224 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



on all sandy coasts and often planted for fences and for mat making, 

 attaps etc. Native names " Pandan Duri," " Pandan Todas." 



§ 2. Eyckia. 



2. P. Houllettii, Carriere. Rev. Hort. 1868, 210, f. 23. Stem 

 7 or 8 feet tall to the leaves, simply or not branched at the top, 4 inches 

 through. Aerial roots 2 inches through. Bases of leaf -sheaths persist- 

 ing. Leaves numerous linear gradually acuminate 8 feet long 4 inches 

 wide coriaceous dark green, coppery, purple when young, point about 

 6 inches long, spines very small, sharp, curved with brown tips. Male 

 panicles 2 or more feet long, spikes dense 6 to 8 inches long, | inch 

 thick. Lower bracts 14 inches long, 3 inches wide bi'oadly lanceolate 

 acuminate with small thorns on the edges. Upper ones much smaller, 

 terminal one 6 inches by 1 inch. Stamens, filaments connate in bun- 

 dles branching at the top thick nearly i inch long; anthers dorsifixed 

 oblong with a long point, dehiscing for their whole length. Female 

 spike solitary, in fruit cylindric 12 inches long, orange coloured fleshy. 

 Drupes small ■£ inch across angled, crown flattened truncate. Stvle 1 

 or 2 curved sharp. Hook. fil. Fl. Brit. Ind. VI. 486. 



Singapore : Bukit Timah and other woods, (Ridley) ; Johor : Sun- 

 gei Tebrau. " Pandan hutan," " Mengkuang Hutan." In dense forests. 

 The fruit is eatable and tastes like a pineapple. Endemic. 



3. P. BIDENS, n. sp. Shrub 5 to 8 feet tall. Leaves broad linear 

 acuminate caudate H to 3 feet long, 2-3 inches wide, bright green, 

 margins, keel towards the tip and tail armed with short pale thorns 

 with fuscous tips, nerves prominent three, nervules and transverse nerv- 

 ules prominent. When dry, giving the leaf a tessellate appearance. 

 Head solitary oblong sessile or nearly so. " When full grown 4 to 5 

 inches long by 3 inches wide of a dark claret colour, with glossy thorns. 

 Drupes a inch long free portion conic obscurely angled. Style flatten- 

 ed rather long ending in two sharp horizontal points. 



Perak, open jungle on Gunong Malacca 1500 to 2000 feet alt. 

 (King's Collector 7228). Endemic. This is allied to P. bicomis Ridl. 

 but differs in form and structure of the leaves, and the flattened style. 

 P. crinifolium, Martelli I.e. 301 ? The whole description of this is 

 " Styli furcati syncarpia solitaria. Drupae obovatae cuneatae pileo 

 convexo retundato. Stylus brevis aculeiformis. Syncarpim solitarium 

 ovatum 10-13 cent, longum. 7-8 cent. diam. Caverna mesocarpica 

 magna 7 mm., diam. Folia 7-8 cent, lata apice rotundato abrupte in 

 caudiculum producto. Penis. Malese Perak. II. Calc." It may be 

 intended for this species but is a quite insufficient description. 



4. P. IMMERSUS, Ridley Journ. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 41, p. 48. A 

 stout pandan growing immersed in water, the stem rising but little 

 above the surface. Leaves many feet long broadly linear erect 4 inches 



