PHILIPPINE SPECIES OF PANDA NFS. 
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involucratus (in specimine suppetenti spathae delapsae sunt) ; pedun- 
culus subgracil is, 5 cm longus, 7 mm crassus, trigonus ; syncarpia ad 4, 
conferta, ovata, 4 cm longa, 3 cm diam. Drupae numerosae, confertae, 
parvae, 12 mm longae, 5-7 mm latae, pentagonae vet hexagonae, basi 
angustato-cuneatae, apice libero, rotundato anguloso, vert-ice areolato, 
subconcavo; stigmate eccentrico, snbpla.no, sessili, elongato, 5 mm longo, 
subrotun dato-bi lobo ; endocarpio osseo, 6 mm longo, cuneato; mesocarpio 
supero, ejus caverna 1 mm alta. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Davao, Copeland 3S6, March, 1904 (in Herb. 
Bur. Sci.). 
(19) Pandanus brevispathus Martelli sp. nov. 
Arbor 3 m alta, corona foliorum apicali ornata. Folia bimetralia, 
4 cm lata, basi dilatata amplexicaulia, apice sensim attenuato-acuminata, 
in pagina inferiori glauca et minutissime longitudinal iter venuloso- 
striata ; supra plicata, plicis lateralibus apicem versus irregulariter 
parceque aculeatis ; marginibus crebre et validiuscule serrato-dentatis ; 
costa media e basi usque ad medium subtilissima, inermi, dein prominula, 
angusta, acuta, apicem versus crebre et acute serrulata. Syncarpii 
pedunculus brevis, 6-7 cm longus, trigonus, 1 cm crassus, spathis 
numerosis, coriaceis, arete involucratus. Spathae inferiores brevissimae, 
triangulari-lanceolato-acuminatae, basi late amplectentes, cymbaeformes, 
caeterae sensim in a. j ores, e quibus intermediae elongato-lanceolatae syn- 
carpium subaequantes, plus minus acute carinatae, marginibus et carina, 
apicem versus tantum, serratis; spathae superiores syncarpium involu- 
crantes, 4 cm latae, subcoriaceae, ovato-elongatae, apice rotundatae, 
acutiusculae, carina et marginibus creberrime ciliato-serrato-dentatis. 
Syncarpium ovato-globosum, 3-4.5 cm diam.; drupae numerosae, con- 
fertae, polygonae, basi anguste cuneatae, 15 mm longae, 4—5 mm latae, 
apice libero pyramidato-rotundato, in summo vertice concavae, areolatae, 
gibbosulae ; stigmate subeccentrico, piano, sessili, 2 mm lato, subro- 
' tundato-bilobo. Endocarpium osseum, 9 mm longum, mesocarpium 
superum, ejus lacuna 3 mm longa. 
Mindanao, District of Davao, Davao, Copeland 1)42, March, 1904, in jungles 
in the Barringtonia formation. 
A species of the section Bryantia, very different from Pandanus lateralis, Trom 
which it is easily distinguishable by its solitary syncarp and by the shape of 
the spathes. Pandanus brevispathus is closely related to a species collected by 
Dr. Beccari at Kandari in Celebes, which Count Solms-Laubach in Ann. Jard. 
Bot. Buitenzorg 3 (1883) 90, has referred to Pandanus Kurzianus Sol ms, 
although in my opinion not correctly. 
Copeland’s specimen, on which I have founded this species was identified by 
Mr. Merrill as Pandanus polycephalus Lam., from which it seems to me to be 
quite distinct. The group of Pandanus -polycephalus Lam. embraces several 
distinct species, very similar, however, to one another. In consequence of the 
incompleteness of Lamarck’s description of that species, different authorities have 
