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in the Kew ee aoe tor ein (p. 4), but it was not accomplished, 
and in the o t by design, till nearly twenty years la l ater. 
The Boii stea respecting them were given in the 
Kew Bulletin for 1895, pp. 319-321. 
Pandanus odoratissimus.—There is no record of the apis 
introduction of the striking plant which, under this 
occupied a conspicuous position at the extreme end of the otek 
wing. Smith mentions its existence eee ‘ds, p. 96) in 1823. 
Unfortunately screw pines grow only from the extremities of 
their branches, and do not when cut in pe new growths b 
the development of ae rasiaan buds. No ordinary horticultural 
uilding can therefore eventually meli on te them, and their 
removal on account of unmanageable size is only a question of 
time. Before its removal the great Kew Screw Pine * had about 
40 branches, each bearing a huge tuft of foliage, and it measured 
30 ft. in height, with a diameter of 40 ft. Its weight would be 
about 6 tons. 
It was a female plant and first fruited in 1883, and produced its 
large heads = fruits about a foot long almost every subse sequens 
season. It was removed in 1894 and was then penne five he 
Up to 1882 its was grown in a tub, and there is a good figure of it 
in that stage in the supplement to the Gardeners’ Chronicle for 
August 5th, 1876. In that year it was lowered into a brick pit 
pa for the purpose and so gained an additional space in 
height of 5 ft. The base of the stem with the mass of aerial roots 
has bos carefully preserved for future exhibition in No. HE 
Museum. An illustration was published in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle for January 5th 95. JP. odoratissimus, Roxb., is 
reduced in the Flora of British India to P. fascicularis, Lam. 
Pandanus reflecus—This was a striking plant of great size 
which stood at the end of the north wing near the staircase. It 
immediately attracted attention from its dense heads of enormous 
stiff sword-shaped leaves. According to Smith (Records, p. 126) 
it was introduced to Kew by Wallich in 1818. P. reflexus is an 
with certainty. It was a male plant, and ped correct determination 
of agis ot this sex presents great difficu 
In July, 1889, a large plant of undated odoratissimus was 
received from the Oxford Botanic Garden and planted in the 
alm House immediately opposite the P. verres It died in the 
following November, apparently from the same disease as event- 
ually also killed the larger plant. In 1891 it was noticed that the 
foliage of this had a rer vaste yellowish and unhealthy ug veces 
The great heads of leaves then began one by one to fall over, 
evidently from a rotting of e»: stem at the * neck." “The 7 were 
a but the mischief continued and eventually it became 
z to sacrifice the whole plant. The disease was almost 
certainly due to the attacks of a fungus, Melanconium Pandani, 
s been very destructive to Screw Pines in European 
Botanic Gardens. 
AROIDS. 
Aroidec are a well-marked order of. Mns "enia: in = 
own flora by the * Cuckoo-pint " ur hedge-ro rows, Som 
