Freyctnetia.'] Pandanace^. 34 1 



Fl. B. Ind. puts it at end of the genus as imperfectly known. Kurz 

 founded his P. race^nosus on the plate (t. 26, f. 1-9) of Foullioya racemosa 

 in Gaudichaud's voyage, which does not show the fruit. No text of the 

 latter work was ever published, and the locality is hence unknown. The 

 fruits as well as the flowers have a disagreeable scent. — Trimen. 



There is another Pandaniis commonly used about Colombo for 

 fencing paddy fields which I have referred (Journ. Bot. xxiii. 174) to 

 P. Kaida^ Kurz, as it precisely agrees with the figures in Hort. Mai. 

 ii. t. 2-5, on which that species is founded. I have seen only female 

 plants, and the seeds do not ripen. It is therefore probably imported. 

 Like the other species when used for fences, it is called ' Wettakaiya.' — 

 Trimen. 



I find the following notes upon this plant amongst Dr. Trimen s 

 MS.:—' L. broadish, bright light green, glaucous above, marginal spines 

 very strong, upcurved, those on midrib beneath hooked backward in the 

 lower part, forward in the upper ; fem. spikes \ -3 in. long, oblong-ovoid, 

 slightly trigonous; fl. about 10, irregularly placed, quite separable from 

 base to apex, each composed of 2-3 flat-topped, 5-6-angled carpels 

 separated by a groove, stigma sessile, flat, or somewhat 2-lobed, rather 

 reniform; syncarp orange, ovoid-oblong, very obtuse, trigonous, 10^ by 

 6 in. diam., with one or two smaller nearly globose ones beneath, carpels 

 very distinct, free portions \-\ in. high, crowns rounded or rather flat, 

 obtusely angled, quite smooth, stigmas 2-3, very slightly prominent, 

 hard, brown.' The large, distant, strongly hooked marginal spines of 

 the leaf do not appear to me at all to resemble those of the figures of 

 Rheede referred to by Dr. Trimen, but agree with those of Rheede's 

 Kaida Toddi, ii. t. 6.— J. D. H. 



2. FREVCZNETZA, Gaudich. 

 Slender shrubs, climbing by aerial roots; 1. tufted at the 

 ends of the branches, tristichous, elongate, base sheathing ; 

 fl. dioecious, crowded on simple, terminal, fascicled or sub- 

 umbellate spadices, surrounded by white or coloured spathes ; 

 perianth o; male fl. : — stam. crowded on an elongated rhachis, 

 fil. long or short, anth. linear-oblong, apiculate or cuspidate, 

 pistillodes small or ; fem. fl. staminodes short, hypogynous, 

 linear, adnate to the base of the ov., carpels free or connate in 

 bundles, i -celled, top thickened, crowned with a depressed 

 annular crenulate stigma, ovules many, attached by long 

 ascending funicles to 3 or more parietal placentas; fr. a fleshy 

 syncarp of confluent carpels crowned with hardened stigmas, 

 cells many-seeded, full of mucilage ; seeds oblong or fusiform. 

 — Sp. about 38 ; 5 in Fl. B. Ind. 



Fil. of stam. elongate i. F. pycnophylla. 



Fil. of stam. very short 2. F. Walkeri. 



I. r. pycnophylla, So/ms in Lijincea, xlii. 91 (1878). 

 F. angustifolia, Thw. Enum. 327 (non Bl.). Pandanus scandens, 

 Moon, Cat. 67. C. P. 366. 

 Fl. B. Ind. vi. 487. 



