lately had the pleasure of seeing, Pandani form a striking 
feature in the landscape. 
Of the leaves of Pandanus odoratissima, growing in Mauritius 
and Bourbon, the bags in which sugar is exported are all made ; 
and when they have served for that purpose they are sold to the 
London fishmongers, where they are familiar to every person who 
buys a piece of fish in the market, as the receptacle for carrying 
home the purchase for his dinner. 
Pandanus Candelabrum, as far as we are aware, is exclusively 
a native of the West Coast of Africa, where it seems to abound ; 
yet it has only been noticed scientifically by M. de Beauvois. 
In the ‘ Niger Flora,’ it is merely observed that it is “ common 
along the coast, where it was observed by Vogel, but no speci- 
men was gathered.” No doubt, in consequence of the great 
and long-continued intercourse between Western Africa and the 
West Indies, this plant (with many others) has been introduced 
into the New World, as many West Indian species are now 
commonly seen about Sierra Leone and other African towns. 
Dzscr. Our description of a plant of whose habits we know 
so little must necessarily be imperfect. We have no record even 
of the height or bulk to which the ¢ree (for such it is) attains in 
its native country. Loddiges’ plant, in the Sydenham Palace, is 
about twenty-five feet high, speaking from recollection. Beau- 
vois represents the stem as lofty, annulated with the scars of 
_ fallen leaves, throwing out from near the base, and also consi- 
derably above the base, at intervals, large stem-like roots, which 
spread, descend into the ground, and form so many props, and 
serve also as anchorage for the trees, where the rapid currents 
would otherwise annihilate them. Somewhat in the same way as 
stem-like roots are given out below, so the upper part bears stout 
branches, which diverge or are deflexed, their apices inclining 
upwards, and there crowned with a tuft of leaves beautifully 
spirally arranged in three ranks: these Jeaves are two to three 
feet (perhaps more) long, about two inches wide, linear-subulate 
in form, broad and sheathing at the base, costate, the margin 
beset with rather distant, red-brown, spinous teeth or serratures 
pointing upwards. We have seen neither male nor female flowers. 
The former are figured (but not fully described) as forming 
oblong, very dense thyrses, springing from the axils of the leaves, 
little being visible but the innumerable s¢amens, with their linear 
anthers. ‘These flowers, says M. de Beauvois, yield a powerful 
and fragrant odour, “qui corrigé celle des vapeurs infectes, 
répandue par le limon vaseux que les eaux laissent & découvert 
deux fois le jour, lorsqu’elles sont retirées.”” Femate FLowERs :— 
Our not perfectly mature fruit is: solitary, arising from the axil 
of a leaf, terminating a stout, decurved peduncle, and it consists 
of a cluster of subcompressed, ovate, very hard and fibrous, an- 
