1. NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, III. 



By ELMER D. MERRILL, Botanist. 



Two previous articles have been published under this title, 

 Bureau of Government Laboratories publications G and 17, the 

 third and present paper having been prepared as material and data 

 became available. In order to facilitate reference to the preceding 

 papers, a full index to all species considered in the three publica- 

 tions has been included in the present one. 



PANDANACE2E. 



Sararanga philippinensis, sp. nov. 



An erect tree 6 to 8 m. high, branched at the top, the inflorescence a 

 long compound panicle 100 to 120 cm. long. Leaves about 2 m. long, 7 

 cm. wide, the margins stoutly antrorsely toothed throughout, the midrib 

 beneath antrorsely toothed, above glabrous. Axis and branches of the 

 inflorescence densely grayish stellate pubescent throughout. Flowers un- 

 known. Fruit yellowish, glabrous, 6 to 8 mm. wide, 5 mm. long, subreniform, 

 sulcate between the pyrenes when dry, subtended by a discoid entire or 

 slightly lobed calyx-like bract, sessile, the stigmas small, about 16, arranged 

 in two parallel rows along the median portion of the fruit. Pyrenes 3 mm. 

 long, 2 mm. wide, thin, broadly ovate, both ends rounded, about 16 in each 

 fruit, arranged in two parallel rows. 



Type specimen No. 749. (H. N. Whitford. ) Tinuan River, Province of 

 Tayabas (Infanta), Luzon, September 4, 1904. Growing in forests along 

 the seashore at 3 to 5 m. above the sea. 



This genus was based on a single species from New Guinea, and the 

 discovery of a second species in the Philippines is of special interest. 

 Pandanus pallidus, sp. nov. Sussea. 



A small shrub 2 m. high or less, with elongated leaves, which are 

 gradually narrowed upward to the long, slender, acute, scarcely acuminate 

 apex, the fruits globose, 4 to 5 cm. in diameter, dull white when mature, 

 5 to 7 crowded in a dense, erect raceme about 24 cm. long. Trunk erect, 



