1124 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IIT, Arr. 60 
red, subtended by marcescent bracts; the whole cluster sub- 
tended by foliaceous bracts. (Elmer ms.) 
Indigenous name ''Baroiy-latong". 
Pandanus glauciphyllus C. B. Rob. in Bull. Torr. Bot. 
Club XXXV, 64. 
Habitat:—On hills near the seacoast, Romblon, Island 
of Romblon, March, 1910. Elmer Philip. pl. n. 12153. (Herb. 
Martelli ). 
Small isolated trees; stem a few inches thick, 15 feet high, 
branched from the middle; bark yellowish gray, more or less 
provided with short blunt points; aerial roots short, rather 
few; leaves crowded toward the ends of the branchlets, at 
least 1 inch wide, a yard long, ascending, the apical portion 
recurved, paler green beneath; infrutescence solitary to each 
branch, terminal; peduncle 6 inches long, triangular, less than 
0.5 inch thick; heads 5 to 7, closely set, bright red when 
mature, ovoidly triangular, the basal ones usually smaller, 2 
to 3 inches long. (Elmer ms.) 
Pandanus mapola Martelli sp. nova. 
Arbuscula, 1.5-2 met. vel minus alta, caespitosa, ra- 
mosissima, trunco 8 et ultra cent. crasso, suberecto, tereti, fla- 
vescenti-griseo, spinis obtusis ( Elmer) vel potius radi- 
cibus adventitiis spiniformibus ornato praedito. Folia dense 
ad apicem ramulorum conferta, ascendentia, apice flaccido- 
deplexo, 90-150 cent. longa, 4 cent. lata, basi fere usque ad 
medium acute et anguste canaliculato-plicata, apice attenuato- 
acuminata, utrinque (parte basilari in pagina inferiori ex- 
cepta) minute tessellata, marginibus, acute dentatis, dentibus 
vulgo brevibus, acutis, in parte basilari validioribus et sub- 
horizontalibus; costa media acuta, in parte basilari, longo 
tractu, spinis brevibus, crassiusculis, aduncis armata, caeterum 
nuda, apice minute spinulosa. Racemus terminalis, pedun- 
culo circiter 30 cent. longo, acute trigono, fere digitis 
minoris  crassitiae suffultus et spatha una vel duplex, 
foliacea in parte superiori praedito. Syncarpia 5-7 vel nume- 
rosiora ad apicem pedunculi dense conferta, unumquoque a 
