262 REMARKS ON DOORNIA AND RYKIA, 



scribed by that botanist is, I think, properly referred to Pandanus. 

 From the drawing, however, it cannot positively be determined that 

 this plant is identical with that of Roxburgh, in the Flora of the Coast 

 of Coromandel, 



Keura odonfera of Petrus Porskal (in the ' Flora ^gyptiaco-Arabica, 

 descriptiones, etc. ; after the author's death published by Niebuhr) ap- 

 pears to point at a Pandanus^ which was imported into that country 

 (172), and was distinguished by the strong perfume of the male blos- 

 soms, and for that reason is perhaps referred to P. odoratissimus. 

 Touching what Jacquin has advanced in his ' Fragmenta Botanica ' (p. 

 21. t, 14), there prevails some uncertainty about the agreement be- 

 tween Eumph and Kheede. It is said ' Singularissimas et spectabilissi- 

 mse hujus arboris descriptio legi potest apud Eheede, RmripAmm, Rox- 

 burghium aliosque." 



He calls however the plates, to which he refers that Pandanus (viz* 

 odoratissm?(s) of Rheede and Rumph, Pandanus htmilis, Jacq. ; not 

 that which the authors have held for the P. humiUs of Rumph, at p. 16. 



It is unnecessary to recapitulate all that plagiarists have written re- 

 lative to Pandani; suffice it to show what, in this department of the 

 Flora of our East Indies, is established here and in Eastern India. 



Professor Blume, in the Catalogue of the Government Botanical 

 Garden at Buitenzorg (published at Batavia in the year 1853) has 

 taken up three sorts of Pandanus, viz. P. liorridus, R., P. inermis, R., 

 and P. odoratissimus, K. They are not described. In his ' Rumphia/ 

 vol. i. p. 155, he treats de qinhusdam plantis minus cognitis e familia 

 Pandanearum; but he says definitely, "Neque tamen hsec nostra inves- 

 tigatio magnificentissimos illos spectabit Pandanos, qui vel in sterilibus 

 et saxosis harum insularum (v. c. Bandanensiura) littoribus, insignem 

 tropicse vegetationis luxuriem et vigorem ostentant, et quorum adspec- 

 tus eandem fere in animo admirationem et quasi stuporem excitat, quam 



ignificent 



Horto 



alter, auctore J. C. Hasskarl, Batavise, 1841,' seven sorts of Pandanus 



are represented as being in that Garden, viz. P. latispinus (BL), P. 



furcatus (Roxb., horridus, Rwdt.), P. lavis (Rumnh, iv. 154), P. cari- 



(Rumph. iv. 154), P. humilis (Rumph 

 flwdt.), P. latifoUus (Rumph. iv. 139. 



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