June 26, 1911] Some PHILIPPINE PANDANACEAE 1131 
inconspique venosa, e basi usque fere ad medium profunde 
canaliculata, caeterum subplana; marginibus crebre et irre- 
gulariter serratis, dentibus parvis, subulatis, erectis, subap- 
prexis, basilaribus conspicue divaricatis; plicis lateralibus 
tenuibus, inermibus; nonnullis, impressionibus e prefoliatione 
enatis, subobscure longitudinaliter percursa; costa media tenui, 
acuta, vix prominenti, nuda, apice tantum spinis remotis 
munita. Inflorescentia apicalis, erecta (pendula, Elmer), spicata, 
85 cent. longa, pedunculo communi 2.5 cent. crasso, 25 cent. 
longo, parte fructifera 65 cent. longa. Syncarpia numerosa 
(16), remote subverticellata, vulgo sessilia, inferiora tantum 
breviter pedicellata, erecta, 8-15 cent. longa, 4 cent. lata, lin- 
guaeformia, in eoram parte intermedia subincrassata, apice 
subattenuato et obtusiuseulo. Syncarpium apicale regulariter tri- 
gonum; syncarpia lateralia etiam trigona sed in parte axem 
spectanti plana, extus rotundata. Drupae numerossimae, con- 
fertae, luteae (submaturae), lineares, prismaticae, acute exagonae, 
sursum curvulae, 14 mill. longae, 3 mill. crassae; parte semi- 
nifera brevi, 4 mill. longa ad basin sita; parte apicali libera, 
4-5 mill. longa et pyramidata, angulosa sursum curvula, stylo 
Spinescenti flexuoso corneo terminata. Stigmata linearia sur- 
sum vergentia. 
Habitat:—In moist humus covered soil upon a steep for- 
ested ravine of Mt. Calelan at 1350 m. (4500 feet). Todaya 
(Mt. Apo), District of Davao, Island of Mindanao, August, 1909. 
Elmer Philip. pl. n. 11335. (Herb. Martelli). 
Usually in clusters of 1 to 3 stems; proproots 6 to 20 
feet high, from 3 to 5 inches thick; body 8 to 10 inches 
thick, comparatively short; branches nearly as long as the 
proproots, widely spreading, rebranched, the apical portion 
suberect, from 3 to 5 inches thick; conical spines very blunt; 
bark grayish; leaves erowded at the ends of the branches, 
in 3 spirally twisted rows, the basal portion ascending, the 
apical portion deflexed, deeply grooved upon the upper side 
especially toward the base, glaucous, green, the keel smooth 
beneath; margins serrate, sharply and stoutly so toward the base, 
the slenderly acuminate apex usually split; infrutescence arising 
from the apex, pendulous upon a subterete 1 inch thick 
recurved 1.5 foot long peduncle; bracts all gone; syncarpia 
about 15, scattering along the 4 feet long  yellowish green 
