475 

 ORDER CLXXVIII. FANDAN ACEiE. 



Flowers monoecious or dioecious, sometimes polygamous, 

 densely packed on simple or branched spadices, spathe 1 or 

 more leaved, usually coloured, persistent or deciduous. 

 Males, — Calyx none or regular : stamens numerous : filaments 

 filiform : anthers terminal, 2 — 4-celled, dehiscing lengthways. 

 Females. — Ovaries almost naked, 1-celled: ovules solitary, 

 ascendLag, anatropal : style none or sometimes lateral from 

 the base of the ovary : stigma terminal, sessile, undivided : 

 fruit baccate or drupaceous, cells one or many-seeded : seeds 

 very small, usually furnished with a fleshy tubercle-shaped 

 cord : albumen copious, fleshy or horny : embryo very small, 

 enclosed at the base of the albumen : radicle next the hilum, 

 inferior. — Stems usually arborescent, straight, decumbent, 

 sometimes stoloniferous or rooting : leaves packed close 

 together, alternate, usually imbricated, simple, long, pinnate 

 or palmatifid, half-sheathing with the petiole. 



GENUS I. PANDANUS. 



Dioeela. mConandvia. Sex: 8yst: 



Berin. From Pandang, a word in the Malay language, meaning 

 conspicuous. 



Geit. Chae. Mowers diosoious. Males. — Spadix compound, 

 thyrsoid : stamens numerous, packed close : anthers 2-ceUed. 

 Females. — Spadix simple : ovaries numerous, densely packed to- 

 gether, free or connate in ranks, 1-ovuled : ovule ascending from 

 the base of the parietal placenta : stigmas sessile, distinct : drupe 

 fibrous, 1 -seeded : putamen bony : seed erect : testa membra- 

 naceous : raphis filiform, obsolete. — Stem arboreous, straight, often 

 bearing suckers : leaves imbricated in three rows, long linear- 

 lanceolate, stem-clasping, usually spinous at the margins : spathes 

 packed close, often coloured, projecting the spadices from the axU. 



(1) P. OBOEAIISSIMTJS. (Linih.) . 

 Ident. Ham. Suppl. 424.— Rozb. flor. Ind. III. p. 738. 



P. vera. Bimph. — Eeura odorifera, Forsk. descr. 172. 

 Eheede Mai. II. t. 1—5. 



