June 26, 1911] Some PHILIPPINE PANDANACEAE 1125 
spatha marcescenti, suffulta, sessilia vel subsessilia, rubro-coc- 
cinea, ovoidea, trigona, 3.5-4 cent. lata et longa; drupae nu- 
merosae, confertae, parvae, 11 mill. longae, 5 mill. crassae, 
pentagonae, in earum parte superiori (4 mill. longa) py- 
ramidato-rotundatae et liberae, summo vertice angustiusculo, 
gibbosulo sed in centro concaviusculo; stigmata exentrica, 
parva, plana, biloba vel integra et rotundata. Caverna mesocar- 
pica apicalis, 2 mill. longa; endocarpium osseum supra me- 
dium drupae situm, 4 mill. longum, rotundatum vel inferne 
cuneatum, superne truncatum. 
Habitat:—In compact fertile soil near Nipa swamps at 
30 m. (100 feet). Magallanes (Mt. Giting-giting), Province of 
Capiz, Island of Sibuyan, March, 1910. Elmer Philip. pl. 
n. 12139. (Herb. Martelli). 
Low, numerously branched shrub; stem 8 inches thick at 
least, suberect, usually few to several from the same cluster, 
3 to 5 feet high or even less, terete, yellowish gray, ringed 
every 0.5 to 0.75 inch, beset with blunt spines, repeatedly rebran- 
ched, the latter with the copious leaves forming dense jungles; 
leaves crowded, ascending, the apical portion or one third 
deflexed, 3 to 5 feet long, somewhat paler green beneath, 
caniculate on the upper side especially toward the base, sharply 
serrate along the edges, scabrous along the apical median line 
beneath the blade; infrutescence terminal, upon 1 foot long 
and recurved triangular peduncle, usually 7 or more, the ter- 
minal ones ripening and falling earlier, dull brick red, sessile, 
triangularly ovoid. (Elmer ms.) 
Indigenous name ''Mapola"'. 
Pandanus lateralis Martelli in Philip. Journ. Sci. III, 69. 
Habitat:—In shrubberies of gulches in the cogon region 
at 800 m. (1000 feet). Todaya (Mt. Apo), District of Davao, 
Island of Mindanao, June, 1909. Elmer Philip. pl. n. 11029. 
(Herb. Martelli). z 
Stocky shrub or tree, 10 to 15 feet high; stem 3 to 5 
inches thick, rebranched but usually several in a cluster, yel- 
lowish, densely ringed, with occasional blunt cone-like spines; 
leaves not very rigid at the base and quite limp towards the 
apex, divaricate, the tips pendulous, deeply grooved and 
