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lateral nerves on the upper surface toward the apex, the apex 
acute in very young leaves, in mature ones cleft into two short 
lobes, the lobes oblong-ovate, acute or acuminate, up to 1.5 cm 
long, their margins toothed. Syncarps solitary, terminal, glo- 
bose, about 8 cm in diameter, the peduncles about 10 , 0 X 1 long, 
apparently pendulous. Drupes numerous, crowded, about 3 cm 
long, 1 to 2 cm wide, narrowed below, 5- or 6-celled, angular, 
the apical part cleft between the loculi, the individual terminal 
parts of the loculi 5 to 10 mm long, angular, narrowed upward; 
stigmas somewhat oblique, 2 to 3 mm in diameter, prominently 
depressed in the center. 
Catanduanes, on forested slopes along the Santo Domingo River, Bur. 
Sci. 30^89 Ramos, December 5, 1917. 
A species well characterized by being nearly acaulescent, in habit closely 
approximating Pandanus brachypodws Martelli, but with solitary syncarps 
and entirely different drupes. 
PANDANUS PHILIPPINENSIS sp. nov. § Keura. 
Arbor circiter 10 m alta ; foliis usque ad 2.2 m longis, circiter 
9 cm latis, sursum angustatis, acuminatis; syncarpiis circiter 6, 
spicatim dispositis, confertis, subglobosis ad subellipsoideis, 
circiter 11 cm longis; drupis numerosis, confertis, circiter 3.5 cm 
longis, plerumque circiter 1.5 cm diametro, angulatis, 5- ad 8- 
locellatis, partibus £ superioribus liberis, subpyramidatis, ex- 
tremitate truncatis, circiter 1 cm diametro, loculorum apices 
pyramidales, 5 ad 7 mm longis, sulcis distinctis separati ; stigma- 
tibus obliquis. 
A tree about 10 m high. Leaves coriaceous, about 2.2 m 
long and 9 cm wide, the margins toothed throughout, the midrib 
on the lower surface with scattered teeth in the upper part of 
the leaf, the lateral veins here distinct, one on each side of the 
midrib, unarmed. Syncarps usually 6, arranged in a dense 
spike, subglobose to subellipsoid. Drupes numerous, crowded, 
about 3.5 cm long, mostly about 1.5 cm in diameter, 5- to 8-celled, 
angular, narrowed below, the upper one-fourth free, narrowed 
upward, the apex truncate and about 1 cm in diameter, the apices 
of the loculi pyramidal, 5 to 7 mm long, the sulci between them 
distinct, narrow; stigmas oblique, about 1.5 mm in diameter. 
Luzon, Nueva Vizcaya Province, Campote, Bur. Sci. 11289 McGregor, 
March, 1912, on forested hillsides. 
This species is well characterized by its crowded, spicately arranged 
syncarps, and the narrowly pyramidal free apices of the loculi of the 
drupes. In vegetative characters it is suggestive of Pandanus exaltatus 
Blanco, but is totally different from that species in its numerous syncarps, 
and in the details of the individual drupes. 
