Tab. 8671. 



PANDANUS furcatus. 



India. 



Pandanaceae. 



Pandanus, Linn.', Bentli. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 949; Warburg, 

 Pandanaceae in Engl. Pflanzenreich, vol. iv. pars 9, p. 43. 



Pandanus furcatus, Eoxb. Hort. Beng. p. 71 (nomen nudum) ; Fl. Ind. ed. 

 Carey, vol. iii. p. 744 ; Miq. Anal. Bat. Ind. vol. iii. p. 10, tab. ii. ; Fl. Ind.- 

 Bat. vol. iii. p. 162, tab. 37 ; Carriere in Rev. Hort. 1879, p. 290, cum icon, 

 col. ; Solms-Laubach in Linnaea, vol. xlii. p. 13; Hook f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 

 vol. vi. 484 ; Warburg. 1. c. p. 75, figs. 21 a-c, ex parte ; Martclli in 

 Webbia, vol. iv. pars i. p. 15, tab. 29, figs. 5-8 ; inter species sectionis 

 Mykiae syncarpia solitaria et stylos furcatos possidentes drupis cylindraceis 

 apice late pyramidatis stylis longiusculis depressis baud alte furcatis 

 diBtinctus. 



Arbor 3-4 m. (rarius ad 10 m.) alta, superne parce divaricato-ramosa, basi 

 radices aerias crassas trunco subadpressas emittens, cortice leviter annulato 

 cinereo radicum cicatricibus notato. Folia linearia, longe tenuiter acumi- 

 nata, 3-5 m. longa, 5-10 cm. lata, coriacea, ad margines spinis 3-4 mm. 

 longis basi latis complanatis armata, tessellato-venosa. Inflorescentia 6 

 terminalis, pendula; spadices cylindrici, spathis longioribus late lanceolatis 

 breviter acuminatis aureis coriaceis spinoso-marginatis suffulti, spicatim 

 dispositi. Stamina 9-13, monadelpha, filamentis liberis brevibus, 

 antheris cuspidatis. Spadix 9 solitarius vel pauci racemose dispositi, 

 floribus ad pistilla reductis densissime onusti. Ovarium cylindricum, 

 apice rotundatum, stylo sursum depresso breviter furcato. Syncarj>ium 

 oblongum vel ellipsoideo-oblongum, 15-45 cm. longum, fusco-auran- 

 tiacum vel croceo-rubescens, carnoso-fibrosum. Drupae connatae, 5-6- 

 gono-cylindraceae, vertice pyramidato-convexo stylo osseo-indurato spinoso 

 nitenti fusco coronato. — P. horridus, Bl. Cat. Jav. Buitenz. p. 111. 

 P. Houlletii, Carr. in Rev. Hort. (1868), p. 212. P. spinifructus, Demist. 

 Schluess. Hort. Malab. p. 27. P. D'Haetiei. Kew Hand-List Tender Mono- 

 cots, ed. 2 (1915), p. 181, vix Le Coq, Rev. Hort. Belg. vol. x. (1884), p. 234, 

 fig. 22. Eykiafurcata, de Vriese in Versl. Akad. Wet. vol. ii. (1854), p. 203, 

 et Hook. Journ. Bot. vol. vi. (1854), p. 268.— O. Stapf. 



The Screw Pine here figured is one which was pur- 

 chased for the Kew Collection in 1888 from Mr. A. 

 d'Haene, nurseryman, Ghent, as P. D'Haenei, Le Coq, 

 said to be a species introduced from Madagascar by 

 means of seeds dbtained by Mr. L. Humblot prior to 

 1884. It has been in cultivation at Kew, since its 

 acquisition, in the Palm House along with other species 

 of the genus, and although it never quite resembled the 

 plant of which a figure has been given by Mr. Le Coq, it 



August, 1916. 



