230 Materials for a Flora of the Malayan Peninsula. 



Syncarps cylindric glaucous green, 6 inches long, 2 inches thick. Drupes 

 numerous o inch long, oblong, apex irregularly angled £ inch across. 

 Styles solitary curved forwards i inch long, brown acute. Stigma 

 nearly the whole length of the style. Kurz. Flora 1869, 451. Hook. 

 fil. EL Brit. Ind. VI. 486. Solms-Laubach Linnea XLIII. 1878. p. II. 

 Warburg Pflanzenreich, IV. p. 81, p. 1, 22, p. Fisquctia ornata, Gaud. 

 Voy. Bonite. Bot. t. 5. 



Singapore: Bukit Timah (Eidley 6287, 3941); Johor : Gunong 

 Pulai, Kota Tinggi ; Malacca: Mt. Ophir (B. Derry 617), Nyalas 

 (Goodenough 1245), Selandan (Eidley 10806) a specimen with 5 syn- 

 carps ; Selangor : Bukit Kutu ; Dindings : Tanjong Hantu (Eidley, Curtis 

 1552) ; Penang Hill (Eidley 9427, Curtis 2272), Kedah Gunong Jerai 

 (Eidley); Perak : Larut (Kunstler 2015). Common in woods to 3000 

 feet elevation. Male plants are very scarce and I have rarely seen ripe 

 fruit. Native name " Pandan Berduri." Endemic. 



20. P. ateocaepus, Griff. Notul. III. 160. Stem 40 to 60 feet 

 tall about 6 inches through, grey and thorny with suppressed rootlets. 

 Leaves linear acuminate, with a long point coriaceous, dark green 

 channelled on the upper surface, edge and keel thorny, thorns distant 

 below closer together at the point, stout and brown tipped ; length of 

 leaf 20 feet, width 4 inches. Male spadix 2 feet or more long. Bracts 

 white, the lowest a foot or more scabrid at the tip. Spikes 4 to 6 inch- 

 es long, fragrant white. Stamens free, filaments very short, stout conic. 

 Anthers much longer linear narrow with a short flat appendage. Female 

 inflorescence 3 to 4 feet long, peduncle stout woody 3 angled 1 inch 

 through zig-zag. Spikes about 6 ovoid oblong 3 inches long 2* inch 

 through. Fruits an inch long about 25 in a circle. Upper portion 4 or 

 more long, conic irregularly angled deep brown, scabrid. Style short 

 conic acute slightly curved. Seeds about k inch long. 



Singapore: Tanglin (Eidley 5), Bukit Mandai Eoad (10950); 

 Malacca ; Johor ; probably common over most of the peninsula. Dis- 

 trib. Banca. This is known to the Malays as " Mengkuang " and the 

 leaves aie used for making kajangs (coverings for ox carts) screens, hats, 

 &c. There can be no doubt that the plant described by Griffith under 

 the name P. atrocarpus, was intended for this common species, but the 

 native name he gives " Pandan ootan " (hutan) is not correctly applied 

 to it. P. caricosus, Spreng. to which this species is referred in the 

 Flora of British India VI. p. 1184 is altogether a different plant. 



21. P. PENANGENSIS, Eidl. Journ. Eoy. As. Soc. S. Br. Vol. 41, p. 

 50. A tall and stout plant with a stem like that of P. atrocarpus, but 

 shorter, about 20 feet tall, 4 inches through. Leaves very long linear 

 acuminate 6 feet or more long, 4 inches across, often marbled light and 

 dark green with thorns along the edges and keel rather stout and crowd- 

 ed towards the tip. Heads 4 or 5 together on asbort peduncle green, 



