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inches through, carpels small with a very stout simple 

 curved style g- inch long. 



Selangor in the Labu River, forming dense thickets. 

 Native name "Mengkuang Ayer." 

 P. bicornis, n. sp. Stems short, only one or two feet tall. 

 Leaves dark green glaucescent at the top of the stem 2 

 feet or more long 2 inches wide broadly linear and tapering 

 quickly into a very thorny tail 8 inches long, edge and 

 keel armed especially at the base with numerous recurved 

 thorns. Female bracts broad ovate, outer ones rather 

 abruptly acuminate 6 inches long with a slender point 2 

 inches long thorny, inner bracts obtuse, head solitary 

 oblong rounded at the top -i inches long and nearly as 

 broad green, carpels nearly J inch through | inch long 

 top broad free obscurely angled. Style broad short with 

 two spreading short sharp hoins with broad bases about 

 ^ inch long. 



Perak, Thaiping Hills in dense forest at 2500 to 3000 

 feet altitude. 

 P. aurantiacus, n. sp. A large branching shrub with stems 2 or 

 3 inches through and about 12 feet tall. Leaves over 3 

 feet long, 1^ inch wide, glaucous green, linear Ions: acu- 

 minate, tips deilexed, with numerous close-set short thorns 

 on the edge and keel. Female inflorescence with a stout 

 rachis about a foot long and five globose oblong heads 2^ 

 inches long 1 inch through, orange colored. Carpels 

 large f inch long, apex conic ending in a long stout but 

 not very hard beak. 



Singapore, Bukit Mandai Road ; Johore, Tanjong 

 Bunga (G288 of my collection); Perak. Larut Hills; 

 also in Sarawak. 



This grows on swamps on river banks usually near 

 the sea, and is known in Johore as "Pandan Akar". This 

 may possibly be the P. Yvani of Solms-Laubach (Linntea 

 XLII, 20) based on a plant collected by Yvan in 

 Malacca, but the description is too poor to identify any 

 pandan. 

 P. stelliger, n. sp. A slender stemmed pandan 4 to 10 feet tall, 

 branched. Leaves linear acuminate shining grey green 



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