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referred to it quite different plants, causing great confusion, to dispel which it 
is necessary to have a full series of specimens, and to make a general study of 
the entire group. 
I have in my herbarium many specimens of the true Pandanus polycephalus 
Lam., collected in Amboina, Ceram, Timor, etc., and some others from the 
Botanical Gardens at Buitenzorg and Singapore, kindly sent to me by Dr. Treub 
and Mr. Ridley; but the typical form has not yet been found in the Philippines, 
where, however, some species allied to it have been discovered. 
§ CRIST AT A Martelli. 
(20) Pandanus Cumingianus Martelli sp. nov. 
Racemus densus, 25 cm circiter longus, spathis longe acuminatis ut 
in Pandano polycephalo Lam. involucratus. Syncarpia conferta, ses- 
silia, parva, dum fere matura, 2.5 cm lata, 2-3 'em longa, ovato-subglo- 
bosa, trigona, faciebus subplanis; drupis c-onfertis, unilocularibus, 7 mm 
longis, 3-4 mm latis, basi subcuneatis, pentagonis vel hexagonis, apice 
rotundato-anguloso, abrupte in stylum brevem prominentem, eccentricum, 
transverse evolutum, contractis. Stigmate latiusculo, cristato. 
Negros, in the mountains, Cuming s. n. (in Herb. Mus. Brit.). 
This species is represented in the collections of the British Museum by two 
racemes only, of which Dr. Rendle kindly sent me a photograph. The syncarps 
unfortunately exhibit the drupes not quite mature, but I think this circumstance 
cannot affect their general aspect, except perhaps, only slightly the size of the 
drupes. The entire raceme, as regards its structure, appears like that of Panda- 
nus polycephalus Lam., but the characteristic shape of the stigmatiferous part, 
and also the stigma itself, are so peculiar as to suggest for this species a 
provisional section to be called “Cristata.” 
§ RYKIA. 
(21) Pandanus malatensis Blanco FI. Filip, ed. 2 (1845) 36. 
Folia verisimiliter bimetralia (integra non vidi), 6-7 cm lata, basin 
versus plicato-canaliculata, levia, caeterum utrimque longitudinaliter 
venulosa et transverse validiuscule tessellata, ex quo (in sicco) scabrida 
apparent; plicis lateralibus inermibus; margin ibus remote dentatis, basin 
versus dentibus validis divaricatis, latis, apicem versus mi nor ibus et 
adpressis; costa media tenuis, acuta, prominula, inermis, inferne levis et 
late rotundata, longo tract u spinis raris, dentibus marginalibus siinilibus 
sed recurvis, armata. Spathae sensim decrescentes, inferiores foliis simil- 
limae sed multo breviores, 80 cm longae, basin versus attenuatae, 
naviculares, apice lanceolato-attenuato-acuminatae et in longisslmum 
flagellum trigono-subulatum denticulatum protractae, plicis lateralibus 
inermibus, apice acute contl uentibus, costa media subtus apicem versus 
spinuloso-serrata, spathae apicales minores, ova to- 1 anceolatae vel ellip- 
ticae, breviter acuminatae, naviculares, acute carinatae, pulchre et 
utrimque longitudinaliter nervoso-striatae, marginibus et carina apicem 
versus tan turn denticulatis. Inflorescentia <? tantum nota, 50 cm et 
ultra longa, spicata; spiculae elongatae, crassae, a spathis involucratae ; 
