Pandanus. DIOECIA MONANDRIA, 743 
pering, fleshy receptacle, of about an inch in length, to which 
the anthers are affixed. Filaments very short, with a thick 
conical base, Anthers long, linear, generally waved, with a 
polliniferous groove on each side, Female, the whole of the 
aggregate female flower as in P. odoratissimus, Germs most 
numerous, single and distinct, not collected into fascicles as 
in the former species, the lower half angular ; the upper half 
tapering into a very sharp, subulate point, on the under side 
of which there is a lighter coloured, linear, glandular, fur- 
rowed elevation, which I take to be the stigma ; however im- 
mediately below this elevated groove there is a smooth ob- 
long pit or hollow, in the lower part of which is a single cell, 
with ten ovula, attached to one side of the bottom of the cell. 
Fruit ovula, three-sided, echinated with the most acute prick- 
ly points of the drupes, of the size of a small pine apple, 
when ripe red. Drupes wedge-shaped, angular, single, but 
_ firmly and closely connected by a pulpy gluten, crowned 
with the remaining stigma, which is now a sharp thorn, Nut 
conformed to the shape of the drupe, longitudinally fibrous, 
not very hard, two-celled. Seed solitary, in the lower cell, or 
part of the nut, a septum separating the séed from an upper 
cell of the nut, which is larger, and neplate with: 06 white 
pith only. ; 
Note, The smell of both male and female Piiince is et. 
ly offensive, beg almost like that of the flowers of Stercu- 
lia foetida. So far as I know, it is only employed fonhedges, 
3. P. amaryllifolius. R. 
Diffuse. Leaves linear, tending to be three-nerved, — 
rather broad, somewhat spinous-serrulate. 4 
This species came from Amboyna. It has now. beemiliae- 
teen years in the Botanic garden and is by far the smallest 1 
have yet known. It has less of the general habit of the ge-) 
nus, than any other I know, but is furnished abundantly with 
the characteristic fusiform roots, which issue from the stems 
‘and larger branches, and enter the ground, which leaves no 
doubt with me of its being a Pandanus. 
