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P, Houlletti Carr, About 15 feet tall, leaves large, dark 1ed 
when young. Dense jungle, Bukit Timah. 
P. fasctcularis Lam. “ Pandan Duri.” A Jarge much branched 
* plant, with heads of fruit as large as a man’s head, bright 
orange, Sea coasts, and often planted. The leaves used 
for mats and laskets. Common, Changi, Bajau, Blakang 
Mati, Pulau Ubin. 
P. ornatus Kurz. A bush with narrow glaucous leaves. Bukit 
Timah. 
P levis Rumph. “ Pandan Jelinkeh,” with glaucous unarmed 
leaves, is often cultivated, the leaves used to flavour rice, 
and as a perfume. 
P. parvus n. sp. Pandanus 15 Hook. FI. Brit, Ind. Vol. vi. 487. 
This has never been completely described nor named so I 
give a description of it here. Stem 3 feet tall or less, anl 4 
inch in circumference erect grey, emitting long slender roots 
from all parts often producing shoots at the base seldom branch- 
ed higher up. Leaves a foot long and 3 inches wide abruptly 
caudate acuminate, the point 2 inches long very slender dull 
green above glaucous beneath rather thin in texture, spines very 
small numerous on the edges and keel at the apex, none on the 
keel at the base of the leaf. Male spadix six inches long, rachis 
white. Bracts oblong boat-shaped keeled mucronate lowest 4 
inches long, the mucro one inch long in the two lowest bracts 
which are empty, the upper bracts smaller with the keel, edges, 
and point green and armed with short stiff spiny bristles. Flow- 
ering bracts 7, softer than the lower ones ivory white spinulose 
ovate to ovate lanceolate, the terminal one flat lanceolate barely 
4 aninch long. Spikes 5 shorter than the bracts except the ter- 
minal one 3 inch long, Stamens free very slender $ inch long. 
Female spadix solitary globose about 14 inch long carpels conic 
rather abruptly passing into a long brown shining upcurved spine 
nearly + inch long. 
Dry woods, common. Bukit Mandai, Bidadari, Changi, 
Kranji, Sungei Pandan, Pulau Ubin. Also occurs in Johore, 
