THE FLORA OF SINGAPORE. 171 
P. Howulletii Carr, About 15 feet tall, leaves large, dark 1ed 
when young. Dense jungle, Bukit Timah. 
P. fascicularis Lam. “Pandan Duri.” A large much branched 
plant, with heads of fruit as large as a man's head, bright 
orange. Sea coasts, and often planted. The leaves used 
for mats апа baskets. Common, Changi, Bajau, Blakang 
Mati, Pulau Ubin. 
P. ornatus Kurz. A bush with narrow glaucous leaves. Bukit 
Timah, 
P levis UM * Pandan Jelinkeh," with glancous unarmed 
ves, is eir cultivated, the leaves used to flavour rice, 
й аѕ а регѓише. 
D. parrus п. sp. Pandanus 15 Wook, Fl. Brit, Ind. Vol. vi. 487. 
This has never been completely мо nor named so I 
give a description of it here, Stem 3 feet tall or less, anl 4 
inch in circumference erect grey, emitting long slender roots 
from all parts often producing shoots at the base seldom branch- 
ed higher up. Leaves a foot long and 3 inches wide abruptly 
caudate асишіпа" e, the point 2 inches long very slender dull 
green above glaucous beneath rather thin in ies mue very 
small numerous on the edges and keel at the apex, on the 
keel at the base of the leaf. Male spadix six ehas koni rachis 
white. Bracts oblong boat-shaped keeled mucronate lowest 4 
inches long, the mucro one inch long in the two lowest bracts 
which are ‘empty, the upper bracts smaller with the keel, edges, 
and point green and armed with short stiff spiny bristles. Flow- 
єй bracts 7, softer than the lower ones ivory white spinulose 
ovate to ovate lanceolate, the terminal one flat lanceolate barely 
1 ап inch long. Spikes 5 shorter than the bracts except the ter- 
minal one $ inch long, Stamens free very slender j inch long. 
male spadix solitary globose about 15 inch long ca arpels conic 
ibat кор passing into а long brown shining upcurved spine 
nearly 4 inch long. 
Dry woods, commo Bukit Mandai, Bidadari, Changi, 
Kranji, kingan Pandan, prem Ubin. Also occurs in Johore, 
