LEAFLETS: OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY 
EDITED BY A. D. E. ELMER, A. M. 
Vol. HI. Manila, P. L, June 26, 191l. Art. 60 
SOME PHILIPPINE PANDANACEAE 
BY 
Count Prof. U. Martelli 
(Florence, Italy) 
eae Ce 
Two years ago I published a critical review of the 
Philippine Pandanus, and last July another study of the 
Philippine Freycinetia. In the preface of this last article, I 
expressed the opinion that a greater number of species of 
Pandanaceae till now unknown, might yet be discovered in 
the great and unexplored forests of the Philippine Islands. 
Nevertheless I should never have thought that after so short 
a time it should be necessary to add so many novelties, all 
recently collected by Mr. Elmer on the island of Sibuyan 
and in the Mt. Apo region of Mindanao, And indeed as 
many as twenty four species under three genera of Pandan- 
aceae have been collected during his herborizations on those 
two islands alone,—thirteen Pandanus, ten Freycinetia and . 
one Sararanga. Of these, seven species of ‘Pandanus and five 
of Freycinetia are apparently till now undescribed; the other 
species, although already known, are no less interesting for 
their geographieal distribution. In consequence of these ad- 
ditions there are at present known 80 Pandanus, 42 Freycinetia 
and 1 Sararanga from the Philippine Archipelago. 
