Jouxe 26, 1911] Some PHILIPPINE PANDANACEAE 1111 
FREYCINETIA 
Sectio; Oligostigma 
1*. Freycinetia maxima Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. III, 
310. 
Habitat:—In woods of moist fertile soil along the Pauala 
river at 200 m. (750 feet). Magallanes. (Mt. Giting-giting), 
Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 1910. Elmer. 
Philip. pl. n. 12114. (Herb. Martelli). 
Stem 1 inch thick, only sparingly branched, climbing along 
a tree trunk for 15 to 25 feet high; old stems obliquely 
ringed every inch or so, the soft fibrous white wood cov- 
ered with smooth yellowish gray bark; leaves scattered in 
rows all along, horizontal, gracefully recurved, gradually twist- 
ed from base to apex, deeply grooved on the upper side 
below the middle, shining deep green above, much paler be- 
neath, the basal portion provided with a dark purple 1 
inch wide and 3 inches long pair of stipules, heavy, thickly . 
coriaceous; infrutescence terminal, upon a 6 inches long sub- 
recurved peduncle, the pedicels only an inch or two long; 
spikes 3, subterete and often wavy or rugose, 6 to 9 inches 
long, 2 to 3 inches thick; seeds maturing from the apex 
toward the base, deep red except the brown stigma, of a 
fermented wine odor. (Elmer ms.) 
3* Freycinetia apoensis Martelli sp. nova 
Folia in corona ad apicem ramorum conferta imbrica- 
ta, subcoriacea, basin versus crassiora, 60-70 cent. longa, 3-3. 
5 cent. lata, anguste, elongato-lanceolata, utrinque sensim et 
longe attenuata, apice attenuato-acuminata, basin versus longe 
canaliculata, utrinque crebre et conspicue longitudinaliter venosa, 
subtus, praecipue prope basin, saepius tesselata et sublaevia; 
auriculis membranaceis, minime scariosis, cito marcescentibus 
et in fibras solutis, amplis, 5 cent. longis, basi 2 cent. la- 
* This number corresponds to that of my Freycinetia delle Lgs 
Filippine in Webbia III, 1910, and when the letter a, b, etc., is add 
to this number, it shows where the species must be interpoleted ac- 
cording to its affinities. 
