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5 cm. in diameter, tlie bark smootli, dull gray, somewhat scaly, the branches 

 3 to 5, terminating the trunk, ascending. Leaves 1 to 1.2 m. long, 3 to 4 

 cm. wide below, gradually narrowed upwards to the apex, the margins 

 antrorsely toothed throughout, the midrib on the upper surface glabrous, 

 beneath with scattered antrorse teeth or in part glabrous, the lateral nerves 

 on the upper surface sparingly antrorsely toothed in the upper part of 

 the leaf, beneath glabrous. Raceme 25 cm. long or less, erect, the heads 

 crowded, short pedunculate, each subtended by a broad bract, the lower 

 bracts acuminate, exceeding the raceme, the upper ones much shorter, triang- 

 ular acute, the margins and midrib finely serrate toothed. Drupes closely 

 packed, about 75 in each fruit, obovate, irregularly 5 to 6 angled, 1.5 

 cm. long, 0.8 to 1.2 mm. thick above, tapering from near the apex to the 

 cuneate base, tlie apex abruptly rounded or convexly subpyramidal, striate, 

 the stigmas plane, 2 mm. in diameter, the loculi 2 to 4 in each drupe. 



Type specimen No. 5840 (A. D. E. Elmer), Baguio, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, March, 1904. Growing in open grass lands along streams in the 

 pine region, not common. Staminate flowers were observed by the collector 

 in July, but could not be preserved. 

 Pandanus caudatus sp. nov. ^ Eeiira. 



A tree 7 to 8 m. high, with solitary, pendant, subglobose or ellipsoid 

 fruits about 17 cm. long, the leaves tapering above to the slender caudate- 

 acuminate apex. Trimk 25 cm. in diameter, with yellowish bark, beset 

 with small scattered conical spines, the aerial roots wide spreading, 2 to 

 3 m. long, the few short branches crowded at the apex of the trunk. Leaves 

 1.2 to 1.8 m. long, about 5 cm. wide, the margins antrorsely toothed 

 throughout, the midrib above glabrous, beneath finely antrorsely toothed, 

 the two lateral nerves antroisely toothed on the upper surface for the 

 upper third of the leaf, the caudate apex antrorsely toothed, about G cm. 

 long. Fruit yellowish red, fragrant, about 17 cm. long, nearly as thick, 

 with GO or 70 or more driipes, the pediuicle about 30 cm. long. Drupes 

 about cm. long, 2.5 to 3 cm. thick, irregularly 4 to G angled, obovate, 

 tapering below to the nearly cuneate base, scarcely or slightly narrowed 

 at the apex which is truncate, flattened, the apex about 1.5 cm. wide, and 

 3 cm. long, sulcate, the sulci between the loculi about 5 mm. deep ; loculi 

 irregularly disposed, 10 to 12 in each drupe, their apices irregular convexly 

 conical; stigmas 1 to 2 mm. in diameter, more or less oblique. 



Type specimen No. 6143 (A. D. E. Elmer), Sablan, Province of Benguet, 

 Luzon, April, 1904. Not common, in thickets along streams. 

 Pandanus simplex sp. nov. % Brayantia. 



An erect, luibranched tree about 6 m. high, the leaves about 3 m. long 

 and 11 cm. wide, the fruit solitary, cylindrical or subglobose, about 9 

 cm. in diameter. Margins of the leaves toothed, the teeth below, stout and 

 distant 2 to 3 cm., above small and close, the midrib beneath with scattered 

 teeth, above glabrous. Peduncle stout, triangular, 3 to 3.5 cm. thick. 

 Drupes 1 -celled, 3 cm. long, about 1 cm. thick, many, obovoid, the basal 

 portion 2 cm. long, compressed, angular, narrowed below, the apical portion 

 angular, subpyi-amidal, the tip smooth and roimded, scarcely truncate. 

 Stigma plain, sessile, sublateral, about 2 mm. in diameter. 



