Oct. 22. 



1919] 



New Woody Plants from Mt. Maquilixg 



309? 



3 peduncles, few corymbosely branched, the ultimate 

 ones somewhat compressed, all articulate at the point 

 of branching but without bracts; flowers white, usually 

 sessile and terminally clustered; calyx thick, turbinate, 



4 mm. long and almost as wide across the truncate or very 

 obscurely toothed apex, ebracteolate; corolla arising from 

 the calyx, white, caducous, imbricately folded over one 

 another, forming a rounded cone, falling together; stamens 

 indefinite, incurved in the bud state, finally much spreading, 

 inserted upon the calyx rim; the filaments subequal, up 

 to 5 mm. long, turning reddish brown; anthers oblong, 

 0.33 mm. in length; style thick, shorter than the stamens, 

 arising from the center of the deep concavity, termi- 

 nated by a pointed stigma. 



Type specimen number 17882, A. D. E. Elmer, Los 

 Bafios (Mt. Maquiling), Province of Laguna, Luzon, June- 

 July, 1917. Gathered among the densely wooded summit 

 region of the mountain after which it is named. 



Critically related to Eugenia alvarezil C. B. Rob.. Eu. 

 qenia roseomarginata of the same author and to Eugeai/i 

 benthamii Gray, from all of which it is distinguished by 

 its caudate leaf tips and by the double submarginal veins. 



PANDANACEAE 



Freycinetia robusta Elm. n. sp. 



A rank low climber. Stem 8 cm. thiuk, terete, yellowish 

 gray, obscurely ringed and spinulose; branches forming 

 tangled masses, curved, stout, rigid, the ultimate ones 

 ascendingly curved toward the leafy tips. Leaves im- 

 bricately crowded in 3 spiral series, leathery, paler green 

 beneath, 7 cm. wide throughout and 7 dm. long, gradually 

 tapering to the acuminately notched apex, edges nearly 

 smooth or toward both ends finely serrate, midrib somewhat 

 keeled beneath and smooth, lateral veins fine and very 

 numerous; stipules adnate, 9 to 13 cm. long and up to 

 2 cm. wide, the blunt obtuse apical portion spinnlooe 

 along the margin, submembranous toward the reddish 

 brown sides, more coarsely veined than the blade itself. 

 Infrutescence erect, terminal, upon a short common 

 peduncle; secondary peduncles nearly 4 cm. long, 

 brownish but glabrous, 1.25 cm. thick, ascending: 

 spikes 3, ascending from the base, recurved tow- 

 ard the apex, hard, green ov immature, subterete. 

 more or less rugose, fully 5 cm. thick and 2 dm. lon^r: 

 drupes closely set, 1.5 cm. long, apical portion flat and 

 thickened, the short neck more or less angular; seeds 



