recurved, nearly or quite entii’e helow, above with few small scattered 
teeth which are not spine-like. Heads about 1.5 cm. in diameter, 
globose, the peduncles from the apices of the l)ranches 1 to 1.5 cm. long. 
Drupes many, hut most of them aborted, narrowly ovoid, about 8 mm. 
long, narrowed ahove'into a rostrate apex about 2 mm. long. Stigmas 4. 
iMixdaxao, Lake Laiiao, Camp Keitliley (475 Mrs. Clemens) April, 190(1. 
PAN DAN US Linn. 
Pandanus dementis Merrill sp. nov. ^ Sussea. (PI. I.) 
tree about 10 m. high, branched above, with ovoid, 3 to 4.5 cm. long 
heads, arranged in terminal condensed spikes, al)Out 8 heads in each spike, 
each head sulitended liy a large hroadly-ovate to oblong-ovate, acute or 
very shortly alnmptly acuminate bract, the drupes .indefinite, 10 to 
13 mm. long. Ultimate branches about 1.5 cm. in diameter. Leaves 
()0 cm. long or more, 3 to 3.5 cm. wide, the margins with small antrorse 
spines throughout, the midrib al)Ove glaljrous, beneath at the base with 
a few retrorse spines and near the apex finely antrorsely denticulate, 
the apex short acuminate. Heads red when mature, ovoid, obtuse, 
obscurely obtusely 3-angled, 3 to 4.5 cm. long, 3.5 to 3 cm. in diameter, 
the bracts gradually smaller upwards, 4 to 6 cm. long, 3 to 4 cm. wide, 
acute or very shortly acuminate, serrulate on the keel and margins above. 
Drupes very many in each head, 10 to 13 mm. long, 3 to 4 mm. thiclc 
above, gradually narrowed l)elow, somewhat angular, the apical portion 
convex, slightly ribbed. Stigma terminal, central, 1 to 1.5 mm. in 
diameter. 
(Mindanao, Lake Laiiao, Camp Keitliley [Mrs. Clemens) March, 1900. Altitude 
about 800 111 . , 
GK a:\iine.l:. 
ANTHOXANTHUM Unn. 
Anthoxanthum luzoniense Meirill sp. nov. 
Erect, glabrous, 40 to 00 cm. high, very fragant in drying. Culms 
glabrous; nodes slightly ])uhescent with short appressed hairs; sheaths 
usually exceeding the internodes, often loose, the margins above slightly 
])ul)escent; ligule broad, ovate, olituse, iiregularly cleft or lacerate, hya- 
line, about 4 mm. long; blades 11 to 18 cm. long, 4 to 5 mm. wide, 
glabrous, smooth, flat or revolute when dry. Panicles exserted, rather 
dense, many -flowered, 6 to 8 cm. long, 1 to 1.5 cm. in diameter, the 
lower branches about 3 cm. long, appressed-ascending, densely flowered. 
First glume hyaline except the median portion, ovate, acuminate, 3 to 
4 mm. long, 1-nerved ; second glume 5 to 0 mm. long, 3-nerved, glabrous, 
oblong ovate, al)niptly subtruncate-acuminate. Flowering glumes 3, the 
first and second neuter, slightly puliescent, the first about 5 mm. long, 
;!-norved, cleft at the ajiex for about | its length, awned in the cleft, the 
awn scabrous, straight, about 1.3 mm. long; second flowering glume 
