215 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY (Vou. I, ArT. 11 
spines. Leaves subcoriaceous, in obscurely twisted rows, the 
upper portion recurved, the three year old still persistent, 
3 em. wide, 8 dm. long, strap like, apex gradually tapering 
to an acuminate point, quite rigid, paler green beneath, 
edges finely serrate or dentate toward the base, midrib be- 
neath scabrous toward the apex. Main peduncles short, 1 
em, thick; secondary peduncles subcompressed, 2 to 3 em. 
long, 5 mm. thick, pale red; lower bracts of inflorescence 
dark wine color and with very slender ascending green tips; 
inner bracts much shorter, merely acute, orange red; stam- 
inate spadices 3 to 5-clustered, slenderly fusiform, 5 to 8 
em. long, 8 mm. in diameter, orange red with brown anthers 
and dirty yellow filaments, possessing a strong wine odor. 
Represented by 9008, A. D. E. Elmer, Lucban, Province 
of Tayabas, Luzon, May, 1907. Quite rare on steep slopes 
of large ravines at 700 meters on Mount Banahao. 
6. F. banahaensis n. sp.—Scandent and forming tangled 
loops. Stems and branches terete, 3 to 5 cm. thick, smooth, 
yellowish brown, with conspicuous rings 2 to 5 cm. apart. 
Leaves densely clustered toward the ends of the branches 
in obscure spirally twisted rows, the average one 1 m. long, 
gradually tapering from below the middle to the very slen- 
der whiplash like tips, 3 cm. wide, entire except the finely 
serrate basal margins, rather thick and rigid, shining green 
above, much paler beneath, margins strongly recurved above 
the middle; stipules marcescent and persistent on the leaf 
bases, 1 em. wide at the base, gradually tapering to the 
apex, 3 to 5 em. long. Leaf like bracts subtending the 
inflorescence creamy white, those immediately beneath the 
flowering stalk much shorter, thicker, and with broader 
bases; staminate and pistillate spadices with an odor of 
fresh baked bread, 3 to 7 in a cluster and terminating the 
branches, very unequal in length and thickness, when mature 
probably 3 cm. thick and 12 em. long or somewhat larger; 
main peduncles 8 mm. long, erect, 2 cm. thick; secondary ones 
triangular, averaging 5 cm. long, 1 cm. thick; fruit 8 mm. 
long, very numerous, apex obscurely rounded or truncate, 
the upper 2 mm. free, hard, obtusely angled; stigmas 
5 to 7. 
