Calamus.] 



8^1. PALM.T!. 



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which was referred to 0. flagelhim. Griff, at Kew. Tt has, however, an 

 equable albumen, deeply foveolate, surrounded with a brown spongy 

 covering. The outside of the fruit is as in the description in the Fl. Br, 

 I. 6. 439. Fl. Fr. C. & H. seasons. 



C. pseudo-tenuis, Becc. MSS. Fl. Br. I. 6. 445. Common on the 

 ghiits of North Kanara. Fl. at dilferent times throughout the year. 

 The minute male flowers in short, decurved spikelets and the small, 

 beaked, brown fruit are characteristic. 



86. PANDANEAE. 



Erect or scandent trees or shrubs, often supported by thick aerial 

 roots. Leaves simple, narrow, acuminate, sessile coriaceous, paral- 

 lel-nerved, often spinous-toothed on the margins and midrib. 

 Flowers small, dioecious, in axillary or terminal ; simple or branched 

 spadices, clothed with leafy bracts. Male fl. Perianth 0. Stamens 

 many, filaments free or connate, anthers basitixed, Pistillode 0. Fern, 

 fl. Perianth 0. Ovary 1-celled ; stigmas sessile, ovules solitary or 

 numerous, fruit a globose oblong head of woody or fleshy angular 

 drupes. Seeds minute, albumen hard, fleshy, embryo minute. 



1. PANDANUS, Linn. 



Palm-like trees or shrubs with simple or branched stems. Leaves 

 spinous, elongate, spirally arranged. Male fl. in a compound spadix 

 with numerous yellow or white, keeled spathes. Stamens very 

 numerous, single or united into bundles, anthers elongate, 2-celled. 

 Female fl. Spadix simple, protected by leafy spathes. Ovaries free 

 or connate, 1-celled, stigmas sessile, ovule solitary erect. Drupe 

 fibrous, woody, in compact heads, free or united into bundles. 

 Seed large, strophiolate, albumen fleshy, embryo small, radicle 

 inferior. 



Carpels not united in grorps Stigmas forked, spinous. 



Fruit or syncarp orange-red ... 1. P furcatus^ 



Carpels connate in groups. Stigmas sessile, peltate. 



Fruit or sync arp yellow ..2. P. fascicularis, 



J. P. furcatus, Roxb. Fl. 1. 3. 744; Fl. Br. 1. 6. 484 ; Dalz. & Gibs. 

 Bomb. Fl. 279 ; Rheede Hort. Mai. 2. t. 8. 



Himalaya, Sikkim, Assam, Khasya, Burma and the Malay peninsula, 

 Western peninsula from Bombay southwards; common in the ghat 

 forests of Belgaum and K. Kanara along streams and ualas in marshy 

 situation. A low gregarious tree, forming dense almost impenetrable 

 thickets in marshy places near water courses. Fl. and Fr. Cold and Hot 

 seasons. The yellow spathes of the male spadix are inodorous. 



2. P. fascicularis, Lara. Encycl. 372. t. i. Fl. Br. 16. 486; Dalz. 

 & Gibs. Bomb. Fl. 27; Rheede Hort. Mai. 2. t. 1-8. The Screw Pine. 

 Keura, Vern. Throughout the moister parts of India, common on 



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