Pandanus.] CXXXIV. PANDANEJE. 149 
cuneate, hard and woody, 2 to 3 in. long, very obtuse, connate in 
clusters of 8 to 20 and these collected in a globular head 6 to 8 iu. 
diameter, the elusters flat and areolate at the top, the apex of each 
drupe scarcely prominent, and the remains of the stigmas quite flat, 
the pericarp when old splitting into fibres at the base.—Roxb. Corom. 
Pl. t. 94 to 9 ; P. spiralis, R. Br. Prod. 341, and the numerous 
ehm verus, à Rumphian 
designation used previous to the establishment of the Linnean 
N. Australia. R, Brown (no label in his herbarium); Arnhem’s‘Land and Islands 
of the Gulf of Carpentaria, F. Mueller ; Port Darwin, Schultz, n. 613; Escape Cliffs, 
Hulse ; King’s und, Hughan. 
les is widely spread over tropical Asia and the Malayan Archipelago. The 
ee drupes in F. Mueller's specimens as well as the clusters of drupes are much 
zx than in the usual Indian specimens as observed by Dr. J. B. Balfour, but they 
W no character to distinguish them specifically. 
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emitting no adventitious descending roots, and in the drupes in the 
head n t cohering in clusters. Our specimen consists of leaves only and 
ades Inflorescence, in no respects distinguishable from those of P. 
VB and the want of adventitious roots may oceur in many 
N. Australia, Upper Victoria River, F. Mueller. 
fa P. pedunculatus, X. Br. Prod. 341.—Stems “ emitting stolons 
at the base, arborescent” (R. Brown). Leaves broader than in P. 
» tapering into a long narrow point, the edges prickly. Of 
e 
lo -, Drupes in narrow clusters of 7 to 18, about 2 in. 
the” very hard and smooth outside, apparently not splitting into fibres, 
conical apexes of the drupes very prominent at the top, each with the 
ot à reniform stigma. 
1 Port Denison, Henne; Rockhampton, Dallachy (leaves only, 1 to 
broad, ud here hy F. Mueller). T d 1 be MO 
E. Muela, : ; Leichhardt (leaves o: 4 in. broad, referred here by 
lee ; Richmond River, Huhar ; Hiatiig River, Beckler, 
Prodent no Specimen in Brown's Herbarium, it is given as tropical in the 
uma Forsteri, Moore and Muell.; F. Muell. Fragm. viii. 220— 
resembles P. odoratissimus in habit as far as can be judged from 
