REVISION OF INDIAN SCREWP1NES AND THEIR ALLIES. 97 
Boss, iv. 23G ; Koch, Syn. Fl. Germ. 682 ; Kunth, Berol. ii. 305 : 
ejusd. Enura. PI. iii. 89. 
Hab. East Bengal, Griff, n. 5618 ! ; Assam, Khasya hills, n. 4000- 
6000', /. D. H.t. ; ib. and Nunklow marshes, Simons! ; Sikkim, 
7-9000 ft., /. D. H.f 
N.B. There is also a specimen with very narrow leaves in the Cal- 
cutta herbarium, collected by Simons, but'too incomplete for determi- 
nation. 
PANDANE^E. 
1. Pandanus, Rumph. et Linn, f I 
The genus Pandanus is mentioned first by Kumphius in his Amb. 
Herb. iv. p. 139 seq., where he describes twelve species, one of which 
belongs to Freycinetia, and illustrates some of them. It is however 
not easy to identify the same without visiting that classical locality. 
Bheede's figures of his seven kinds of Kaida, belonging to this genus, 
are far better than those of Bumphius, though his descriptions leave 
much to desire. 
Upon the works of these two authors, principally, Linn, f., founded 
his genus Pandanus, and adopted Bumphius's name. He character- 
ized it, however, so briefly and incompletely, that only his citations 
enable us to recognize what he meant. Since then, the character of 
this genus has been remodelled by several eminent botanists,— as B. 
E rown, Kunth, Endlieher, etc. 
The first botanist who undertook to split this genus, naturally so 
well limited, was Gaudichaud, in his ' Botany of the Borate.' He 
nvides it into not less than sixteen genera, and figures a multitude of 
species. I have not his work at my disposal, and as he gave no de- 
ceptions nor any references but those figures, I am compelled to 
onait them. 
Hasskarl and De Vriese both have endeavoured to multiply the ge- 
nera of Vandanea, by describing a genus already known to Forskal as 
*e«ra, and by Forster so masterly figured as Arthrodactylis, as Doornia, 
J* Vr., and Marqmrtia, Hassk. (later, HasakarUa, Walp.), and De 
"ese adds a new genus, Ryckia. I however shall scarcely have need 
to apologize for reducing all those genera to the old Eumphian genus 
°f Pandanus. 
The distribution of the species of this genus is confined to the Eastern 
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