488 DR; O. STAPF ON SARARANGA SINUOSA. 
product of a single female flower. The essential differences 
between Sararanga and Pandanus are then the panicled rami- 
fication of the inflorescence, the presence of a rudimentary 
perianth, and the ultimate transformation of the gynaeceum into 
a berry-like, very succulent. drupe in Sararanga, against the 
spadiciform inflorescence, the complete absence of a perianth, 
and the generally more woody character of the drupe in 
Pandanus. 
Sararanca, Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. (Bot.), xxx. (1894) 
p. 216, Pl. XI. Generis Character hic emendatus, a W. Botting 
Hemsley. Flores dioici, g ignoti. Florum ¢ spatha foliacea, 
folio parvo simillima. Spadiz amplissimus, densissime race- 
m:oso-paniculatus, ramosissimus, pendulus, ramulis compressis. 
Flores Q breviter pedicellati; perianthium liberum, subcar- 
nosum, gamophyllum, truncatum vel irregulariter 3-4-lobatum, 
fructiferum occultum; staminodia nulla; gynaecei carnosi 
carpella numerosissima, uniovulata, sinuoso-biseriata, seriebus 
nunc e centro gynaecei trifurcatis ramificationibus bifurcatis, 
nunc valde irregularibus sed serierum dispositio stigmatibus 
sessilibus magnis discoideis vel hippocrepiformibus bene 
indicata. Fructus parvus, carnosus, diupoideus, irregulariter 
2-4-lobatus, multipyrenus, pyrenis osseis 1-spermis; semen a 
funiculo elongato e fere basi anguli interni loculi pendulum, 
embryone conoideo basilari. 
SARARANGA sINvOSA, Hemsl. Arbor pandaniformis circiter 
60-pedalis, trunco nudo (radices séreas hand emittente) apicem 
versus tantum ramoso. Folia ad apices ramorum conferta, 
spiraliter disposita, crassissima, coriacea, lineari-lanceolata 
usque ad 10 ped. longa, 43 poll, lata, basin et apicem versus in 
margine et secus costam aculeis minutis instructa, apice vix 
acuta. Spatha foliacea sed omnino inermis, circiter bipedalis. 
Spadix albus, 4-5 ped. longus, rhachi prope basin usque 4d poll. 
diametro. Pedicelli graciliusculi, 3-9 lin. longi. Fructus 
maturus 6-9 lin. diam.; pyrene obovate, valde compress, 
vix 1 lin. diam. 
Favuro Iszanv, Solomon Group, at elevations of 1,600 to 1,900 
feet, Dr. H. B. Guppy. New Grorata, Solomon Group, “ found 
growing exclusively at the estuaries of rivers and generally in 
clumps of three or four,” Lieutenants Boyle, T. Somerville, and 
8S. Weigall. Jone Istany, North-West New Guinea, Dr. O. 
Beccari. 
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