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across, glaucous beneath acuminate with a long point, thorns numer- 

 ous brown. Female spike on a stout flexuous peduncle 2 inches long 

 and half an inch through, oblong thick green 4 inches long I2 inch 

 through. Drupes small with a very stout simple curved style, occa- 

 sionally bifurcate as in the preceding species. 



Selangor : Labu river, forming" dense thickets, also Batu Tiga ; 

 growing in streams and conspicuous from its grey, erect, sword-like 

 leaves. Native name " Mengkuang Ayer." Endemic. 



5. P. BICOENIS, Ridley Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 41, 49. 

 Stems short, only 1 or 2 feet tall. Leaves dark green, glaucescent at 

 the top, 2 feet or more long 2 inches wide, broadly linear and tapering 

 quickly into a very thorny tail 3 inches long, edge and keel especially 

 at base armed with numerous recurved thorns. Female bracts broad 

 ovate, outer ones rather abruptly acuminate 6 inches long with a slen- 

 der point 2 i aches long thorny, inner bracts obtuse. Head solitary, 

 oblong, rounded at the top 4 inches long and nearly as broad, green. 

 Fruits nearly 2 inch through f inch long, top broad, free obscurely 

 angled. Style broad, short, with 2 spreading short, sharp horns with 

 broad bases, about i inch long. 



Perak : Larut Hills in dense forest at 2500 to 3000 feet alt. 

 (Ridley). Endemic. 



6. P. STELLIGER, Ridl. Journ. Roy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 41, p. 49. 

 A slender stemmed pandanus about ten feet tall, branched. Leaves 

 linear acuminate shining grey green over a foot long and an inch wide, 

 point long and narrow 3 inches long, thorns distant except at the point 

 which is very thorny. Male flowers not seen. Syncarps oblong 

 ovoid 2 inches long and over an inch through in a cluster of 4, nearly 

 sessile. Drupes large i inch through, style oblong top square with 3 

 or 6 sharp points, apex rough. 



Selangor: at the 20th mile Pahang Track (Ridley 8775), in forest. 

 Perak : Larut Hills at 2500 feet alt. (Ridley). Endemic. This was 

 referred to P. minor Ham. by the authorities at Kew but differs in the 

 clustered fruits and the form of the style. The top of the style is quite 

 flat and square in outline, with from 3 to 6 horizontal points. 



7. P. PEAINII, Martelli. Boll. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1904 p. 301. A 

 small pandan stem 8 to 12 feet long. Leaves stiff and thick glossy rich 

 green, drying pale yellowish, nerves invisible linear acuminate wide. 

 Margins armed with small pale thorns, keel with fewer ^distant ones, 

 tip closely, shortly, thorny. Male inflorescence not seen. Female 

 syncarp 4 or 5 inches long 2-3 inches thick on a stout peduncle ellip- 

 tic oblong in form. Pistils small, style with a distinct rounded bulb- 

 shaped base, detaching above it, terete acuminate rather short pale 

 coloured. Stigma linear on the inner face. Drupes narrow oblong 



erminated by the hemispheric bulb. 



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