Pandanm.] CXLIII. PANDANACE^. 1689 



1. P. odoratissimus (very fragrant), Linn.f. Sitppl. 424 ; Bpit/t.Fl. Austr. 

 yii. 148,. Stems from a creeping base arborescent, branched, 15 to 20fi;. 

 high. Leaves 3 to 5ft. long or on young luxuriant individuals twice as 

 long, 2 to Sin. broad, acuminate, bordered by small prickles turned upwards. 

 Male inflorescence terminal, recurved, often above 1ft. long, consisting of 

 about 6 to 20 dense spikes of 1\ to 3in., each one sessile in the axil of a 

 leafy bract, the lowest of which are often 1ft. long and nearly resemble the 

 smaller upper leaves, tapering into a long narrow point, the upper ones gradually 

 smaller with shorter points and whiter, but all much longer than the spikes, the 

 margins serrulate, scabrous but scarcely prickly. Stamens exceedingly numerous, 

 densely covering the rhachis, but the filaments united 10 to 20 together in a 

 column often \va. long, shortly free only at the ends, with linear anthers of l|-to 2 

 lines. Drupes cuneate, hard and woody, 2 to Sin. long, very obtuse, connate in 

 clusters of 8 to 20 and these collected in a globular head 6 to 8in. in diameter, the 

 clusters flat and areolate at the top, the apex of each drupe scarcely prominent, and 

 the remains of the stigmas quite flat, the pericarp when old splitting into fibres at 

 the base. — Eoxb. Corom. Pl.t. 94 to 96 ; P. spiralis, R. Br. Prod. 841, and the 

 numerous synonyms quoted by S. Kurz. in Seem. Journ. Bot. 1867, 125, and in 

 Journ. Asiat. Soc, Bengal, xxxviii. 149, under P. verus, a Rumphian designation 

 used previous to the establishment of the Linnsean nomenclature. 



Hab.: Islands of the Gulf of Carpentaria, F. v. Mueller; Cairns, Nugent. 



This species is widely spread over tropical Asia and the Malayan Archipelago. The single 

 drupes in F. Mueller's specimens as well as the clusters or drupes are much larger than in the 

 usual Indian specimens as observed by Dr. J. B. Balfour, but they show no chr.racter to 

 distinguish them specifically. — Benth. 



2. P. aquaticus (aquatic), F. v. M. Fragm. v. 40 and viii. 220; Benth. Fl. 

 4M«fr. vii. 149. " Ju-kee," Gsbivas, iSliigent. " A-kpo," Mitchell River, Pafo?e;-. 

 Difi'ers from P. odorattissirmis, according to F. v. Mueller in the stem 

 emitting no adventitious descending roots, and in the drupes in the head not 

 cohering in clusters. The male inflorescence is in no respects distinguishable 

 from those of P. odoratissimus, and the want of adventitious roots may occur in 

 many species. — Benth. 



Hab.: Mitchell Eiver, PaZmer ; Cairns, ^w^cnt. 



S. p. pedunculatus (stalked), R. Br. Prod. 341 ; Be7ith. Fl. Austr. vii. 149. 

 " Wynnum," Moreton Bay, Watkins. " Camboor," Cairns, Nugent. Stems 

 emitting stolons at the base, arborescent. Leaves 1-| to 4in. broad, tapering into 

 a long narrow point, the edges prickly. The male inflorescence large on long 

 peduncles, otherwise resembling those of P. odoratissimus, the filaments similarly 

 united in columns of about fin., the free part shorter than the anthers. Rhachis 

 of the female spike or head very thick, obtusely triangular, 2 to 4|in. long, on a 

 thick peduncle of 5in. or more, with the remains of a few leaves or bracts under 

 the head all split into shreds. Drupes in narrow clusters of 7 to 18, about 2in. 

 long, very hard and smooth outside, splitting into fibres with age, the conical 

 apexes of the drupes very prominent at the top, each with the remains of a 

 reniform stigma. 



Hab.: Port Denison, Henne ; Eockhampton, Dallachy ; common along the coast. 



Wood, or the firm outer part of the stem, of a light colour, and prettily marked. Aerial 

 roots and leaves supply good Shie.^Bailey's Cat. Ql. Woods, No. 422. 



4. P. Solms-Iiaubachii (after Solms-Laubach), P\ v. M. in der bot. 



Zeitung, 1887. I have no copy of the work in which Baron Mueller published 

 the description of this species, but in a letter he informed me that it grows 

 to a height of 70ft., the stem much thicker than that of P. pedunculata, 

 while the leaves and fruit are only half the size, the drupes fewer in each syncarp 

 and less connate in the upper part. 

 Hab.: Given as a Oaeensland nlant in Muell. 2nd Syst. Cena. Austr. PI. 202. 



