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PANDANACEJ3. 



[Endogexs. 



The seeds of Pandanus are eatable. The flowers of Pandanus odoratissimus are 

 fragrant and eatable, and are reckoned in India aphrodisiac. The juice of Nipa, as it 

 flows from the pounded spadices, furnishes one of the inferior kinds of Palm wine. 

 Some plant of this Order is probably the " Palm " mentioned by Mr. Drummond as having 

 a fruit which the natives of the Swan River find wholesome when fermented for some 

 time, but which without preparation, produces violent vomitingand other dangerous symp- 

 toms. Hook. Journ. 356. The fruit of several is also an article of food. The leaves are 

 used for thatching and cordage, and their juice is employed in diarrhoea and dysentery. 

 The immature fruit is reputed emmenagogue. — Humb. 1 . c. 



GENERA. 



I. — Pandanece. Leaves 

 simple. Flowers naked. 



Pandanus, Linn. fil. 

 Arthrodactylis. Forst. 

 Keurva, Forsk. 



Marquartia, Ifassk. 

 Freyciuetia, Gaudich. 



II. Cyclanthece. Leaves 

 flabellate or pinnate. 



Flowers usually fur- 

 nished with a calyx. 



Carludovica, Ruiz etPav. 

 Ludovia, Pers. 

 Salmia, Willd. 



Nipa, Rumph. 

 Cyclanthus, Poit. 



Cyclosanthes, Popp. 

 Wettinia, POpp. 



Numbers. Gen. 7. Sp. 75. 



Position. — Araceae. — Pandanace^e. — Typhaceee. 

 Palmacea. 



The unexpanded leaves of Carludovica palmata yield the material from which the 

 far-famed " Panama hats " are plaited. This species of Carludovica is distinguished 

 from all others by being terrestrial, never climbing, and bearing fan-shaped leave?. 

 The leaves are from 6 to 14 feet high, and their lamina about 4 feet across. In the 

 Isthmus, the plant is called Portorico, and also Jipijapa, but the latter appellation is 

 most common, and is diffused all along the coast as far as Peru and Chili ; while in 

 Ecuador a whole district derives its name from it. — Seemann. 



ADDITIONAL GENERA 



Hasskarlia, Walp. = Marquartia. 



Pandanophyllum, Has.?/:. 



Parrotia, Gaud. 



Bryaatia, Id. 



Dorystigma, Id. 



Euduxia, Id. 



Fisquetia, Id. 



Poullioya, Id. 



Heterostigma, Id. 



Hombronia, Id. 

 Jeannerettia, Id. 

 Joinvillaea, Id. 

 Roussinia, Id. 

 Souleyetia, Id. 

 Sussea, Id. 

 Tuckeya, Id. 

 Vinsoma, Id. 

 Victoriperrea, Homhr. 



