150 CXXXIV. PANDANER. [ Pandanus. 
. long: Seed asin 5 i 
odoratissimus laterally attached near the base, the testa thin and brittle. 
N. S. Wales. Lord Howe's Island, C. Moore, Fullagar. 
Secrron Il. Acrostiema, Kurz (genus Fisquetia, Gaudich. )— Fi 
ments free. Stigmas raised on a conical or oblong acute or pee 
style or apex of the ovary. Drupes free or equally connate at the 
. P. monticola, F. Muell. Fragm. v.40, vii. 63, and viii. 220.— Sten 
weak, half climbing, attaining 2 in. diameter. Leaves placed v 2 
other species but very long, hanging, bordered by small prickle 
serratures. Mal pi ng 
rhachis, rather distant, 2 to 3 in. 
but imperfect in th i 
y. : : d 
about 5 lines long, the pericar thick 20! 
ng shortly acuminate styles 
above j in. long, with small terminal stigmas. Seeds normal. 
2. FREYCINETIA, Gaudich. j 
Flowers dicecious in dense spikes, pedunculate or sessile in E ai 
bracts and usually 2 or 8 spikes toget the 
Male flowers. Stamens crowded on © 
di: 
rhachis, the H ; anthers small, ovate, adnate, - 
revolute hie resembling little globular heads. Female flowe 
es often s 
inse don 
ten surrounded by 2 or 3 short staminodia, densely packe 
the rhachis, cohering by their membranous almost gelatinous bas 
ene divided by 2 or 3 
o 
* LÀ . 1 or 
projecting parietal placentze; stigmas | 
stigmatic lobes 2 or 3, sessile. Ovules numerous, superposed m € 
on each p Fruits d numerous, in ovoid oblong or CY 
heads, succulent at the top, eonnate at the base 
irregularly numerous 
1 , oblong, bearing on one or both si 
longitudinal loosely cellular a pen < i 
Dg my. ppendage or strophiole.—Straggling ^ 
climbing perennials or shrubs with leafy branches. Leaves with num 
