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P. candelahram {Tucheyd). We find further, here, a P. Linnm^ P. Rim- 

 pJdiy P. Bheedii^ P. BorgiL We can only guess, but not determine, 

 what may be meant. 



My chief object in visiting M. Gaudichaud at Paris, in 1831, was 

 to be enlightened upon his new genera an(! species, but in vain. He 

 only spoke of what for many years has been his fixed idea, — the gi'OTvth 

 of the fibres in the stems of plants in a downward direction. He in- 

 stantly produced numerous drawings and specimens to prove it ; but, 

 however beautiful, and in many respects admirable, they did not cau- 

 vince me of tlie ti'uth of his theory. The time passed away, and 1 had 

 learned nothin": of that for which I had come. The French Academv, 



which soon had to lament the loss of St. Hilaire, Eichard, and De Jus- 

 sieu, was quickly deprived of the worthy Gaudichaud, and with him, 

 perhaps, departed the hope that the botanical part of the Voyage of the 

 Bonite would ever be completed. 



Sir William Hooker, in 1853, published a drawing and description 

 o^P.p7///m{gU8y Thouars(Desv. Journ- de Bot. i. 45 ; Kunth, En. iii. 99), 

 in the 'Botanical Magazine,' t. 4786, accompanied with a sketch of 

 the vegetation, of the plant. His specimen had been cultivated during 

 twenty years ; it came from the Isle of France, and produced female 

 blossoms at Kew in 1852-3. 



The Botanical Garden of the Leyden University afforded, not long 

 ago, an opportunity of making an observation which seems wortliy to 

 be communicated in this places and which shows tliat the establish- 

 ment of our higher instruction may serve for the diffusion of science, as, 

 in the opinion of many competent persons, it should do. 



On the 20th of May, 1828, twenty-six years ago, by the orders of my 

 respected predecessor Professor Reinwardt, a Pandanus was bought at 

 the sale of iL Faesch's plants at Westraeer, near Haarlem, by the pre- 

 sent gardener, Schuurraans Stekhovcn. This plant was then so small, 

 that one person could easily carry it. It was called P. rejlexus, and is 

 now the ornament of the Garden. Its handsome foliage fills the house 

 in which it grows, and justly excites the admiration of all who contem- 

 plate it. The height of the plant is 14 feet, the breadth of tlie foliage 

 8 feet, the height of the steni 4 feet, the circumference of the stem at the 

 beginning of the leaves 2 feet, the breadth of the leaf-bases on an average 



18 inches. 



In December, 1852, one of t!ic undcr-gardcuers observed that thi^ 



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