PHILIPPINE SPECIES OF PANDANUS. 
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The differences between this form and the type are to be found in the phalanges, 
which are longer, flatter, and sometimes more swollen in the middle. The top of 
the phalanges is quite level and with a rather rounded margin. The number of 
the pyramidal locules is variable: in the specimens collected by Mr. Bolster the 
furrows between the locules are not so deep as in the type. In forma Ahernianus 
the phalanges in the syncarp are free one from another in their upper half or a 
little less than half. The leaves do not seem to be different from those of the 
type. 
(5) Pandanus Vidalii Martelli sp. nov. 
Arbor 9-12 m alta. Folia ultra bimetralia, 8 cm lata, coriacea, 
sursum attenuata, apice obtusiuscula, per totam longitudinem plicata, 
plicis lateralibus inernribus, utrimque longitudinaliter crebre minuteque 
nervulosa, ad basiu levia dentibus marginalibus inferioribus robustis, 
latis, subinaequalibus, aeutis, patulis, superioribus multo minoribus 
crebrioribus aeutis, sursum eurvatis, adpressis; costa media tenui, acute 
prominenti, prope basin crebrerrime retroflexe spinulosa, spinis inaequa- 
libus, caeterum inermi, in parte apicali spinis minutis, gradatim 
remotiusculis, aeutis, erecto-adpressis munita. Syncarpium solitarium, 
pedunculo 30 cm longo suffultum, ovatum, 12 cm longurn, 10 cm latum. 
Phalanges munerosae, tetra- penta- vel liexagonae, 3.5 cm longae, 1.5-2 
cm latae, in dimidia superiori poarte liberae et divaricatae, in meclio 
leviter infiatae, infra obpyramidatae et basin versus sensim attenuatae, 
in vertice truncatae et planae, loculis 8 vel 9, parvis, pyramidatis, sulcis 
interlocularibus profundis, stigmate hypocrepiformi terminates. 
Luzon, Province of Bataan, Limay Peak, Whitford 1325 (type), May, 1905, 
above 850 m alt., at the head of the Lamao River. 
This species is easily distinguishable from Pandanus tectorius Sol., and 
Pandanus exaltatus Blanco, by the form of the phalanges which have their upper 
half free and very divaricate, by the small but deep locules, and even by some 
characteristics of the leaves. It seems to me that the figures representing the 
syncarp, the separate phalanges and section, in Vidal “Flora Forestal de Pilipi- 
nas” tab. 95, fig. A (under Pandanus odoratissimus) , belong to this new species. 
It is true that the leaves are represented as very small and quite different from 
those of the species here described, but the plate seems to me not to have been 
drawn very scientifically and therefore it is easy to account for the want of propor- 
tion in the leaves. It is to be regretted that the figures in the “Flora Forestal” 
are not accompanied by a description of the plant. I have named this Pandanus 
in memory of the clever botanist Seflor Sebastian Vidal, who died prematurely 
after having contributed much to our knowledge of the Philippine Flora. 
(G) Pandanus coronatus Martelli sp. nov. 
Folia juniora fere 1 m longa, cireiter 14 cm lata, subcoriacea, longe 
flagellato-attenuata, supra nitida, subtus minute longitudinaliter venosa, 
ad margines dentibus validis, aeutis, ereeto-patentibus armata; costa 
media dentibus (marginalibus simillimis sed minoribus ac remotioribus) 
basin versus retroflex! s armata. Syncarpium globosum, fere 14 cm 
diam. Phalanges cireiter 50, 3.5 cm longae, 2.5-3 cm latae, irre- 
gulariter acute pentagonae, usque ad tertiam inferiorem partem liberae, 
