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species said to be a native of Bourbon. ON the Kew plant was 
correctly referred to it will perhaps never be known with certainty. It 
was a male plant. and the correct determination “of plants of this sex 
Peu deer difficulties, 
1889 a large plant of Pandanus odoratissimus was received 
from the Oxford Botanic Garden and planted in the Palm house 
immediately opposite the Pandanus reflexus. It died in the following 
November apparently from the same disease as eventually inti ip 
the larger plant. In 1891 it was noticed that the foliage of thi 
somewhat yellowish and unhealthy appearance. The great liés of 
leaves than began one by one to fall over, evidently from a rotting of 
the stem at the “neck.” They were removed but the mischief con- 
tinued and eventually it became necessary to sacrifice the whole 
plant. 
The loss from disease of a large and important specimen in a Botanic 
Pflanzen" (i, pp. clon. He ve. he disease the very abro pfe 
of * der. "andaneen His careful description 
of the progress of the disease exactly agrees with what was observed 
M s k NY: Mis Me het Med "m where | 
the stem appeared to be healthy. The disease extended downwards an 
inwards. All the branches ultimately became affected." 
Curiously enough in the same year a fine screw pine Cae 
utilis) at the Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, succumbed in the same way. 
The director, Dr. Moore, gave an account of it to the Royal Dublin 
Society on March 20, 1871. “Tt was upwards of 50 years old, and had 
branches, having a clean stem for nearly 10 feet," The account which 
Dr. Moore gives of the progressive destruction of the Dublin Plant 
accords exactly with our experience a 
terial from the Kew plant was Eo for ele to. Pistasdr 
Marshall Ward, F.R.S. He reported “ There is no doubt whatever as 
to the main point. I have got into tis heart of the stem, and find a 
perfectly aoe though very slender, mycelium ramifying in the 
cell-walls; as yet I do not see it in the leaves, It is a most murderous 
é beast " avide ty.: 
"v rcg found what can hardly be doubted to have been the 
ame fungus in the Breslau case. He identified it with Melanconium 
pE which Léveillé found aig a Pandanus at Paris in 1845. 
elanconium is, however, only a phase in the life-history of som 
spheriaceous fungus, Other pha ses no dee exist in a less con nspieuous 
form, and it a ai these that the screw pines become infected, . It i 
noticeable that in all the recorded cases ^ plants have attained con- 
siderable een pemn before they are attacked 
Pandanus odoratissimus.—There is no We of the rei oe intro- 
duction. of the kin g qe Eug red this. name, ed a 
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