THE PHILIPPINE 
Journal of Science 
C. Botany 
Vol. XIII SEPTEMBER, 1918 No. 5 
NEW OR NOTEWORTHY PHILIPPINE PLANTS, XIV 
By E. D. Merrill 1 
{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 
1 Professor of botany, University of the Philippines. 
2 Philip. Journ. Sci. 13 (1918) Bot. 1-66. t 
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