JUNE 26, 1911] Some PHILIPPINE PANDANACEAE 1123 
a wooded limestone ridge terminating at the sea and within 
reach of the saline influences. Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), 
Province of Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, May, 1910. Elmer Philip. 
pl. n. 12438. (Herb. Martelli). 
Stem 25 feet high, nearly the lower one half occupied 
by few and very thick proproots, 10 inches thick, the up- 
per portion divided into widely spreading branches, the ul- 
timate ones of which are ascending and 3 inches thick; wood 
soft, pulpy and stringy; bark yellowish, obscurely ringed, 
with conical excrescences; the leaves are similarly deep green 
on both sides, 3 to 5 or even 8 feet long, heavy, the basal 
one third erect, the apical portion twisted and pendulous, deeply 
grooved on the upper side toward the base, succulent, ser- 
rately spiny along the edges, 6 to 8 inches wide; the old or 
nearly decayed drupes 3 to 5 inches long; staminate inflores- 
cence erect, terminal, 2 feet long, subtended by creamy yel- 
low bracts. ( Elmer ms. ) 
Indigenous name "'Pandan-banang". 
Sectio; Bryantia 
Pandanus paloensis Elm.  Leafl. Philip. Bot. I, 75. 
Habitat:—In dry fertile soil of dense woods along a ridge 
leading to Mt. Burebid at 1000 m. (3250 feet). Todaya (Mt. 
Apo), District of Davao, Island of Mindanao, July, 1909. 
Elmer Philip. pl. n. 11224. (Herb. Martelli). 
Small slender solitary trees; proproots 1 inch thick, te- 
rete, yellowish gray as is also the 3 inches thick stem, 
all provided with short blunt conical spines; stem 15 feet 
high, branched from the middle; branches ascending, 1 inch 
thick, terete, 1 to 3 feet long, unbranched, densely ringed; 
leaves crowded toward the tips, gracefully recurved, rather 
tough, dark shining green above, deeply grooved all along the 
upper surface, somewhat paler green beneath, keel beneath 
smooth except at the very tip, margins serrate or serrately 
spinulose especially toward the base; infrutescence arising from 
near the apex; peduncle ascending and recurved, 6 to 10 inches 
long, triangular, slender; usually 8 to 5 or even 7 heads in a 
cluster, 1.5 inches long by 1 inch across, obscurely ovoid, dull 
