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DR. O. STAPF ON SARARANGA SINUOSA. 479: 
On the structure of the female flower and fruit gf Sararanga 
sinuosa, Hemsl. (Pandanacee). By O. Si¥pr, Dr. Phil., 
Assistant for India, Kew Herbarium; with an amended 
description of the genus and the species, by W. Bortine 
Hremstey, A.L.S., F.R.S., Principal Assistant, Herbarium, 
Kew. (Communicated by the President.) 
[Read 19th March, 1896. | 
Priates IV-VII. 
Introduction, p. 479 ; the Female Flower, p. 480 ; the Fruit, p. 485 ; Affinities 
with Pandanus, p. 486 ; Re-description of the Genus and Species, p. 488 ; 
Explanation of Plates, p. 489. 
In the Journal of this Society (Botany), vol. xxx. (1893) 
p. 216, t. 11, Mr. W. Botting Hemsley described a new genus 
of Pandanacesw, Sararanga, the only species belonging to it 
being S. sinuwosa, Hemsl. The description and the figures were 
made from a dried specimen, gathered by Dr. H. B. Guppy, in 
Fauro Island, Solomon Group. The plant had already pre- 
viously been collected by Dr. O. Beccari in Jobi Island, off the 
north-west coast of New Guinea; but the condition of his 
specimens was such that little could be said about them save 
that they evidently belonged to a new genus of Pandanacee. 
(See Count Solms-Laubach, in Engl. u. Prantl. Natiirl. Pflan- 
zenfam, Th. i. Abth. u. p. 191.) Since the publication of the 
description of Sararanga further material has been received, 
consisting of leaves and female flowers and fruits gathered by 
the officers of H.M.S. “ Penguin,’’ Commander A. F. Balfour, in 
New Georgia, and presented to Kew by Admiral Wharton, C.B., 
Hydrographer to the Admiralty. There are also some photo- 
graphs showing the habit of the tree, and a description, drawn 
up by Lieutenants B. T. Somerville and 8. C. Weigall, was 
communicated to the Herbarium, Kew [cf. Kew Bulletin (1895), 
pp. 159, 273]. The flowering and fruiting specimens from 
New Georgia consisted of portions of the female inflorescence, 
and being preserved in cocoa butter, arrived in excellent 
condition for examination. As the materials from which the 
description of the genus was drawn up were very imperfect, a 
fresh examination was very desirable. I had prepared the 
analyses and part of the drawings of Sararanga, published in 
Mr. Hemsley’s paper, and was thus to u certain extent respon- 
