JuNE 26, 1911] Some PHILIPPINE PANDANACEAE 1:21 
ed from the middle but usually higher up, its proproots 
2 inches thick, 5 to 7 feet high, yellowish gray, ringed, 
smooth except for the blunt spines; the main branches erect, 
the larger or longer ones again 3 branched; leaves crowded 
in 3 spiral rows at the top of the branchlets, mainly hori- 
zontally spreading, the apical portion especially recurved, 
quite rigid and coriaceous, deeply caniculate on the upper 
side toward the base, sublucid on the upper dark green 
side, lighter green beneath, margins serrate as well as 
the median vein beneath and the 2 Jateral lines above 
toward the apex, 5 to 9 feet long, 2 to 3 inches wide, the 
base abruptly dilated; infrutescence terminal, with a lateral 
shoot arising from its basal side, pendulous upon a nearly 2 
feet long green triangular peduncle which at the base is 0.5 
inch across and at its distal end 1.25 inch thick, 3 branched 
at the end; each of the branchlets bearing a solitary head, 
the terminal one of which matures earlier; fruits short ellip- 
soid, 6 to 9 inches long, 6 inches wide across the middle, 
solid, heavy, dull red. (Elmer me.) 
Indigenous name ‘‘Pandan-bagas’’. 
Pandanus mindanaensis Martelli sp. nova 
Arbor 9 met. alta, ramosa, trunco circiter 20 cent. diam. 
flavescenti, radicibus adventitiis, circiter 2.5 met. longis, 5-8 cent. 
crassis, suffulto, ramis suberectis, circiter 2.5 met. longis, 
8.5 cent. crassis, cinerascentibus. Folia ad apicem ramorum 
dense conferta e basi erecta, superne recurva, coriacea, 2.5-3 
met. longa, 7-8 cent. lata, loriformia, apicem versus sensim 
attenuato-acuminata, in fere dimidia inferiore parte profunde 
canaliculata et plicata, caeterum quoque plicata sed expansa, 
in parte basilari valde incrassata, in ima basi breviter sen- 
sim beviter expansa, in pagina superiori intense viridia, ibi- 
que plicis lateralibus apicem versus acutiusculis et laevibus 
praedita, subtus glauca et crebre minute longitudinaliter ve- 
nosa; marginibus crebre acute serratis, dentibus inferne ro- 
bustiusculis et longiuseulis, subulatis, irregularibus, rectis, valde 
patentibus, superne parvis, ácutis, subappressis; costa media 
acuta et prominula, remote spinulosa. Inflorescentia termi- 
nalis racemosa; peduncolo recurvo, viridi, 30-35 cent. longo, 
