June 26, 1911] Some PHILIPPINE PANDANACEAE 1117 
16. Freycinetia Elmeri Martelli in Webbia III, 22. 
Habitat:—In sticky red clay of woods along the trail to 
Espafia at 600 m. (200 feet). Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), 
Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 1910. Elmer 
Philip. pl. n. 12072 mase. (Herb. Martelli). 
The scandent stem is 3 inches thick, terete, flexible, provided 
with scattering spines; wood sappy white, the inner mass soft 
and fibrous; bark yellowish gray, smooth, green beneath the 
epidermis; branches scattered but more numerous toward the top 
where they form interlaced masses, slender, somewhat droop- 
ing, with green suberect tips; leaves alternate, arranged along 
‘the branchlets, ascending from the caniculate base, grace- 
fully recurved otherwise, thickly coriaceous, deep shining green 
on the upper creased surface, a trifle paler beneath; inflo- 
rescence erect, creamy white, 3 to 5-spicate, the subtending 
lowermost bracts with green slender tips, the basal portion 
of the thick caducous bracts nearly salmon yellow, very sweetly 
fragrant. (Elmer ms.) 
28. Freycinetia megacarpa Merr. in Philip. Journ. Sci. 
III, 314. 
Habitat: —In moist fertile soil of humid woods along 
the Patoo river bank at 200 m. (750 feet). Magallanes (Mt. 
Giting-giting), Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, April, 
1910. Elmer Philip. pl. n. 12270 masc. (Herb. Martelli). 
Stem climbing up to 20 feet, only sparingly branched, 
0.5 inch thick, wiry; wood quite hard, whitish, porous, odor- 
less, sweet to taste; bark yellowish gray, smooth except for 
the rings and occasional spicule; leaves regularly scattered, 
thickly coriaceous, horizontal, slightly recurved, the green 
base ascending, paler green beneath; infrutescence subpen- 
dulous upon a short common ringed stalk; the peduncles of 
the 3 heads sparsely longer, greenish, not ringed; heads short 
ellipsoid, nearly 2 inches long, yellow but eventually turn- 
ing red except the brown stigmas. (Elmer ms.) 
