99 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BoTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 60 
trigono, apicem versus incrassato. Syncarpia 3-5, conferta, 
subsessilia vel sessilia, globosa, 10-15 cent. diam., primum 
flavescentia, dein ad maturitatem intense rubra.  Phalanges 
numerosae, confertae, obpyriformes vel ex apice lato et 
convexo basi attenuata, acute exagonae, 4 cent. longae, 
19-23 mill. craąssae, in earum dimidia superiore parte liberae, 
vertice lato, plano; loculis 6-10, parvis, approximatis, sub- 
conniventibus, a sulcis profundis, angustis separatis, extus acute 
angulosis et pyramidatis, apice acutis; stigmatibus latis, ex- 
planatis, hippocrepiformibus, late verticem repletentibus. Meso- 
carpium superum, dense lancunoso-fibrosum, 1 cent. latum; 
endocarpium osseum, centrale. 1.5 cent. latum, superne inaequa- 
liter truncatum. 
Habitat:—In dense humid forests south of the Baruring 
river at 1200 m. (4000 feet). Todaya (Mt. Apo), District 
of Davao, Island of Mindanao, June, 1909. Elmer Philip. 
pl. n. 10823. (Herb. Martelli). 
Tree, 30 feet high, with an 8 inch stem;  proproots 
ascending, strict, 2 to 3 inches thick, reaching a height of 8 
feet; stem or wood rather hard without, soft and stringy 
within; bark yellowish, set with blunt cone shaped spines; 
main branches suberect, about 8 feet long, 3 to 5 inches 
thick, grayish, closely ringed; leaves densely crowded toward 
the top, in 3 strongly twisting rows, at the base slightly 
ascending, toward the ends recurved or when old broken 
and hanging, tips acuminate, base much flattened and ex- 
panded, glaucous green beneath, toward the base deeply grooved, 
margins sharply serrate especially toward the base, the keeled 
midrib beneath distantly so toward the top, the upper side dull 
green or somewhat glaucescent; infrutescence from the leaf 
axils, upon recurved 1.5 foot long green peduncle which 
gradually thickens toward the cluster, increasing from 0.5 inch 
to nearly 2 inches thick; heads mostly 5, globose, the largest 
4 inches thick, closely set, the terminal ones smaller, turn- 
ing yellowish, finally to a rich deep red. (Elmer ms.) 
Sectio; Hombronia 
Pandanus dubius Spreng. Syst. III, 897. 
Habitat:—A heavy and clumsy appearing tree in soil of 
