Tas. 5014. 
PANDANUS CanpeLaBruo. 
Lustre Screw-Pine. 
Nat. Ord. Panpane#.—Diecia PoLyaNnDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4736.) 
Panpanus Candelabrum ; caule inferne radicibus aereis fulto superne ramoso, 
ramis apicibus erectis, foliis e basi amplexicauli Jineari-subulatis carinatis 
margine serrato-spinosis glaucis, spadicibus masculis axillaribus solitariis 
subsessilibus, fructibus subgloboso-depressis, drupis 3(5)-locularibus. K¢th. 
Panpanus Candelabrum. Beauv. Flor. d Oware et de Benin, p. 37. t. 21 ef 22. 
Kunth, Enum. Plant. v. 3. p. 98. 
We are indebted to our excellent correspondent, Hercules 
G. R. Robinson, Esq., Governor of the West Indian Island, 
St. Kitt’s, for living plants of this rare and little-known species 
of Screw-Pine; which, being accompanied by fine specimens of 
the fruit, enable us to offer the annexed figure, which however 
can give no idea of the peculiar mode of growth of this remark- 
able plant. Some notion of it may however be formed from a 
fine specimen we have long observed with interest, firstly in 
Loddiges’ celebrated collection at Hackney, and now at the 
Sydenham Palace. . A very imperfect sketch of it is also given, 
on an extremely reduced scale, in the work above quoted of Pa- 
lisot de Beauvois, tab. 21, fig. a. Notwithstanding we have re- 
ceived this plant direct from the West Indies, it is not there a 
native; and indeed of the thirty species of Screw-Pine charac- 
terized by Kunth in his ‘ Enumeratio Plantarum,’ and the nine 
enumerated but not described by Freycinet, not one is a denizen 
of the New World: all are exclusively of the tropical regions of 
Asia and Africa, generally inhabiting the muddy banks of rivers 
near their embouchures. Among the beautiful series of draw- 
ings of scenery of Victoria River, made by Mr. Baines during 
the late Overland North Australian Expedition, which we have 
NOVEMBER Ist, 1857. 
