506 PANDANER. | Pandanus. 
with a solitary erect ovule attached to the base of the parietal pla- 
centa ; stigmas sessile or raised on a style, various. Drupes fibrous- 
woody, with a fleshy epicarp, arranged into compact heads, free or 
ited into bundles, ae angular- “pyramidal, 1- —— or (in the 
phalangal bundles) with about as many or fewer seeds tha 
thus — — bony, hard. Seeds large, strophiolate, the 
testa whit branous. Albumen fleshy. Embryo small, almost 
basal, the qoilels station. —Simple-stemmed or more usually branched 
palm-like trees or shrubs, with elongate, spirally arranged, often 
spiny-armed leaves. Drupes simple or compound. 
* Drupes simple. 
acne ae, boas nares cvicosonseben with t 
pe ; stamens free; anthers Peli 
Shrubby, 8 sheet : pee quite smooth . P. fetidus. 
Stigmas gene and often Si apres usually 2-3 
sn horny and deciduo stam: palmately 
abe een aristate e lt jee ate 
Large robust ins pote 2-4 in. broad, spiny-armed ; stigmas 
forkedly 2-3 pinay i . PB. fureatus. 
eaayane oda thin-et mmed ; leaves only 3-4 lin. broad, minutely 
; vanes ¢ ery short rt, blunt . P. graminifolius. 
es united into phalanges (rarely the one or ‘other 
Santa ; stigmas sessile or nearly 80, reniform 
or et ; stamens Taaencunarsciad. the anthers 
e. 
X Leaves spiny along the e margins and midrib. 
— ma — 4-5 in. broad, 15-18 ft. long ; phalanges the size 
. P. Leram. 
As forme, but drapes: only 2 in. long; leaves * gradually acu- 
P. Rupe sae 
ects eas or whitish, 3-5 ft. 1 ong : : . : odoratissimus. 
X Leaves with smooth margins. 
As former, Frat all parts wi ithout spines ‘i x A . P. levis. 
. P, fetidus, Roxb.—Tha-hyet, or tau-tha-hyet.—An evergreens 
iialianeas prostrate caulescent shrub, 3-5 ft. high ; —_ 
linear, coriaceous, somewhat flaccid, acuminate, 4-6 ft. long, g 
cous-green, along the margin and beneath along te mi 
or almost straight, wwhstish rather strong; spathes nce our 
yellow, glossy, finely spinulose-ciliate on the margin and on the 
midrib, disagreeably smelling ; stamens free and simple with 
very short filaments , the connective zuoronnte onze be 
drooping, solitary, oblong, varying in e from oe 
— ostrich’s egg, when fully ripe reddish ae fous feshy dps 3 
quite smooth, pyramidate, 5-6-gonous, terminating in 
~ = spinescent persistent stigma. 
—Frequent in the tidal forests from Chittagong, Arracan, and des 
ioe rs “‘Tenasserim.—Fl. C8. ; Fr. June-Nov.—1—S8.=Sal 
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