JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY 



Part II— PHYSICAL SCIENCE. 

 No. Ill— 1869. 



Remarks on the species of Pandanus ; by S. Kurz, Esq., Curator of 



the Calcutta Herbarium. 



[Received and read, 4th November, 1868.] 



Since the publication of my revision* of Indian screw-pines, and 

 their allies, in Seemann's Journal of Botany, Vol. V. p. 93 etc., I had 

 the opportunity of consulting G-audichaud's work, " Voyage autour 

 du monde sur la Eonite," and this gives me an opportunity for a few 

 additional remarks. 



Although I am at present unable to recognize several of G-audi- 

 chaud's species, the study of the carefully executed plates of this 

 work have considerably added to my knowledge of screw-pines. From 

 the analyses of Freycinetia and Sussea it appears quite clear, that the 

 Pandanem and Freycinetiece cannot be separated from each other, as 



* In this paper some errors and omissions have crept in, which I now take 

 the opportunity of correcting. 



Typha elephantina p. 95, read: folia... basi triquetra lateribus concavis, 

 supra plana ; instead " excavato-trigona." 



II. Pandaneae, p. 94, add : Ovarium superum. 



III. Cyclantheae, p. 94, add : Ovarium inferum. The Freycinetieae are to 

 be transferred to II, Pandaneae. 



Pandanus furcatus, var. Indica, p. 102, read : drupae valde convexae, for 

 " concavae." 



Pandanus laevis, p. 127, read : spadix masc. etc., sed hae laevissimae, in- 

 stead " brevissimae." 



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