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sandals and baskets; the leaf-buds and young inflorescence are 
much eaten, as also the fruit. The seeds are pierced and ex- 
ported in large quantities by the Frontier tribes to Mecca to be 
used as rosaries. In its wild condition this palm receives very 
little protection against the severe injuries dealt to the trees owing 
to the great demand by the inhabitants of those countries of so 
many different kinds of products of this palm. Its cultivation 
in the Govt. Garden at Saharanpur and elsewhere in N. India 
offers very good examples of the benefits of protection. In fact 
the specimens as grown at Saharanpur are much taller and more 
luxuriant than the wild kind found in Baluchistan. 
CXV-A.—PANDANEZE. 
Trees or shrubs, sometimes scandent, with stilted or climbing 
erial roots. Leaves usually 3-farious, narrow, acuminate, coriace- 
ous, with margins and keels usually spinously toothed. Flowers 
dicecious, small, crowded on catkin-like, simple or branched axil- 
lary spadices clothed with leaf-like spathes; perianth none; 
bracts and bracteoles none. Mate flowers: Stamens many; fila- 
ments free or connate; anthers erect, basifixed. Pistillode small 
or obsolete. Frm. flowers. Staminodes small or none. Carpels 
solitary, free or connate in phalanges. of 2 or more; ovules soli- 
tary and suberect or many and parietal; stigmas subsessile, papil- 
lose. Fruit a globose er oblong mass of free or connate, 1- or 
more-celled, woody or fleshy angular drupes. Seeds minute ; 
testa striate; albumen hard; embryo minute.—Species about 
80, in Tropical Asia and Africa, growing mostly near the sea-coast 
in a wild state. 
PANDANUS, Linn. f.; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 483. 
Characters those of the family, 
P. fascicularis, Lamk.; F. B. J. vi, 485; Prain Beng. Pl. 1101. 
P. odoratissimus, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii, 7238; Gamble Man, 740, 
Watt E. D. vol. 6, Pt. 1-A. 4—Vern. Keora. (Screw Pine). 
A much-branched bush or a small tree, 10-12 ft. high. Often planted 
in village thickets within the area of this flora, and especially near 
