Pandanus. dioecia monandria. 743 



pering-, fleshy receptacle, of about an incli in length, to which 

 the anthers are affixed. Filaments very sliort, witli 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. 

 Frtdt 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. /Seec? solitary, in the lower cell, or 

 part of the nut, a septum separating the seed from an upper 

 cell of the nut, which is larger, and replete with soft white 

 pith only. 



Note. The smell of both male and female flowers is hijrh- 

 ly oflTensive, being almost like that of the flowers of Stercu- 

 liajbetida. So far as I know, it is only employed for hedges. 



3. P. amaryllifolius. R. 



Diffuse. Leaves linear, tending to be three-nerved, apices 

 rather broad, somewhat spinous-serrulate. 



This species came from Amboyna. It has now been four- 

 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 beino- a Pandanus, 



