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PANDAN \» I.. I. 



131 



in. r, with the half-gluma< iu flowers, the simple fruit, the want of -; 



the slit embryo, and the herbaceous sedgy habit of the latter, i; is difficult to withhold 

 our assent from the proposition t" separate them. Brown n mi 

 these have no affinity with Palms beyond their arborescent Btems. But, on thi i 

 Cyclantheaa, which, following Poiteau ami others, 1 formerly adopted, have, with die 

 Btrueture of Pandaneee proper, the foliage of Palma, and are in reality a conn 



en the two Orders. At least, Carludovica evidently is so, as is shown by !i 

 figure in tli- Botanical Magazine, t. -."''.I, and Cyclanthus seems t.. have no peculiarity 

 beyond a curiouB spiral arrangement of its - and j flowers in alterna 



.Mr. Bennett baa pointed out an error made by Gaudichaud, who pla© - th< embr 

 the apex of semitransparent albumen. He states, that it i- certainly at the I 

 Blume has shown in a beautiful figure of Preycinetia imbrical 



able among arborescent monocotyledons for their constant tendency to branch, which i> 

 always effected in a dichotomous manner. Their leaves have also a uniform spiral 

 arrangement round the axis, so as to give the stems a sort of corkscrew appearand 

 before the traces of the leaves are worn away. The Chandelii r Tree of Guinea :. 

 Thomas's derives it- name (Pandanus Candelabrum) from this peculiar tendency to 

 branching. According to F6 (1. 223), Nipa ought t" be referred here, ami i 



Palms, an opinion adopted 

 by Kunth. but not bj I 

 licher. A tiu r ur<- of it « 

 found at p. 133, in a sketch 

 ,,f tli.- \ i _■ tation of 1'.. 

 Tin- Tagua plant, or \ 

 table ivory, referred hith< i 

 by Endlicher and «.: 

 s.-cnis to he a true Palm 

 A.', ording to Mr | 

 the so ds of Freycinetia 

 Pandanus have such an 

 abundance of raphides in 

 their testa, that thos< crys- 

 tals an- conspicuous to the 

 naked eye. 



The Screw-pines an abun- 

 dant ill the -M 

 Islands, especially thi 

 of France, where, under the 

 name of Vaquois, thi 

 found oo\ • ring t: 

 plains. There they 

 peculiar means given them 

 by nature to subsist in • 

 situations in the shaj 

 strong aerial roots, v 

 protruded from tl 

 ami descend towards the 

 .art!.. thi ir tips 



a loose cup-li 

 cellular integumi nt, « 



rv« - thi 

 ly-formed abs 

 injury until they r> ach 

 soil, in which they qu 

 bury th. i 



mini': I \ which 



the unwilling earth, and acting as stays to prevent the stems from bein 



by the wind. They are common in the Indian Archipelago, ami in most 



Of the Old World, but aiv rare in America. //> 



cinetias are sframhlin:: plants, often of considerable stature, found in th. 



pelago and adjacent islands. The Cyclanthese are exclusively American, from ' 



and Brazil. 



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Fig. I.X XXIX. —Fruit o' i ricala 



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