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(as Fouilloya ); and Inst. Sci. Madagascar, Mem. 
ser. B, 3(1): 97-100, 1951. The genus Foullioya 
Gaud., Bot. Voy. La Bonite, Atlas, pi. 26, figs. 
1-9, 21-24, (1843) [= 1841} was without de- 
scription and contained two species, hence was 
invalid. The earlier spellings of the generic and 
sectional name were all Fouilloya, except for 
that by Kurz in 1869, and Pichi-Sermolli ( 1951: 
100), who, after biographical investigation, cor- 
rected the spelling to Foullioya. He found no 
man named Fouilloy, but did learn of an as- 
sociate of Gaudichaud’s, the surgeon Foullioy, 
who served on a French naval expedition to 
Madagascar. From these facts, the correction in 
spelling by Pichi-Sermolli seems reasonable and 
permissible. The section contains five or six 
species from Madagascar. 
Lophostigma (Brongn.) Warb., in Engler’s 
Pflanzenreich IV, 9: 44, 71, 1900; genus Bryan- 
tia, section Lophostigma Brongn., Ann. Sci. Nat. 
Bot. VI, 1: 287, 1875. Lectotype: Bryantia 
viscida Brongn. = Pandanus viscidus (Brongn.) 
Solms, of New Caledonia. The section contains 
five species: New Caledonia (4), and Fiji (1). 
May sops, sect. nov. Drupis 1-carpellatis fusi- 
formibus vel suboblongis, stigmatibus lunatis 
sub margine petaso horizontale coriaceo integro 
vel lobato in apice sed asymmetrico, syncarpiis 
cylindraceis obtusis in bracteis naviculatis colora- 
tis multis toto amplectis, drupis luteis aurantiacis 
vel subroseis eis apicalibus praematuris. 
Drupes one-celled, fusiform to somewhat 
oblong; stigmas lunate, lateral under a horizon- 
tal, coriaceous, entire or lobed visor borne asym- 
metrically on the apical region of the drupe but 
not lateral; syncarps cylindric, obtuse, completely 
enwrapped in many boat-shaped, colored bracts; 
drupes yellow, orange, or pink, ripening serially, 
the apical ones first and shedding in this order. 
HOLOTYPUS: P. Zea St. John, from Queens- 
land, Australia, described in this paper. Other 
species are: from the Solomon Is., P. lampro- 
cephalus; from New Guinea, P. cernuifolius, 
P. floribundus, P. Kivi, P. Krauelianus, P. mi - 
crodontus, P. xantho carpus; from Amboina, P. 
amhoinensis; and the writer has four more un- 
described species from New Guinea. Other 
species that have the fruit and stigmatic char- 
acters, but have ovoid syncarps and lack the 
numerous sheathing, colored bracts, are: P. 
Joskei of Fiji; P. aggregatus and P. Archboldi- 
anus of New Guinea; and P. Beccarii of the Aru 
Is. These should probably be included in this 
section, though they lack some of the characters. 
The sectional name is formed from the epithet 
Mays of Zea Mays , plus the Greek ops, appear- 
ance, because of the striking resemblance of 
the fruit of these species of Pandanus to an ear 
of corn or maize in its husk. 
Microstigma Kurz, Jour. Bot. Brit, and For. 
5: 104-105, 1867. Lectotype: P. ceramicus 
Rumph., Herb. Amb. 4: 149, pi. 79, 1743 - 
P. conoideus Lam., Encyc. Meth. Bot. 1: 372, 
1783. Bryantia (Webb in Gaud.) Warb. in 
Engler’s Pflanzenreich IV, 9: 68, 1900, was based 
on the genus Bryantia Webb in Gaud., Bot. 
Voy. La Bonite, Atlas, pi. 20, (1843) [= 1841}, 
published without description, but monotypic 
and with a figure showing details. Its holotype 
was B. butyrophora Webb in Gaud. = P. conoi- 
deus Lam. (1783). Here, also reduced to syn- 
onymy, is the section Sussea Warb., Engler’s 
Pflanzenreich IV, 9: 44, 62, 1900, since its 
alleged characters do not hold and no new de- 
pendable differences have been found. Lecto- 
type: Sussea conoidea Gaud., Bot. Voy. La 
Bonite, Atlas, pi. 24, figs. 1-12, 1841 = P. mon- 
tanus Bory. The enlarged section now contains 
98 species, and occurs in: west Africa (8 spe- 
cies), east Africa (3), Madagascar (20), Sey- 
chelles ( 1 ) , Reunion ( 1 ) , Mauritius (4) , India 
( 1 ) , Burma ( 1 ) , Malaya ( 2 ) , Philippines (19), 
Indonesia (10), New Guinea (17), Admiralty 
Is. ( 1 ) , Bismarck Arch. ( 5 ) , Solomon Is. (6) , 
D’Entrecasteaux Is. ( 1 ) , and the New Hebrides 
(1). 
Pulvinistigma Mart ell i (as Pulvistigma) 
emend. Kanehira, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 12 
(12): 369-370, pi. 48, 1930. Type: P. Durio 
Martelli. The emendation by Kanehira was pub- 
lished in the Jap. Jour. Bot. 14: 435, 1938. He 
pointed out that as Martelli had said (1930: 
370), "The stigmas are thickly covered with 
short hairs that form a small cushion.” The name 
Pulvistigma would seem to have been derived 
from the Latin pulvis, but this means dust, and 
is inappropriate. On the other hand, the Latin 
word pulvinus rn^ans a cushion, and this exactly 
