Freycinetia.} PANDANACEAE. 453 — 
borne at the end of a branch, surrounded by many spathes. Staminodes 
none. Ovaries free, or several connate in phalanges, with 1 laterally 
inserted ovule in each. — Arborescent or fruticose, rarely stemless plants. 
About 50 species, chiefly inhabiting the ria African islands, the Malaysian archipelago 
and Oceania; a single one in the W. Indie 
. P. odoratissimus, L. fil. — Kunth, Enum. Pl. I, 94. — A small 
tree, 10—20 ft. high, the short whitish trunk soon branching in a di- 
iivtomous manner, emitting numerous aerial roots above the base and 
some from the branches. Leaves crowded at the ends of the branches, 
linear, 3—5 ft. long, about 3’ broad at the base, prickly at the margins 
and the keeled midrib, coriaceous. Spadix of male fl. pendulous, 5-—6’ 
long, its bracts white, large ovate-lanceolate, concave. Stamens (10—15) 
connate in fascicles; anthers linear, mucronate. Spadix of fem. /l. solitary, 
surrounded by 3 sets of white imbricate leaf-like bracts, erect, bie 
rup 
or phalanges 50—80, turbinate, angular, 1!/2—2‘ long and 1—I'/«' broad 
at the end, each composed of 5—10 carpels (one in the centre), the flat 
top divided by shallow grooves into as many spaces as there are carpe 8, 
the sessile stigmas at first oblique but finally apical, reniform. Endocarp 
surrounded by copious fibres. — P. verus, sane <urz, in Seem. Journ. 
Bot. V, 125). — P. fascicularis, Lam. — Solms-Laubach, in Linnaea, 
XLII, 37. — Arthrodactylis spinosa, Forst. 
Common in dry plains of the lower regions, but extending up to elevations of 2000 ft. 
Nat. name «Lauala> or <Lauhala», or simply «Hala», so called from the sweet scent 0: 
m: re 
m™m 
teferred also the fruits figured in the Atlas Bot. Voy. Bon eo anata, tab. 22, figs. 9, 
14, 16, under the names P. Chamissonis, P. Menziesti, P. Dow: 
2. FREYCINETIA, Gaud. 
Male fl. on a simple spadix. Stamens numerous round a rudimentary 
germ, the filaments short conical or flexuose. Fem. fl. Spadix simple. 
Oratien numerous, surrounded by short abortive stamens or staminodes, 
each ovary of 2 or several carpids aggregated in a truncate phalange. 
Stigmas 
near the apex, 2- to several-celled, or by absorption of the dividing walls 
1-celled. Seeds imbedded in pulp, oblong or oma mines with a fleshy 
lateral _ — Climbing shrubs of the habit of Pandanus 
ei extending from Ceylon through Malaysia nd Oceania to the Hawaiian 
Islands, “with species each in Australia, Norfolk Island ey New Zealand. 
1. F, Arnotti, Gaud. Bot. Voy. Bon. tab. 36 & 37. — Solms-Law- 
bach, in Linnaea, XLII, 95. — A tall sicioy climber, the stem about 
