1126 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. IIT, Arr. 60 
deeper green on the upper side, the base enlarged, retrorsely 
serrate on the keel beneath toward the base and serrate 
toward the apex, arranged in 8 rows which in the old 
stems are twisted; synearpia upon 1 to 3 inches long ascend- 
ing stalks which are strongly bracteated, promiscuously scat- 
tered beneath the foliage along the stem, densely surrounded 
by short marcescent bracts, 3 to 5 inches long; heads usually 
in a cluster, irregularly ovoid, bright red when mature, odorous. 
(Elmer ms.) 
Pandanus barai Martelli sp. nova 
Arbuscula, caudice 4.5 met. longo, 7-13 cent. diam., ir- 
regulariter tereti, griseo-lutescenti, tuberculis numerosis (radi- 
cibus adventitiis abortivis) praedito, parce ramoso, ramis curvis. 
Folia haud dense conferta, adultiora deplexa, superiora et 
novella ascendentia, recurva, elongato-linearia, 4 cent. lata, 
fere 150 cent. longa, apice acuta, in fere dimidia inferiore 
parte anguste et profunde canaliculata, basi abrupte paullo ex- 
pansa, subtus glaucescentia, minute longitudinaliter venosa et 
obscure superficialiter minutissime tessellata, superne secus 
plicas laterales, longu tractu, apicem versus, crebre et fero- 
citer spinulosa et dentium impressionibus notata, marginibus 
argute dentato-serratis, dentibus robustis, basin versus sub- 
horizontalibus caeterum late divaricatis; costa media angusta 
et acute prominenti, basin versus spinis robustis, crassis, re- 
duncis munita, caeterum nuda, apicem versus spinuloso-serrata. 
Racemus fructifer a syncarpis, 4-5 congestis compositus, sub- 
globoso-ovoideus, 17 cent. longus, 12 cent. latus, pedunculo 
ascendenti-recurvo, 17 cent. longo, 2 cent. crasso, acute trigono 
suffultus. Singula syncarpia spatha propria praedita; spathis viri- 
dibus vel pallede flavescentibus, ovato-triangularibus, 3 cent. 
longis, 2.5 cent. latis, fimbriatis, marcescentibus. Syncarpia 
7-9 cent, longa, 5-5.5 cent. diam., sessilia, curvula, trigono-pyram- 
idata, faciebus exterioribus subconvexis, facie axile spectanti 
plana; drupae numerosae, confertae, 16-19 mill. longae, 5-7 
mill. crassae, acute, penta-exagonae, e medio inferne cuneatae, 
basi acutae, superne acute pyramidatae et in parte libera, 
pileo 6-7 mill. longo, subearnosulo, pyramidato-rotundato, 
anguloso, vertice subplano praedita. Stigma  latiusculum, 
