Fam. 96. PANDANACEjE. 



1. Pandanus, L. f. 



1. P. fascicularis, Lam, Koora, H„ Kia baha, S. ; 

 The Screw Pine. 



A small tree with numerous thick aerial roots, and 

 spirally 3-farions long narrow spinulose leaves in terminal 

 crowns. 



Eanchi Lake, Wood, but probably planted. Often cultivated. Fie. r.s. 



L. 3-5 ft. long. Fl8. dioecious small crowded on a spadix without 

 perianth. M. with numerous stamens with connate filaments. F. in 

 fruit of firm obconic drupes 1$'' long connate in groups in an oval cone-like 

 head 6-8" long. 



The flowers, esp. the males, are very sweet-scented. 



Fam. 97. GRAMINEJE.. 1 



Grasses or bamboos. Annual or perennial plants, if peren- 

 nial usually with annual shoots with hollow internodos (solid 

 in most Andropogonese), alt. distichous leaves and minute 

 flowers concealed by imbricating bracts (glumes). Leaf with 

 a split tubular sheath furnished with a ligule at the mouth, 

 ligule sometimes of hairs only or, rarely, altogether absent. 

 Petiole usually 0, except in the bamboos. Glumes imbricate 

 in small spikes (spikelet s}, the lowest two and sometimes also 

 the uppermost empty. Rachis of the spikelet (rachilld) 

 sometimes articulate below the spikelet or above the two 

 lowest glumes. Spikelets variously arranged in spikes or 

 panicles. Flowers 1-2-sexual sub-sessile in the axils of the 

 flowering glumes, usually with a bracteole (pale, palea) on 

 the opposite side to the glume which frequently closely 

 invests the ovary or fruit. Perianth or perhaps repre- 

 sented by the lodicules, 2 rarely 3 minute hypogynous scales 



1 In the genera An dropogon and its allies considerable use has been 

 made of the "Oil grasses of India and Ceylon," by Dr. Otto Stapf 

 (Published in Kew Bulletin, No. 8 of 1906.) 



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