‘Tas. 70638. 
PANDANUS tasyrinratcus, 
Native of the Malay Islands. 
Nat, Ord. PaNDANER. 
Genus Panpanus, Linn. f.; (Benth. et Hook. J. Gen, Pl. vol. iii. p. 949.) 
PANDANUS labyrinthicus ; fruticosus, 10~-20-pedalis, caudicibus crass’s sparse 
tuberculatis ramosis erecto-patentibus radices aerias validas emittentibus, 
foliis spiraliter trifariis anguste linearibus 2-8-ped. longis 1} poll. latis — 
marginibus costaque snbtus spinulis subcurvis armatis supra lucidis subtns 
glauco-viridibus, spathis syncarpiis longioribus concavis ovato-lanceolatis 
spinuloso-ciliatis, syncarpiis 3-4 poll. longis ad apicem pedunculi decurvi 
confertis sessilibus ellipsoideo-oblongis, drupis confertissimis pollicaribus 
anguste oblongis infra medium compressis aureis dein elongato-hemi- 
sphericis 4-gonis rubris ungue (stigmate) brevi furcata caduca papillam 
relinquente terminatis, putamine crasso semitereti. 
P. labyrinthicus, Kurz. in Mig. Ann. Mus. Lugd. Bat. ii. 53; Seem. Journ. 
Bot. vol. v. (1867), p. 108; Journ. As. Soc, Beng. vol. xxxviii. (1869) pt. 2, 
p- 147; Bot, Zeit. vol. lii. (1869), p. 451; Balf. f. in Journ. Linn, Soe. 
vol. xvii. p. 49; Solms Laub. in Linnea, vol. xlii. p. 20, 
Iam indebted to Dr. Balfour for the identification of 
this handsome Pandanus with the Sumatran Pandanus 
labyrinthicus, of which there are fruits in the Museum at 
Kew, communicated by the late D. Hanbury, who received 
them from the Botanical Gardens of Buitenzong, Java. 
A plant of it has been in cultivation at Kew for. 
many years, but its origin is unknown. It differs some- 
what from the description of P. labyrinthicus in the _ 
much fewer aerial roots, which are said in the native plant — 
to be so numerous and interlaced as to have suggested 
the specific name. This is, however, a very variable 
character, naturally depending on climate and humidity. It_ 
was most probably received at Kew from the Buitenzopg 
Gardens many years ago, and may be a native of other of | 
the Malayan jdenda besides Sumatra. Kurz has (in the 
Bengal Journal of the Asiatic Society) referred it to the 
section Rykia, of which the type is P. furcatus, Roxb., a com- . | : 
mon Indian species ; but in P. furcatus the drupeiscrowned | 
by a much larger and more persistent forked claw, which = 
JULY Ist, 1889. es 
