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length, about 10 cm wide, thickly coriaceous, the marginal teeth 
below coarse, spreading, above finer and ascending, the midrib 
on the lower surface in the upper part with small antrorse teeth. 
Infructescences terminal, pendulous, the rachis 2 to 3 cm in dia- 
meter, the heads about 9, oblong-ellipsoid or oblong-ovoid, about 
18 cm long and 10 cm in diameter. Drupes numerous, obovoid, 
angular, 3.5 to 5 cm long, 2 to 2.5 cm wide, 9- to 15-celled, the 
apical parts with rounded shoulders, the tip truncate and 1 
to 1.5 cm in diameter, shallowly sulcate between the tips of 
the loculi, the latter irregularly conical, 2 mm long or less and 
at most 4 mm in diameter at their bases. Stigmas scarcely ob- 
lique, rounded or reniform, 1 to 1.5 mm in diameter, usually 
depressed in the center. 
Catanduanes, Bur. Sci. 30462 Ramos, December 10, 1917, in damp 
forests. 
This species is remarkable for its habit, being tall and unbranched, and 
for its pendulous spikelike racemes of numerous syncarps. It belongs in 
the same group as Pandanus radicans Blanco and P. botryoides Martelli, 
from both of which it is readily distinguished by its more numerous 
syncarps, larger drupes, and much more numerous stigmas and loculi. 
PANDANUS BILIRANENSIS sp. nov. § Vinsonia. 
Arbor circiter 7 m alta; foliis circiter 2.5 m longis et 6 cm 
latis, acuminatis; syncarpiis solitariis, globosis, ut videtur circi- 
ter 20 cm diametro ; drupis numerosis, circiter 7 cm longis, ple- 
rumque circiter 3 cm diametro, 5- vel 6-locellatis, 5- vel 6- 
angulatis, in f inferiore parte angustatis, apice subpyramidatis, 
late rostratis, extremitate 5 ad 8 mm diametro, planis vel leviter 
concavis; stigmatibus 5 vel 6, planis, confluentibus. 
A tree about 7 m high. Leaves about 2.5 cm long and 6 cm 
wide, coriaceous, narrowed upward to the acuminate apex, the 
margins toothed throughout, the teeth much more prominent in 
the lower 50 cm than above, the midrib near the tip minutely 
toothed on the lower surface. Syncarps solitary, globose, ap- 
parently pendulous, and about 20 cm in diameter. Drupes large, 
numerous, about 7 cm long, mostly about 3 cm in diameter, 5- 
or 6-angled, 5- or 6-celled, narrowed below from the upper three- 
fourths, the upper one-fourth subpyramidal, broadly rostrate, 
the tip plane or slightly concave, 5 to 8 mm in diameter, the 
stigmas 5 or 6, confluent, plane, quite covering the tip of the 
syncarp. 
Bilikan, Bur. Sci. 18895 McGregor, June 20, 1914, in forests, altitude 
about 300 meters. 
In the form and aspect of the drupes, except in their broadly rostrate 
apices and plane, confluent stigmas covering the truncate tips, this species 
is suggestive of Pandanus dubius Spreng., but it does not belong in the 
