Fandanus.] PandaiiacecB. 339 



Fern, spadix solitary. 



Anth. subulate, stigma depressed . . . i. P. ODORATISSIMUS. 



Anth. oblong, stigma prominent . , . 2. P. zeylanicus. 



Fern, spadices spicate, stigma uncinate . . 3. P. fcetidus. 



1. P. odoratissimus, L. f. Suppl. PL 424 (1781). Mudu- 

 kdyiya, S. Talai, T. 



Herm. Mus. 55 (WcEthakejija). Burm. Thes. 20. Fl. Zeyl. n. 131 

 {Bromelia). Moon, Cat. 67. Thw. Enum. 327. P. fascicularis, Lam., 

 Trim. Syst. Cat. 97. C. P. 3739. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 485 {P . fasciciilaris). Rheede, Hort. Mai. ii. tt. i and 6. 

 Roxb. Cor. PI. tt. 94-96. 



Shrubby, 15-20 ft. high; stem rooting above the ground; 

 branches i in. diam. and upwards, spreading, supported by- 

 stout aerial roots; 1. 3-5 ft., ensiform, caudate-acuminate, 

 coriaceous, marginal spines pointing forward, those on the 

 midrib beneath pointing forward or backwards ; male infl. 

 of a stout, elongate, pendulous, terminal rhachis bearing 

 spadices of fl. in the axils of large white lanceolate coriaceous 

 spathiform bracts 4-12 in. long; male spadices 3-4 in. long 

 by i-ii in. diam., subsessile, cylindric, consisting of a very 

 stout rhachis giving off densely crowded short spiciform 

 branches clothed with stam., anth. longer than the slender 

 fil, sagittately lanceolate, caudate-acuminate, base of cells 

 rounded ; fem. spadix solitary, 2 in. diam., enclosed in spathi- 

 form yellow bracts like those of the male infl., but stricter; 

 carpels confluent in obpyramidal groups of 6-10 or fewer, 

 green, stigmas short, reniform, yellow; fr. an oblong or globose 

 orange or scarlet syncarp, 6-10 in. long and broad, carpels 

 2-3 in. long, turbinate, angular, confluent, crown smooth, 

 convex, more or less depressed around the reniform stigmas. 



On the sea-coast, usually forming a belt above high-water mark ; 

 very common all round the island. Fl. rainy season ; male spadix very 

 fragrant. 



Throughout the shores of Trop. Asia, Polynesia, and Mauritius. 



There is a good drawing of Hermann's but no specimen, and Linnaeus 

 never named the plant. Linn. fil. obtained his specimens from Thunberg, 

 collected in Ceylon in 1777-8. His name has three years' precedence 

 over Lamarck's. — Triinen. 



There is some uncertainty about the name which this Ceylon plant 

 should bear. According to Roxburgh (Fl. Ind. iii. 738) the 1. of P. odora- 

 tissimus are smooth and glossy; but, according to Kurz (For. Fl. ii. 508), 

 they are 'almost whitish glaucous or glaucous green.' — J. D. H. 



2. P. zeylanicus, 5,9/wyz«Zz>?;z(2'a,xlii. 16(1878). O-keyiya, 5. 



P. ft(rc'ahts, Thw. Enum. 327 (non Roxb.). C. P. 2734. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 484 {ceylanicus). 



Sterns very slender, tall, tufted, about i in. diam., sparingly 

 branched ; 1. 3-4 ft. by i in., lanceolate, caudate, margins and 

 keel distantly spinulose, marginal spinules upcurved; male 



