latter is so deciduous in P. labyrinthicus, that all traces of 
it are lost as the fruit ripens. Solms Laubach regards P. 
labyrinthicus as very near P. nitidus, Kurz (in Journ. As. 
Soc. Beng. 1869, 147, Solms in Linnea xlii. 18), which is 
described as having the leaves shining on both surfaces, 
solitary erect fruits, and drupes with a shining incurved 
acute style terminated by an oblique subcordate stigma. 
P. labyrinthicus was received and long cultivated at 
Kew under the name of P. ceramicus, a native of the 
Moluccas very imperfectly known. It fruited in the Palm 
House in December, 1888, after which the plant died, but | 
not till a sucker was saved to form a future plant. 
It may be stated here that Pandanus unguifer of this 
work (Tab. 6347) has been determined by Dr. Balfour to 
be the P. minor, Herb. Ham., of Wallich’s Herbarium 
(No. 8592), an unpublished species found by Buchanan 
Hamilton in Bengal. 
Descr. Plaut at Kew ten feet high, consisting of one 
suberect main trunk about six inches in diameter, and 
closely ringed, together with several ascending branches 
from the base; aerial roots few. Leaves two to three feet 
long by one and a half inches broad, finely acuminate, 
margin and more or less of the costa spiny, spines short 
nearly straight. Peduwncle of the female about six inches 
long, decurved in fruit, bearing at the apex three to six 
synearpia. Lower bract below the syncarpia leaf-like ; 
those next the syncarpia three to five inches long, broadly 
ovate-oblong, acuminate, very concave, margins and mid- 
rib at the back closely spinulose. Syncarpia two and a 
half to three and a half inches long, sessile, broadly ellip- 
soid; drupes one inch long, closely packed, narrowly 
oblong, lower half golden yellow, compressed, upper elon- 
gate dome-shaped, four-angled, bright orange-red, capped 
by the pulvinate remains of the style; putamen thick, 
flattened on one side.—.J. D. H. 
-Fig. 1, Drupe; 2, transverse section of the same :—both enlarged. 
