Pandanus.1 clxit. pasdane^. (Hook, f .) 485 



CeyIiON, Thwaites. 



According to a photograpli of tliU plant as growing in the Ceylon Botanical 

 Gardens, it has the habit of P. furcalus but with a much more slender stem, more 

 erect branches, and narrower leaves. In the dried specimens, the spathes are much 

 smaller, with long slender tips, the anthers much sliorter, and the combined filaments 

 very short. The fruit resembles P.fcetidus, but the anthers are very different, about 

 •^ in. long. 



5. P. minor, Ba»». i« Wall. Oat. 8592 ; dwarf, stem prostrate slender, 

 leaves ensiform flat margins spinuloae tips abruptly caudate, spathea 

 navicular apioulate, filaments in palmate clusters, anthers minute, fruit 

 solitary broadly oblong, drupes smooth, crown hemispheric with a small 

 concave central claw-like style. Bolms in Linncea, xlii. (1878) 18. P. unguif er, 

 Eook.f. JBot. Mag. t. 6347. 



In hot valleys of the Sieeim Himalaya, Assam:, SiIiUEt, CHiTXAGOKa and 

 Pkof. 



Stem 2-3 ft., as thiclc as the thumb. ieatJSS subdistichous, lS-24 by 1-2 in., 

 flaccid, marginal spines distant. IVuit shortly peduncled, as large as the fist, 

 jellow. Drupes obovoidly clavate, very smooth; style red. — In young fruit, the 

 style is flattened and often forked, much as in F.furcatus. Malefl. unknown. 



** Carpels connate in groups. Stigmas sessile, peltate or reniform. 

 Filaments connate, anthers apioulate or aristate. 



6. P. fascicularis, Lam. Encycl. 372, t. i. ; shrubby, rarely erect, 

 densely branched with copious aerial roots, leaves 3-5 ensiform caudate- 

 acuminate, margin with ascending spinules, anthers interruptedly spicate, 

 fruit large drupes obconic. Kunth Enum. iii. 98 ; Solms in Linncsa, xlii. 

 (1878) 38. P. odoratissimus, Boxb. Cor. PL i. 65, t. 94-96 ; Fl. Ind. iii. 738 ; 

 Kunth I. c. 94, excl. some syn. ; Qriff. Notul. iii. 159 : Ic. PI. Asiat. t. 174 ; 

 £urz For. Fl. ii. 508 ; Presl. Epimel. 239. P. Candelabrum, Kurz in Journ. 

 Bot. V. (1867) 127 [non Beauv.^. P. odoratus, Salish. Prodr. 3. P. verus, 

 Kurz in Seem. Journ. Bot. v. (1867) 125, in Flora, 1869, 453. P. Bheedii, 

 Oaud. Voy. Bonite, Bot. t. 22, f. 12. P. leucacanthus, Hasaik. in Flora, 1842, 

 ii. Beibl. 14. — JPandanus, Wall. Gat. 8590. Hasakarlia leucacantha, 

 Walp. Ann. i. 753.— iBAeede Sort. Mai. ii. t. 1-8. 



Throughout the hotter moister parts of India, and much planted for fences.— 

 DlSTRiB. Malay Islds. and Mauritius, China, Polynesia. 



Stem sometimes erect and 10-12 ft., usually much lower and branching from the 

 base. Leaves drooping, glossy green. Spathes white, fragrant. Fruit 6-8 in. 

 diam., orange yellow or brown. Drupes confluent in groups of 5-20 rarely fewer, 

 very woody, 1^-2 in. long, top rounded or sablobate with a depressed centre bearing 

 a depressed small variously lobulate stigma.— I have given only a selection of the 

 citations and synonyms of this widely difl'used species. The P. odoratissimus of 

 Vidal PI. Forest. Pilip. Atlas xlii. t. 95 A appears to difi'er in the very small fruit 

 and obtuse anthers. Possibly some of the plates of Bheede's " Perin Khaida Taddi," 

 and especially t. 8, may belong to a diff'erent species, its carpels are all free ; it is 

 the P. unipapillatus of Dennst. Schluess. Hort. Mai. 23. 



7 P. andamanensium, Kurz. in Journ. As. Soc. Beng. xxxviii. ii. 

 (1869) 148 ■ in Flora 1869, 452 ; For. Flor. iii. 507 ; trunk 60-70 ft. as thick 

 as the human body, leaves 15-18 ft. by 4i-5 in., marginal spmes slender, 

 fruit solitary large globose, drupes with a flat or depressed crown and an 

 oblique lamelliform depressed style pungent when dry. Solms inUnnsea, 

 xlii. (1878) 59. P. Leram, Kurz in Seem. Journ. Bot. v. (1867) 105. 



Andaman Islds., Kan. „ ., , ,u , , j n 



Habit of a gigantic F. fiircatus ; fruit as large as the human head or smaller, 



