64 Robinson : Alabastra philippinensia 



Cebu ; yet in the Pflanzenreich the Philippines are not included in 

 its range, which is there given as northern China and Japan. 

 Recent collections of this species are Elmer 6382 and 8820, both 

 from Baguio, Province of Benguet, northern Luzon. 



PANDANACEAE 



Freycinetia Cumingiana Gaud. Bot. Voy. Bonite pL 37. f. 12- 



14; pi. 60. 1843, without description. 



F. luzonensis Warb. in Engler, Pflanzenreich 4° : 35. 1900. F. 



luzonensis Presl, Epimel. Bot. 238. 1851, in part only. 



Through the kindness of Prof. Wm. Trelease, I have been 

 able to examine a specimen of Cuming 1455, belonging to the 

 Bernhardi Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden. It is 

 upon this number that F. luzonensis was based and Presl's descrip- 

 tion makes it evident that it contained more than one species. 

 Comparison of ^he above-mentioned specimen with the descriptions 

 indicates that it is the true F. luzonensis Presl, and that the F. 

 luzonensis of recent Philippine botany is quite distinct. It seems 

 desirable therefore to take up for the latter Gaudichaud's older name, 

 which has hitherto remained unused, because originally unac- 

 companied by verbal description. 



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Pandanus glauciphyllus sp. nov. 



Section Bryantia : heads solitary, ovate in outline, 4.5-5.5 cnr 

 lon g. 3-5-4-5 cm - wide at base: drupes 200-300 in each head, 

 unilocular, 1 — 1.2 cm. long, 6 mm. wide at the top, 4-6-sided, in 

 dried material banded along the sides with yellow and orange, the 

 exposed portions shining, the stigma slightly umbonate within a 

 shallow depression. 



A plant about 3 m. in height, the stem dark-gray, brown, or 

 blackish, 25-40 cm. in diameter, with very short bracing roots, 

 sometimes scarcely evident : leaves 0.4-1 m. long, with an extreme 

 width of 2-2.6 cm., pale- or brownish-green above, glaucous 

 beneath, midrib narrow, depressed above, somewhat prominent 

 beneath, one vein on each side of the midrib conspicuous above, 

 barely visible beneath, uniting with the midrib 1-2 cm. from the 

 tip, the apical third of these two veins below their junction with 

 the midrib antrorsely spinulose ; midrib beneath antrorsely spinu- 

 lose along apical 8-15 cm. and usually retrorsely spinulose for 

 1.5-6 cm. at base; leaf-margins spinulose throughout, antrorsely 

 except sometimes near the base. 



