Pandanus.'] CLXIY. PANDANEJ;. (Hook, f.) 485 



CEYLON, Thwaites. 



According to a photograph of this plant as growing in the Ceylon Botanical 

 Gardens, it has the habit of P.furcatus bat with a much more slender stem, more 

 erect branches, and narrower leaves. In the dried specimens, the spathes are much 

 smaller, with long slender tips, the anthers much shorter, and the combined filaments 

 very short. The fruit resembles P.fcetidus, but the anthers are very different, about 

 -jL in. long. 



5. P. minor. Ham. in Wall. Cat. 8592 ; dwarf, stem prostrate slender, 

 leaves ensiform flat margins spinulose tips abruptly caudate, spathes 

 navicular apiculate, filaments in palmate clusters, anthers minute, fruit 

 solitary broadly oblong, drupes smooth, crown hemispheric with a small 

 concave central claw-like style. Solms in Linncea, xlii. (1878) 18. P. unguifer, 

 Hook.f. Bot. Mag. t. 6347. 



In hot valleys of the SIZKIM HIMALAYA, ASSAM, SILHET, CHITTAGONG and 

 PEGU. 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thick as the thumb. Leaves subdistichous, 18-24 by 1-2 in., 

 flaccid, marginal spines distant. Fruit shortly peduncled, as large as the fist, 

 yellow. Drupes obovoidly clavate, very smooth; style red. In young fruit, the 

 style is flattened and often forked, much as in P.furcatus. Mdlefl. unknown. 



** Carpels connate in groups. Stigmas sessile, peltate or reniform'. 

 Filaments connate, anthers apiculate or aristate. 



6. P. fascicularis, Lam. Encycl. 372, t. i. ; shrubby, rarely erect, 

 densely branched with copious aerial roots, leaves 3-5 ensiform caudate- 

 acuminate, margin with ascending spinules, anthers interruptedly spicate, 

 fruit large drupes obconic. Kuntk JEnum. iii. 98 ; Solms in Linncea^ xlii. 

 (1878) 38. P. odoratissimus, Boxb. Cor. PL i. 65, t. 94-96 ; Fl. 2nd. iii. 738 ; 

 Kunth I. c. 94, excl. some syn. ; Griff. Notul. iii. 159 : Ic. PL Asiat. t. 174; 

 Kurz For. Fl. ii. 508 ; Presl. Epiwiel. 239. P. Candelabrum, Kurz in Journ. 

 Sot. v. (1867) 127 [non Beauv.']. P. odoratus, Salisb. Prodr. 3. P. verus, 

 Kurz in Seem. Journ. Bot. v. (1867) 125, in Flora, 1869, 453. P. Eheedii, 

 Gaud. Voy. Bonite, Bot. t. 22, f. 12. P. leucacanthus, Hassk. in Flora, 1842, 

 ii. Beibl. 14. Pandanus, Wall. Cat. 8590. Hasskarlia leucacantha, 

 Walp. Ann. i. 753. Bheede Sort. Mai. ii. t. 1-8. 



Throughout the hotter moister parts of INDIA, and much planted for fences. 

 D IST RIB. MALAY ISLDS. and Mauritius, China, Polynesia. 



Stem sometimes erect and 10-12 ft., usually much lower and branching from the 

 base. Leaves drooping, glossy green. Spathes white, fragrant. Fruit 6-8 in. 

 diam., orange yellow or brown. Drupes confluent in groups of 5-20 rarely fewer, 

 very woody, 1^-2 in. long, top rounded or sublobate with a depressed centre bearing 

 a depressed small variously lobulate stigma. I have given only a selection ^of the 

 citations and ' synonyms} of 'IhlsJ 'Widely diffused species. The P. odoratissimus of 

 Vidal, Fl. Forest. Filip. Atlas xlii. t. 95 A appears to differ in the very small fruit 

 and obtuse anthers. Possibly some of the plates of Kheede's " Perin Khaida Taddi," 

 and especially t. 8, may belong to a different species, its carpels are all free ; it is 

 the P. unipapillatus of Dennst. Schluess. Hort. Mai. 23. 



7 P. andamanensium, Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii. ii. 

 (1869) 148 ; in Flora 1869, 452 ; For. Flor. iii. 507 ; trunk 60-70 ft. as thick 

 as the human body, leaves 15-18 ft. by 4-5 in., marginal spines slender, 

 fruit solitary large globose, drupes with a flat or depressed crown and an 

 oblique lamelliform depressed style pungent when dry. Solms in Linnsea, 

 xlii. (1878) 59. P. Leram, Kurz in Seem. Journ. Bot. v. (1867) 105. 



ANDAMAN ISLDS., Kurz. 



Habit of a gigantic P. furctttus; fruit as large as the human head or smaller, 



