PANDANES. 159 
I have not seen any perianthial scales whatever. 
The inner carpella are above the outer, so that they are not 
internal merely from pressure. 
he germination of Pandanus, may be said to be more 
precocious than that of Nipa, since with the exception of 2-3 
membranous, there is no transition between the petioles, ela- 
mellar, and lamellar. 
The seed remains attached a considerable time to the 
young rhizoma, which is first thrown out, and at a distance 
from which, the axis seems to be formed. This rhizoma looks 
at first like a root, but its sheaths, and their scars, shew that 
it is in reality a stem. 
In this structure, 1. e. the first formation of a rhizoma, and 
then of the leaf-bearing axis at a distance from the seed, (the 
first formation being accessory and temporary,) there is a ten- 
dency to Nipa. Pandanee Malayne. 1842. 
2. Pandanus (Euphalangia) odoritissimus? Pl. CLXXIV. 
Trees, or shrubs often low, with scarcely any caudex or 
stem. = 
Foliis undique imbricatis, without any definite Spirality, li- 
nearia subulato-acuminatissime, carinata, margine Spinis su- 
bulatis albis subcurvatis, ascendentibus, validis armato, carina 
spinis similibus uncinato-decurvis; cauda vel subula triquetra 
aculeis spinisve subosseis, folia coriacea.. 
Capitulis fem. terminalis, basi foliis floralibus sub 12 cinctis, 
of these, Э аге outermost and largest, imbricate alternate, each 
is opposed to 3 or 4 inner ones which are gradually smaller, not 
exactly opposed to the insertion, but approaching to it, these 
are white, of the same shape as the true leaves, and also cari- 
nate, 2 serrulato-spinulosa, except towards the base where 
they are nearly smooth. The innermost occasionally quite 
linear, and unarmed, not out, topping the head. 
_ Pistilla, squamis nullis, interspersis, in phalangis 3-5-7 sæ- 
pissime 6-dispositis, si 6, 4 exteriora, 2 interiora; the 2 in- 
