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densely covered by spirally arranged, very numerous, imbricating, 

 coriaceous, rigid, oblong, entire or slightly toothed bracts, 2 

 to 3 cm in length. Syncarps 8 to 10, red, spicately arranged, 

 rather crowded, ovoid, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, composed of numerous, 

 densely arranged, 1-celled drupes which are 3 mm or less in 

 diameter, their apices abruptly narrowed, somewhat ridged, 

 terminated by the slender, entire or slightly toothed, rigid, 

 straight or somewhat curved styles which are up to 5 mm in 

 length. 



Mindanao, Surigao Province, Bur. Sci. 34571 (type), 3^^819 

 Ramos & Pascasio, April 25, 1919, at the iron deposit on the 

 northeast coast on the Hegapit River, altitude about 680 meters. 

 The fruit red when mature. 



A remarkable spfecies, not closely allied to any previously 

 described Philippine form and easily recognizable by its lateral, 

 spicate inflorescences; by its small, ovoid syncarps, the tips of 

 the drupes narrowed and elongated; and by the multibracteate 

 peduncles. 



PAN DAN us RAM OS 1 1 sp. nov. § Bryantia. 



Frutex, 2 ad 3 m altus, ramulis ultimis circiter 1.5 cm dia- 

 metro; foliis crasse coriaceis, linearis, circiter 1.5 m longis, 2 

 ad 2.5 cm latis, apice tenuiter acuminatis; syncarpiis termina- 

 libus, erectis, solitariis, ovoideis, 5 ad 6 cm longis, pedunculo 

 usque ad 20 cm longo, circiter 7 mm diametro ; drupis numerosis, 

 1-locellatis, 10 ad 12 mm longis, circiter 3 mm diametro, anguste 

 oblongis, i superioribus liberis, rotundatis, stigma sessile, pla- 

 num, circiter 1.3 mm diametro. 



A shrub, 2 to 3 m high, the ultimate branches about 1.5 cm 

 in diameter. Leaves thickly coriaceous, rigid, rather pale when 

 dry, linear, about 1.2 m long, 2 to 2.5 cm wide, narrowed above 

 to the rather slender, acuminate apex, the margins distinctly 

 toothed, the midrib on the lower surface in the upper part more 

 or less toothed as are the 2 primary veins on the upper surface 

 toward the apex. Syncarps terminal, erect, solitary, ovoid, 5 

 to 6 cm long, somewhat triangular in cross section, the basal 

 part somewhat inclosed by a few, broadly ovate, leaflike bracts, 

 the peduncles up to 20 cm long, triangular, about 7 mm in 

 diameter, supplied with 2 or 3 reduced leaves 25 to 40 cm in 

 length in addition to the terminal, leaflike bracts. Drupes very 

 numerous, crowded, red, 1-celled, 10 to 12 mm long, about 3 nun 

 in diameter, narrowly oblong, the apical half free, somewhat 

 angular, rather abruptly rounded or narrowed at the apex and 

 terminated by the flat, sessile, truncate stigma, which is usually 

 about 1.3 mm in diameter. 



