1. xNEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS. IIL 



By Elmer D. Merrill, Botanist. 



Two previous articles have been piil)lislied under this title. 

 Bureau of Government Laboratories publications G and IT,, the 

 third and present paper Jiaving been prepared as material and data 

 became available. In order to facilitate reference to the preceding 

 papers, a full index to all species considered in the three publica- 

 tions has been included in the present one. 



PANDANACE.E. 



Sararanga philippinensis, sp. nov. 



An erect tree 6 to 8 in. high, branclied at the top, the inflorescence a 

 long compound panicle 100 to 120 cm. long. Leaves about 2 m. long. 7 

 cm. wide, the margins stoutly antrorsely toothed throughout, tlie midrib 

 beneath antrorsely toothed, above glabrous. Axis and branches of the 

 inflorescence densely grayish stellate pubescent throughout. Flowers un- 

 known. Fruit yellowish, glabrous, 6 to 8 mm. wide, 5 mm. long, subreniform, 

 suleate between the pyrenes when dry, subtended by a discoid entire or 

 slightly lobed calyx-like bract, sessile, the stigmas small, about 10, arranged 

 in two parallel rows along the median portion of the fruit. Pyrenes 3 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. wide, thin, broadly ovate, both ends rounded, about 10 in each 

 fruit, arranged in two parallel rows. 



Tvi)e specimen Xo. 74!). (H. N. \\'hitford.) Tinuan River. Province of 

 Tayabas (Infanta), Luzon. September 4, 1904. Growing in forests along 

 the seashore at 3 to 5 m. above the sea. 



This genus was based on a single species from New Guinea, and the 

 discovery of a second species in the Philippines is of special interest. 

 Pandanus pallidus, sp. nov. ^ Sussca. 



A small shrub 2 m. high or less, with elongated loaves, \\liic1i are 

 gradually narrowed upward to the long, slender, acute, scarcely acuminate 

 apex, the fruits globose, 4 to 5 cm. in diameter, dull white when mature. 

 .5 to 7 crowded in a dense, erect raceme about 24 em. long. Trunk erect, 



