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Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Stems erect. Carpels 1 ovuled 1. Pandanus. 



Stems scandent. Carpels many ovuled ... 2. Freycinetia. 



1. Pandanus, L. 



Trees or shrubs erect branched with stout aerial roots. Leaves 

 long and broad or narrow. Male spadix branched deflexed. Stami- 

 nodes in female flowers absent. Carpels 1 ovuled. Species numerous 

 tropical. A difficult group to work out as male flowers in many species 

 are quite unknown and very rarely met with and the descriptions of 

 many species are far too inadequate to identify the plant with. 



1. Keura. Drupes plurilocular 



1. P. fascicular is. 



Drupes unilocular. 



§ 2. RYCKIA. Stamens connate in bundles. 

 Stigma on the upper surface of the style. 

 Stigmas forked. 



Syncarp solitary oblong thick over a foot long 

 Syncarp solitary globose, Leaves conspicuously 

 3 -nerved. 

 Stem erect, leaves 1-3 feet 

 Stem submerged prostrate. Leaves very 



long sword-shaped 

 Leaves not conspicuously 3 nerved. 



Syncarp large solitary 



Syncarps several globose 

 Style simple. 

 Drupes convex abruptly terminated by the 



style. 

 Style distinctly swollen at the base 

 Style not swollen at the base. Syncarp 

 cylindric. A tall plant 20 feet high ••• 

 Drupes with a conic top passing into the 



style. 

 Leaves broad and sbort, syncarp oval 

 Leaves long, very long caudate, syncarp 



cylindric ••• 

 Leaves linear 



§ 3. Acrostigma. Stamens free. Stigmas 

 on the lower face of the style. Syncarps soli- 

 tary terminal. 



