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to which belong M. gldbom and M, leucacantha. This last genus is 

 said, in a note, to be a "genus medium inter Pandanum et Treycinetiam;^ 

 and this is very briefly described, and by no means so clearly as one 

 would expect with a new and imperfectly known family of plants. It 

 does not appear whether Hasskarl has treated and published it else- 

 where (than in the Flora, 1842, Beiblatter, p. 14, and from there in 

 Endl. Gen. Suppl. p. 1711). This may probably arise from a want of 

 specimens. It only occurs in Endlicher's * Genera Plantarum,' 1711 ; 

 to which genus Hasskarl thinks he must refer all the Pandani of Kunth*s 

 * Enumeratio,* from species 1 to 9, included. 



In the 'Plant£e Javanicse rariores' (Berol. 1848), Mr. Hasskarl has 

 treated of two Pandani^ which he refers to P.furcatus (Eoxb.), and 



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-P. IcBvis (Rumph.) ; and in the Bot. Zeit. he has thrown some ad- 

 ditional light on a few others. It is worthy of remark that neither 

 Blume, nor Hasskarl, nor the botanists who have more lately visited 

 our colonies, mention P, odoratimmus^ L., which plant, following other 

 authors, should be the P. venis of Eumph ; but which Noronha alone 

 mentions (Verb. Bat. Genootschap, v. 63), which cannot be the P. odo- 

 ratissimus of the other authors, and thus must be considered as a new 

 and till now unknown species. 



We add to this, that a male plant of P.furcatus^ is described by 

 Miquel (in the Verb, Kon. Ned. Inst, van Wet. 3 Serie, iv deels, Iste 

 stuk, Amst., 1851, p. 22), and that our knowledge of the Pandani of 

 the East Indies is limited to this. 



It appears, from what M. Junghuhn says, that the flora of Java is 

 rich in these beautiful plants; and it is equally clear, tliat as yet we 

 have learnt but little special and fundamental of them. I am more 

 convinced of this by the specimens received from Java through the 

 kindness of Mr. Teysmann, and belonging to the so-named Pandani^ 

 but of which it is not to be assumed that they are referable to that 

 genus. 



The few objects that I offer, I think, serve to prove my opinion. I 

 propose, as the result of my inquiries in the family of the Pattdane^e, to 

 publish a paper under the title of *Nova Genera et Species Pandanea- 

 rum/ which will further elucidate the family and prove my position, 

 that if we take the Pandanus odoraimimus of Linnaeus as a type of the 

 genus Pandanus (the fruit of which species is very well represented, in 

 the Plants of the Coast of Coromandel, by Eoxburgh) we may safely 



