Pandanus.] cxlviii. pandane^ (wright). 138 



15. P. barceriauus, Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1894, 324. Syncarps 

 very broadly ovate or almost spherical, up to 5 in. long and 4|- in. in 

 diam. Drupes 5-7-angled and shortly pyramidal at the top, pro- 

 duced in the centre into a short blunt apiculus. — Warb. in Engl. 

 Pflanzenr. Pandan. G7. 



Upper Gruinea. Fernando Po, Barter, 2 ! 



10. P. Teuszii, Warh. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Pandan. 07. Drupe 

 (alone known) 1-2-celled, 14-lin. long, 4-(U- lin. in diam., cuneate-fusi- 

 form, the basal 9 lin. gradually acuminate, the apical 5 lin. shortly 

 pyramidal and angular, scarcely produced at the apex. 



ItO-wer iruinea. Gaboon. Teusz. 



Imperfectly known species. 



17. P. leouensis, Ilort. Lodd. ex Wendl. Index Palm. 40, name- 

 only ; Balf. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 51 ; Eendle in Journ. Bot. 

 1894, 327 ; Warh. in Engl. Pflanzenr. Pandan. 89. 



" Guinea. '* 



18. P. sessiiis, Boj. Hort. Maur. 302, non Wendl. ; Balf. f in 

 Journ. Linn. Soc. xvii. 01 ; Rendle in Journ. Bot. 1894, 327 ; Warh. 

 in Engl. Pflanzenr. Pandan. 90. 



Xldozamb. Dist. Zanzibar and Pemba Islands, e.x Bojer. 



Order CXLIX. TYPHACE^. (By N. E. Brown.) 



Flowers unisexual, monoecious, in dense bracteate heads or spikes. 

 Male flowers with a perianth of 3-0 scales, or without a perianth, but 

 irregularly intermingled with slender narrowly clavate filaments, or 

 spathulate or cuneate scales, which are often variously toothed or lobed. 

 Stamens with free or connate filaments and basifixed, linear, oblong or 

 cuneate> 2-celled anthers, opening by longitudinal slits ; connective 

 sometimes produced beyond the apex of the cells ; no rudiment of an 

 ovary. Female flowers with a perianth of scales or fine hairs, some- 

 times accompanied by slender spathulate or clavate bracteoles. Ovary 

 superior, 1-ceiled, sessile or stalked ; style simple, terminal, persistent ; 

 stigma unilateral, elongate ; ovule solitary, pendulous from the apex of 

 the ceil, anatropous. Fruit sessile or stalked ; pericaip thin and mem- 

 branoas, or thick with a spongy outer layer, and a hard, woody inner 

 layer. Seed albuminous, testa thin ; embryo cylindric, axile. — Peren- 

 nial aquatic or marsh herbs with creeping rhizomes. Leaves alternate, 

 linear or strap-shaped, sheathing at the base ; veins parallel. Flowers 

 small or minute, sessile, bracteolate or ebracteolate, densely crowded 

 into globose heads or cylindric spikes along simple or branched axes, 

 with or without leafy bracts at their base. The male inflorescence 

 terminal . 



A small order of two genera and about 25 species^ very widely dispersed. 



