THE PHILIPPINE 



Journal of Science 



C. Botany 

 Vol. XIII SEPTEMBER, 1918 No. 5 



NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, XIV 



By E. D. Merrill^ 



(From the Botanical Section of the Biological Laboratory, Bureau of 

 Science, Manila, P. I.) 



The last number of this series was published early in the pre- 

 sent year.2 The present paper contains the descriptions of 

 one new genus of the Araliaceae and of eighty-four new species 

 distributed in twenty-six families. In addition to these pro- 

 posed new species a few forms previously described from extra- 

 Philippine material are for the first time credited to the Archi- 

 pelago, and a few changes in nomenclature are proposed. The 

 present paper is, therefore, essentially similar to the preceding 

 ones of the series. 



PANDANACEAE 



PAN DAN us Linnaeus 



PANDANUS SUBACAULIS sp. nov. § Keura. 



Frutex humile, subacaule; foliis circiter 70 cm longis et 5 cm 

 latis, acutis vel breviter lobatis, lobis usque ad 1.5 cm longis; 

 pedunculis terminalibus ; syncarpiis solitariis, globosis, circiter 

 8 cm diametro; drupis numerosis, circiter 3 cm longis, 5- vel 

 6-locellatis, apice sulcatis; stigmatibus 2 ad 3 mm diametro, 

 leviter obliquis in centro valde depresso. 



A low shrub, practically acaulescent, the trunk, entirely cov- 

 ered by the imbricate leaf -bases, 20 cm in length or less. Leaves 

 numerous, about 70 cm long and 5 cm wide, the margins armed 

 with numerous, antrorse, conspicuous teeth about 2 mm in length, 

 with similar ones on the midrib beneath and along the two 



* Professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 

 "Philip. Journ. Sci. 13 (1918) Bot. 1-66. 



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