338 Pandanace<2. [Pandanus. 



Cultivated throughout the Tropics, the origin not known. [Indigenous, 

 according to Kurz, in the Cocos and Andaman Is. — J. D. H.] 



Several varieties are recognised by growers. ' Tembili ' has the 

 endosperm pink in colour, and is called the ' King Coconut.' A very 

 small-fruited dwarf sort [C. nana, Griff.) goes by the name of the 

 ' Maldive ' Coco-nut.* 



CXL.— PANDANACE^. 



Trees or shrubs, erect, or scandent by aerial roots ; 1. usually 

 trifarious, alt., long, narrow, acuminate, or caudate, margins 

 and keel spinous ; fl. dioecious, in axillary or terminal simple 

 or branched globose or cylindric spadices which are sur- 

 rounded by leafy spathes or bracts and bracteoles; perianth o; 

 male fl. : — stam. many, collected in fascicles, or spicate, fil. free 

 or connate, anth. erect, basifixed, pistillode o or minute; fem. 

 fl. : — naked, staminodes minute or o; ov. sessile, collected in 

 fascicles, free or connate, stigmas sessile or subsessile, ovules 

 solitary and suberect, or many on parietal placentas anatro- 

 pous; fr. an oblong or' globose syncarp of free, or more or less 

 connate, or confluent, i- or more-celled, woody or fleshy, 

 angular carpels separating from a central columnar receptacle, 

 or marcescent with it; seeds minute, embryo very minute, in 

 hard endosperm. 



Stem erect or procumbent i. Pandanus. 



Stem climbing 2. Freycinetia. 



I. PANDANUS, Liiin.f. 

 Small trees or shrubs ; stem sometimes very short, erect or 

 procumbent, and rooting ; 1. very long, spirally arranged at 

 the ends of the branches, base sheathing; spadices terminal, 

 solitary, spicate or panicled ; fl. dioecious ; stam. fascicled on 

 the spadix, fil. long or short, anth. sessile; fem. crowded on a 

 globose or oblong receptacle, free or confluent, i -celled, crown 

 thickened, stigma simple or forked, ovules i in each cell, 

 ascending from the base of a parietal placenta; fr. a globose or 

 oblong syncarp, of woody or fleshy thick-walled drupes which 

 are deciduous singly or in masses from a fleshy receptacle ; 

 seeds erect, fusiform.. — Sp. 150 (reputed); 15 in Fl. B. J /id. 



* Not to be confounded with the Cocos maUihiica of the old writers, 

 which was the fruit of Lodoicea Seyc/iclluruin, the 'Double Coconut' or 

 ' Coco-de-mer' (a palm peculiar to the Seychelle Is.), carried by the 

 ocean currents and olten cast on the shores of the Maldives. 



