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P. TTouJIeiii Carr. About 15 feet tall, leaves large, dark led 

 when young-. Dense jungle, Bukit Timah. 



P. fafictculari* Lam. " Pandan Duri." A large much branched 

 plant, with heads of fruit as large as a man's heai, bright 

 orange. Sea coasts, and often planted. The leaves used 

 for mats and basket^. Common, Changi, Bajau, Blakang 

 Mati, Pulau Ubin. 



P. ornafu* Kurz. A bush with narrow glaucous leaves. Bukit 

 Timah. 



P Icevis Rumph. " Pandan Jelinkeh," with glaucous unarmed 

 leaves, is often cultivated, the leaves used to flavour rice, 

 and as a perfume. 



P. parvus n. sp. Pandanus 15 Llook. Fl. Brit. Ind. Vol. vi. 487. 



This has never been completely described nor named so I 

 give a description of it here. Stem 3 feet tall or less, anl ^ 

 inch in circumference erect grey, emitting long slender roots 

 from all parts often producing shoots at the base seldom branch- 

 ed higher up. Leaves a foot long and 3 inches wide abruptly 

 caudate acumina'e, the point 2 inches long very slender dull 

 green above glaucous beneath rather thin in texture, spines very 

 small numerous on the edges and keel at the apex, none on the 

 keel at the base of the leaf. Male spadix six inches long, rachis 

 white. Bracts oblong boat-shaped keeled mucronate lowest 4 

 inches long, the mucro one inch long in the two lowest bracts 

 which are empty, the upper bracts smaller with the keel, edges, 

 and point green and armed with short stiff spiny bristles. Flow- 

 ering bracts 7, softer than the lower ones ivory white spinulose 

 ovate to ovate lanceolate, the terminal one flat lanceolate barely 

 i an inch long. Spikes 5 shorter than the bracts except the ter- 

 minal one | inch long. Stamens free very slender J inch long. 

 Female spadix solitary globose about 1-J inch long carpels conic 

 rather abruptly passing into a long brown shining up curved spine 

 nearly J inch long. 



Dry woods, common. Bukit Mandai, Bidadari, Changi, 

 Kranji, Sungei Pandan, Pulau Ubin. Also occurs in Johore, 



