. wide, somewhat 
narrowed toward the base, apex acute, 1 dm. below the 
apex 5 cm. wide; the keel of the midvein beneath smooth 
below the middle, finely but distantly serrate toward the apex, 
the margins sharply serrate from base to apex, the teeth 
near the base stout and rather distant, those toward the apex 
fine and numerous; lateral median lines on the upper sur- 
face toward the apex sharply apiculate. Syncarpium solitary 
upon a recurved 6 dm. long triangular peduncle, com- 
posed of hard closely set drupes, 20 cm. long, 15 cm. in 
diameter, ovoid; drupes about 100, tapering from the base 
to the truncate apex, 4 to 5 cm. long, 3 cm. in diameter above 
the middle or narrower in the smaller ones, the upper 1 
cm. free and smooth, obtusely and irregularly 5 to 7-angled, 
yellowish red when mature; locules 5 to 7, stout, conical or 
irregularly pyramidal, the central ones frequently smaller, 
about 5 mm. high, each terminated by a single sessile 1 
mm. in diameter brown stigma. 
Type specimen 7378, A. D. E. Elmer, Mount Banahao, 
Province of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1906. This species is the 
