PANDANUS. ; 161 
The inner part of the pericarp is continuous with the style, 
the canal easily separates from the outer fibrous scarcely 
baccate epicarp, and is divided into two cavities by an oblique 
septum, the young seed occupying the lower one; the ex- 
serted free apex of the epicarp is solid, there is no thickening 
of the placenta. 
Immature seeds alone seen. 
The Malacca or Malay name is Pandang Ootan? which sig- 
nifies Useful. 
Pandanus ; trunco breve, foliis magnis, triplici series arma- 
tis; fructibus sessilibus, spicatis obovato-pyriforme. Pericar- 
piorum apicibus muricatis. 
The tunic surrounding the striated portion is the epicarp, 
asit is continuous above with the style. The striated portion 
has a septum above the seed, above which it is hollow and 
empty. 
In the character of Pandanus, the putamen is said to be os- 
seous, in this, it is almost fibrous. 
he placenta is said to be parietal, and the seed to form its 
base; in this, the seed seems to be erect, with a very long se- 
taceous funicle passing down the actual base of the carpella. 
Tegument single, raphe broad, chalaza oval, situated some way 
below the apex, of the seed. 
This is the 4th species of the non-phalangeal group, the 
5th of this place is a genuine Pandanus. 
