340 Pandanacece. [Pandanus. 



infl. of a stout flexuous pendulous rhachis 6-10 in. long, 

 bearing spadices of fl. in the axils of pale yellow spathiform 

 bracts with green caudate tips ; male spadices 3-4 in. long, 

 cylindric, consisting of a stout rhachis clothed with short, 

 stout pedicels, (confluent fil.) i in. long, terminated by a cluster 

 of oblong apiculate anth. yV in. long ; fem. spadix solitary, 

 sessile; carpels § in. long, clavate, angular, acute, stigma 

 unguiculate, simple or 2-toothed ; syncarp nearly globose, 

 5-6 in. diam., green, drupes angular, crown rounded, tipped 

 by the large coriaceous incurved stigma. 



In running water, beds of streams, and often planted on borders of 

 paddy fields in moist region ; common. Fl. Feb., March. 



Endemic. 



Kurz (Journ. Bot. v. 102) quotes this C. P. number for P. furcatus, 

 Roxb., and Balfour (Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 47) refers it doubtfully to the 

 same species, but it is very distinct, 



3. P. foetidus, Roxb. Fl.Ind. iii. 742 (1832), var. racemosus, Kurz 

 in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii. 150 (1869) (sp.) Dumu-keyiya, S. 

 P. humilis., Moon, Cat. 67 ; Thw. Enum. 327. C. P. 3740. 



Fl. B. Ind. vi. 483 (not given for Ceylon). Freyc. Voy. t. xxvi. I. 1-9. 

 {Foullioya racetitosa^ Gaud.) 



A densely branched shrub, 3-6 ft. high, with prostrate 

 soboliferous stem; 1. 4-6 ft. by 3-4 in., thickly coriaceous, 

 glaucous green, glossy above, closely minutely reticulate on 

 both surfaces with (when dry) raised venules, spinous on the 

 margins, midrib beneath, and sometimes on the veins, spines 

 Jj in. distant, strongly incurved, or recurved on the midrib; 

 male infl. a short flexuous pendulous rhachis h in. diam,; 

 spathes yellow, glossy, margin and midrib finely spinulose- 

 ciliate, lower up to i ft. long, abruptly acute; male spadices 

 sessile in the spathes, 6-10 in. long, consisting of a fleshy 

 rhachilla, densely clothed with slender subulate flexuous 

 anth. 3 in. long; fem. infl. like the male, but erect, rhachis 

 zigzag; spadices 6-"/, ovoid, about i] in. long; carpels closely 

 packed, free, linear, polygonal, terminating in a stiff sharp 

 beak with a narrow stigmatic line running from apex to base; 

 ripe syncarps 5-7 in a pendulous cluster, 3^-4^ in. long, 

 sessile, globose or ovoid, subtrigonous, prickly, pale glaucous 

 yellowish green, fetid; carpels connate below by their 

 glutinous pericarps, crowns nipple-shaped, angular, termi- 

 nated by the spinescent upcurved stigmas. — Chiefly from 

 notes by Dr. Trimen. 



Moist low country; common, but usually planted as a fence for paddy 

 fields. Fl. March. 



Solms (1. c. 9) is my authority for placing this under P./addus, Roxb. 

 Balfour (1. c. 58, 67) refers it doubtfully to /'. polyccp/tali/s, Lam. Kurz 

 quotes (1. c. loi) this C. P. number for his P. ajjinis with doubt. The 



