June 26, 1911] Some PHILIPPINE PANDANACEAE 1197 
planum, reniforme, in medio profunde excavatum et subbilobum. 
Caverna mesocarpica supera, acute conica, 4 mill. longa. En- 
docarpium osseum spissum, 1 cent. longum, superne planum. 
Habitat:—In very moist humus covered soil on the north 
flank of the Baruring river at 1000 m. (3500 feet). Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Island of Mindanao, June, 1909. | 
Elmer Philip. pl. n. 10924. (Herb. Martelli). 
A tree-like shrub; stem 3 to 5 inches thick, 15 feet high, 
irregularly terete, yellowish gray, covered with coarse spine- 
like tubercles; wood hard and whitish on the outside, pithy 
in the center, odorless and with a sweet taste; branches few 
and erooked, above the middle; twigs 2 inches thick, curving- 
ly suberect; leaves not densely crowded in twisting rows, the 
upper ones ascendingly curved, the lower ones descending, 
lighter green beneath, grooved along the upper side, especial- 
ly deeply so toward the base, spinescent on the margins and 
along the keel beneath toward the base, scabrid on the keel 
toward the apex, base abruptly broadened; infrutescence from 
the uppermost leaf axils, upon 6 inches long triangular 0.75 
inch thick peduncle which from the base is ascending and 
ultimately becoming recurved; fruit cluster ovoid in outline, 
7 inches long, 5 inches across the base; syncarpia 4 to 10, 
subtended by broad fimbriate marcescent bracts, triangularly 
flattened, 3 inches long, nearly as wide across the base, 
more flattened on tbe upper side, ovoid in outline, hard, 
green on the exposed sides, otherwise pale yellowish; drupes 
with rounded shoulders, bearing a solitary brown stigma. 
(Elmer ms.) 
Indigenous name ‘‘Barai’’. 
-Pandanus calceiformis Martelli sp. nova 
Arboreus, trunco 3.4.5 met. longo, circiter 15 cent. 
diam. ad apicem tantum breviter ramoso, flavescenti et 
spinis obtusis (Elmer) praedito. Folia ad apicem ramorum 
dense conferta, 1.7-2 met. longa, 4 cent. lata, coriacea, lori- 
formia, recurva, apice breviter sensim acutata, in ima basi 
tantum paullo dilatata, e basi usque fere ad medium pli- 
cata et profunde canaliculata, caeterum subplana, in pagina 
