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is an interesting Australian type, the genus being confined to 

 Australia with the exception of the Javan C. javajiicus Boerl. 

 & Koord., which is now also recorded from Luzon. Another 

 interesting Australian type, previously known only from Aus- 

 tralia and Formosa, is Ipomoea polymorpha Roem. & Schultes, 

 now recorded from two localities in northern Luzon. 



PANDANACEAE 



PAN DAN us Linnaeus 

 PANDANUS PANAYENSIS sp. nov. § Vinsonia. 



Erectus, circiter 5 m altus; foliis crassissime coriaceis, rigi- 

 dis, circiter 2.5 m longis, 7 cm latis, basi leviter inflatis et 11 

 cm latis, apice angustatis, vix acuminatis, margine, basi et apice 

 exceptis, dentibus rigidis armatis ; inf ructescentiis pendulis, syn- 

 carpiis 4, ellipsoideis ad oblongis, racemose dispositis, 12 ad 20 

 cm longis, 8 ad 10 cm diametro ; drupis numerosis, | superioribus 

 liberis, utrinque subaequaliter angustatis, obscure 5-angulatis, 

 circiter 4 cm longis, 5- ad 10-locellatis, apice truncatis, 5 ad 

 8 mm diametro, inter loculis leviter sulcatis ; stigmatibus planis, 

 subreniformibus, circiter 1.5 mm diametro. 



Erect, about 5 m high. Leaves very thickly coriaceous, rigid, 

 about 2.5 m long, the base slightly inflated, about 11 cm wide, 

 soon narrowed to about 7 cm and about this width for most 

 of their length, apex narrowed, scarcely acuminate, the apical 

 and basal margins unarmed, the margins otherwise with distinct, 

 sharp, rigid teeth which gradually decrease in size upward, the 

 midrib on the lower surface armed with short scattered teeth 

 in the median and upper parts. Infructescences peduncled, pen- 

 dulous, their peduncles up to 40 cm in length, 3-angled, about 

 1.5 cm in diameter. Syncarps 4, ellipsoid to oblong, 12 to 20 

 cm long, 8 to 10 cm in diameter, the peduncles of the lateral 

 ones stout, verj' short, of the terminal one up to 8 cm in length. 

 Drupes very numerous, the upper one-half free, subequally nar- 

 rowed to both base and apex, about 4 cm long, 1.5 to 2 cm in 

 diameter, somewhat 5-angled, usually 5- to 10-celled, the apex 

 truncate, 5 to 8 mm in diameter, slightly sulcate between the 

 loculi, the sulci about 1 mm deep. Stigmas plane, orbicular to 

 somewhat reniform, about 1.5 mm in diameter. 



Panay, Capiz Province, Mount Macosolon, Bur. Sci. 30796 

 Ramos & Edafio, April 22, 1918, on forested slopes. 



This species resembles Pandanus philipjyinensis Merr., from 

 which it is distinguished especially by its diff"erently shaped 

 Byncarps, the drupes of which are free in the upper one-half 



