PAN' 



PAP 



■the oilier sorts ; bat the petals are broader, the germs, sessile, five-cornered, convex at top, 

 tube is shorter, and the stamens are not so long smooth: style none: stigmas two, cordate, mar- 

 as the petals: there is a thin sheath, which gined: the pericarpiuma sub-globular truit, large, 

 splits open longitudinally. It is a native of consisting of numerous wedge-shaped drupes, 

 Amboyna. convex at top, angular, farinaceous, one-seeded : 

 There are several varieties : as the American, the seed solitary, oval, even, in the centre ot the 

 which grows naturally in the islands of the West drupe. 



Indies,where it is called White Lily ; and the The species is P. odoratissimtis, Sweet-sccnt- 



latifoluim and ovatum also grow naturally in cd Pandanus, or Scrw Pine, 

 the same place. This is sometimes found with a single and 



The eighth species has the leaves a foot and pretty erect trunk of ten feet in height, and a 

 a half long, half an inch w ide : the scape erect, branching round head ; but is generally in form 

 compressed, a foot high : thespathes oblong-lau- of avery large, branching, spreading bush. From 

 certlate, acuminate, whitish, shrivelling; the outer the steins or larger branches issue large carrot- 

 larger, an inch and half in length : the flowers shaped blunt roots, descending till they come to 

 fragrant, on three-cornered pedicels, scarcely the ground, and then dividing : the substance of 

 haff an inch long. It is a native of the East the most solid is something like that of a cab- 

 Indies ; flowering from June to August. bage stalk, and by age acquires a woody hardness 



Culture. — All these plants are capable of be- on the outside : the leaves are confluent, stem- 



iog increased by planting off-sets from the roots clasping, closely imbricated in three spiral rows, 



in the latter end «f summer, when their stems round the extremities of the branches, bowing, 



and leaves decay. The roots may be divided 

 -every second or third year. 



In the two first sorts, the off-sets may be plant- 

 ed out in nursery-beds for a year or two, to be- 

 come sufficiently strong, when they may be re 



from three to five feet long, tapering to a very 

 long fine triangular point, very smooth and glossy ; 

 margins and back armed with very fine sharp 

 spines ; those on the margins point forward ; 

 those of the back point sometimes one way, 



moved into warm sheltered dry borders ; the first sometimes the other, 



being sheltered from frost in severe winters, and The male flowers are in a large, pendulous, 



the latter in very severeweather, by being covered compound, leafy raceme, the leaves of which are 



with tanner's bark, straw, or peas-haulm. The white, linear-oblong, pointed and concave, 



second sort may also be increased by seeds sown The female flowers are on a different plant, 



in pots, and plunged in a hot-bed. terminating and solitary, having no other calyx 



The other sorts must be planted out in small or corolla than the termination of the three rows 



pots filled with light earth, separately plunging of leaves forming three imbricated fascicles of 



them in the bark-bed of the stove. They should white floral leaves, like those of the male raceme, 



he kept constantly in the tan-bed, and have the which stand at equal distances round the base of 



management of other tender bulbs. In this way the young fruit. It is a native of the warmer parts 



they generally succeed well. of Asia, flowering chiefly during the rainy sea- 



The two first sorts aflbrd variety in the dry son ; it is much employed there for hedges, and 

 warm borders of the pleasure-ground, and the answers well, but takes much room. The ten- 

 other kinds produce variety as well as fragrance der white leaves of the flowers, chiefly those of 

 in the stove collections. the male, yield that most delightful fragrance 



PANDANUS, a genus containing a plant of for which they are so generally esteemed ; and 



Jhc herbaceous perennial exotic kind, for the of all the perfumes, it is by far the richest and 



ftove. most powerful. 



and 



Dioecia 



It belongs to the class 

 Mpnandrm. 



The characters are : that in the male the calyx 

 has alternate spathes, sessile, serrate-spiny: spa- 

 dix decompound, naked: pcrianthium -proper 

 none: corolla none: the stamina have very many 

 filaments, solitary, placed scatteredly on the outer 

 ramifications of the spadix, very short : anthers 

 oblong, acute, erect: in the female, the calyx has 

 four spathes, terminating, converging: spadix glo- 

 bular, covered \\hh numerous fructifications, 



Culture. — This plant may be increased by 

 sowing the seeds, brought from the places where 

 it grows naturally, in pots of light earth, and 

 plunging them in the bark-bed of the stove, 

 where they must be constantly retained, having 

 the management usually practised for Dthei 

 tender exotic plants. 



They have a fine ornamental effect among 

 other stove plants, in their large spreiding 

 foliage. 



PA PAVER, a genus containing plants of the 



scarcely included: peiianthium none : there is no hardv herbaceous fibrous-rooted annual and pcr- 

 .corojla : the pis till um has numerous aggregate cnnial kinds, 



