Tas. 4736. 
PANDANUS pyemaus. 
Dwarf Screw-Pine. 
Nat. Ord. PanpDANE#&.—Di1cécia PoLYANDRIA. 
s 
Gen. Char. Flores dioici. Masc. Spadix compositus, thyrsoideus. Stamina 
plurima, conferta ; filamenta filiformia. -Anthere biloculares. Fam. Spadix sim- 
plex. Ovaria plurima, dense conferta, libera vel in phalanges connata, 1-ovu- 
lata; ovarium e basi placente parictalis adscendens, anatropum. Stigmata sessi- 
lia, distincta. Drupe fibrosee, (seepius, Br.) in phalanges connate, monosperme ; 
putamine osseo. Semen e basi placente parietalis erectum ; tesa membranacea, 
in pluribus raphidophora (Bennett); raphi filiformi, obsoleta. Embryo in basi 
albuminis dense carnosi minimus, orthotropus ; radicula hilum attingens, infera.— 
Caudex arborescens, strictus, sepe stolonifer. Folia phyllodinea, trifariam imbri- 
cata, elongato-lineari-lanceolata, amplexicaulia, margine sepius spinosa. Spathee 
conferte, sepe colorate, ex axilla spadicis excrescentes. Kth. (ex Endl.) 
PANDANUS pygmeus; patenti-ramosissimus, undique radicans, foliis subpeda- 
libus e lata basi amplexicauli lineari-subulatis acuminatissimis carinatis, 
marginibus carinaque albo-serrato-spinulosis, capitulis foemineis ellipticis 
racemosis erectis, nucibus (immaturis) obovato-cuneatis monospermis. 
Panpanus pygmeus. Thouars, in Desv. Journ. de Bot. v. 1. p. 45. Kunth, 
Enum. Plant. v. 3. p. 99. 
Our name and our reference to the plant of M. Aubert du_ 
Petit Thouars must be received with some degree of caution. 
«'The trees which constitute the genus Pandanus, Vaquois or 
Baquois of the French,” observes M. du Thouars, “are amongst 
the most singular of those that grow in countries situated within 
the tropics ; on which account they have been remarked by all 
travellers in those countries. Rheede and Rumphius have de- 
scribed many of the species, but without any details of their fruc- 
tification ; and it is on this account that Linnzus had omitted 
them in his ‘Systema.’ But having been observed by Forskal, 
Bankes, Forster, and Commerson, the younger Linnaeus adopted 
the genus (Pandanus) in the ‘ Supplementum ’ which he has 
given of his father’s work, indicating however only one species. 
M. Lamarck (Dictionnaire Encyclopédique) described four species. 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1853. 
