1130 LEAFLETS OF PHILIPPINE BOTANY [Vor. III, Arr. 60 
envergti, interdum curvo, subcorneo, praedito. Caverna mes- 
ocarpica supera, parva, 1 mill. longa, semilenticularis. Endocar- 
pium obpyriforme, 3.5 mill. longum. 
Habitat:—In damp fertile humus covered soil of dense 
woods south of the Sibulan river at 1200 m. (4000 feet). Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), Distriet of Davao, Island of Mindanao, August, 
1909.. Elmer Philip. pl. n. 11313. (Herb. Martelli). 
Solitary tree; stem 30 feet high or higher, 7 inches thick, 
the basal 5 to 7 feet divided into proproots 3 inches thick, 
terete, yellowish, smooth except for the short conical spines; 
branches 3 to 5 inches thick, the lower or longer one 12 feet 
long; leaves crowded at the ends in dense twisting rows, the 
lower dry, the nether persisting ones hanging, the upper 
ones ascending with apical portion deflexed, deeply grooved on 
the upper slightly darker green surface, keel beneath more 
or less serrate throughout, margins sharply serrate toward the 
base; infrutescence composed of 3 to 5 synearpia, clustered 
about the stem or rather branched immediately beneath the 
green foliage and more or less concealed by the old hanging 
foliage, divaricate and entirely covered over by numerous mar- 
cescent sheaths; peduncle a few inches long only, also covered 
with sheaths; syncarpium about 6 inches long, ovoid in shape, 
composed of 3 twisting rows of capitulae or small flattened 
heads closely set together and gradually reduced toward the 
apex (those at the base also reduced), averaging about 6 in a 
row; drupes pale, salmon red; stigma rather sharp and subper- 
sistent. (Elmer ms.) 
Indigenous name ‘‘Maraia’’. 
Pandanus polyglossus Martelli sp. nova 
Frequenter subcaespitosus. Caudices subabbreviati, 20-25 
cent. crassi, ramosi, radicibus numerosis adventitiis 1.8-6 met. 
longis, 8-18 cent. crassis praediti; ramis circiter 2-6 met. longis, 
7-13 cent. crassis, furcatis; ramulis in parte terminali erecto- 
ascendentibus. Folia conferta, ascendentia, superne deflexa, 
erasse coriacea, bimetralia et ultra, 8 cent. lata, basi non 
expansa, usque ad apicem sensim attenuata, ibique longe acumi- 
nata et quasi in flagellum breve producta, subtus glaucescentia 
. et minutissime euperficialiter crebrerrime longitudinaliter sub- 
