June 26, 1911] Some PuirLtPPINE PANDANACEAE 1115 
centia. Spathae naviculares, ovato-lanceolatae, inferiores in 
. appendicem, foliaceam  plus-minusve protractae, caeterae ac- 
uminatae vel acutae, luteae, 4 cent. longae, 1.5 cent. latae, 
crassiusculae, longitudinaliter venosae, apicem versus ad mar- 
gines et supra carinam denticulatae. Inflorescentia brevis, sub- 
racemosa, terna; pedicellis levibus, 6-10 mill. longis, 1.5-2 
mill. crassis, saepe unusquisque spathe diminuta, solitaria, 
lanceolata munitis. Synearpia pallide alba (immatura) cylin- 
dracea, 8-14 mill. longa, 4-5 mill. crassa. Baccis numerosis 
in vertice minime annulo cineti stigmata duo. 
Habitat:—A loose climber over cliffs and upon medium 
sized trees extending over or partly into the Pauala river at 
500-600 m. (1750-2000 feet). Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), 
Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. Elmer Philip. 
pl. n. 12426. (Herb. Martelli). 
Stem 0.5 inch thick, bendable, occasionally branched, crook- 
ed and knotty and obseurely spinose; wood porous, whitish, 
odorless and tasteless; bark grayish or yellowish so, green 
beneath the epidermis; branches laxly rebranched, hanging, 
curved and with ascending tips, forming hanging and 
interlaced masses; leaves heavy, pendulous, leathery, dark 
green above, very slightly paler beneath, shallowly grooved 
along the upper sile; inflorescence ascending, the outer 
bracts greenish, the inner ones deep yellow; stalks greenish; 
heads pale white, slightly odorous. (Elmer ms.) 
Indigenous name ''Baganot." 
Sectio; Pleiostigma 
» 1. Freycinetia superba Martelli sp. nova 
Alte scandens, caudice elongato, solitario vel subsolitario, 
tereti, griseo-luteo, internodis 1 cent. longis, sparse spinis 
conicis praedito, interdum ad apicem ramoso, ramulis pendulis, 
numerosis intricatis. Folia numerosa, rigide-coriacea, imbri- 
cata, juniora ascendentia, adultiora deflexa, lineari-ensiformia, 
apice subulata, 70-85 cent. longa, 13-17 mill. lata, subtus 
glaucescentia, supra intense viridia, utrinque minutissime long- 
itudinaliter erebrerrime venosa et in pagina superiori in di- 
midia superiori parte liueis impressis, minutis (e prefoliatione 
