PAN 



PAP 



tW oilier sorts ; but the petals are broader, the germs, sessile, five-cornered^ convex at top, 

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



as the petals: there is a thin sheath, which 

 splits open longitudinally. It is a native of 

 Aniboyna. 



There are several varieties : as the Amerkan, 

 which grows naturally in the islands of the West 

 Indiesjwherc it is called IVhite Lilij ; and the 

 lalif'olnim and ovatum also grow naturally in 

 the same jilace. 



The eighth S]jecies has the leaves a foot and pretty erect irunk of ten feet in height, and a 

 a half lontr, half an inch wide : the scape erect, branching round head ; but is generally in iorni 

 compressed, a foot high ; the spsthes oblong-lan- of a verv larse,. branching, spreading bush. From 

 ceolate, acuminate, whitish, shrivelling; theouter the stems or larger branches issue large carrot- 

 larger, an inch and half in length : the flowers shaped blunt roots, descending til! they come to_ 

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

 half an inch ionff. It is a native of the East the most solid is sometliing like that of a cao- 



gined: the pericarpiuma sub-globular fruit, large, 

 consisting of numerous wedge-shaped drupes, 

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

 the seed solitary, oval, even, in the centre of the 

 drupe. 



'fhe species is P. oduralissimus, Sweet-scent- 

 ed Pandanus, or Screw Pine. 



This is sometimes found with a 



single and 



Indies ; flowering from June to August. 



Culture. — All these plants are capable of be- 

 ing increased bv planting otf-sets from the roots 

 in the latter end of sunnner, when their stems 

 and lea\'es decay. The roots may be divided 

 every second or thiid year. 



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

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

 come sufficiently strong, when they may be re- 

 moved into warm sheltered dry borders ; the first 

 being sheltered from frost in severe winters, and 



bagc stalk, and by age acquires a woody hardness 

 on^the outside : the leaves are confluent, stem- 

 clasping, closely imbricated in three spiral rows, 

 round the extremities of the branches, bowing, 

 from three to five feet long, tapering to a very 

 lontT fine triangular point, very smooth and glossy; 

 niai~gins and t)ack armed with very fine sharp 

 spines ; those on the margins point forward ; 

 those of the back point sometimes one way, 

 sometimes the other. 



Tlie male flowers are in a large, pendidous. 



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



^vith 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 difierent 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, 



be 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 ramy sea- 



The two first sorts afford 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 ercnus containing a plant of for which they are so generally esteemed ; and 



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



gtove. 



It, belongs to the class and order Dioecia 

 JSioiiamhid. 



The characters are : that in the male the calyx 

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

 dix decompound, naked: perianthiuin proper 

 none: corolla none: the stamina have very many 

 filaments, solitary, placed scatteredlv on the outer 

 ramificatiims of the spadix, very short : ambers 

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

 four spathes, terminating, converging : spadix glo- 

 bular, covered with numerous fructifications, 



most powerful 



CuUure. — This plant may be increased by 

 sowincthc seeds, brought from the places where 

 it grows naturally, in pots of light earth, and 

 pliTnging them in the bark-bed of the sli)ve, 

 where they must be c(mstanl!y retained, having 

 the management usually practised tor other 

 tender exotic plants, 



Tiicy have a fine ornamental effect among 

 other stove plants, in their large sprejdmg 

 foliage. 



PilPAVFR, a genus containing plants of the 



scarcely included: peiianthium none : ihereisno hardv herbaceous fibrous-rooted annual and pcr- 

 corolla ; tjie pislillum has numerous aggregate ennial kinds. 



