Pandanus.| PANDANER. 507 
2. P. furcatus, Roxb.—An evergreen palm-like tree (10—30 + 
4—20-+ 1—14), divaricately and sparingly branched, supported at 
the base by strong aéral roots; leaves elongate-linear, 8-15 ft. long 
by 2-4 broad, coriaceous, very acuminate, dark green, armed with 
~ short incurved spines along the margin and beneath on the midrib, 
the spines up to 2 lin. long, complanate, greenish, then brownish ; 
spathes inodorous, thick-coriaceous, very acuminate, spiny-ciliate 
on the borders and beneath on the midrib ; stamens united by 8-14 
into stalked bundles, the connective bristly produced; synearps 
solitary or racemose (if solitary very large, if racemose proportion- 
ally smaller), up to 14 ft. long and half as thick, oblong to ellipti- 
cally oblong, when fully ripe fibrous-fleshy and orange-red ; drupes 
connate, obeonical-pyramidal, 5-6-gonous, convex at the apex, the 
stigmas bony, glossy-brown, spiny 2-3-forked, rarely simple. 
Has.— Frequent in the tropical forest from Chittagong, Pegu, and Martaban 
down to Tenasserim, up to 2, ft. elevation—Fr. C.S.—s.—SS.—Metam. 
SiS., etc. 
3. P, graminifolius, Kz—An evergreen slender screw-pine ; 
leaves narrow-linear, long subulate-acuminate, 1-13 ft. long 
y 3-4 lin. broad, coriaceous densely spinulose on the borders, 
beneath distantly appressed-spinulose on the midrib, the spines 
minute, straight, appressed ; spathes of females slightly spinulose 
on the margin towards the apex; syncarps (unripe) erect, oblong 
or elliptically oblong ; young drupes simple, the stigmas almost 
sessile, 3-gonous. 
Hazs.—Tenasserim. 
4. P, Leram, Jones.—An evergreen tree (30—50+15—30+ 
3—5), supported by long strong aéral roots, more or less cande- 
Has.—Marshy places in the coast forests of the Andamans.—Fr. C.S.—s. 
sium, Kz.—An evergreen tree (40—50+30 
5. P, Andamanen 
—40+2—31), hardly rooted at the base, simple-stemmed or shortly 
branched at the apex ; leaves elongate-linear, coriaceous, 15-18 ft. 
long by 4-5 in. broad, dark green and glossy, long and gradually 
acuminate, thinly spiny on the borders and on the midrib beneath, 
the spines up to } lin. long, curved or almost straight, whitish or 
glossy brown towards the sharp point; syncarps solitary, oval or 
