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parts of the world for their elegant and often variegated foliage. 

 They are very easy to cultivate, being propagated by cuttings 

 which grow very readily. When planted out they are apt to be 

 attacked here by a moth-caterpillar which I have not succeeded in 

 rearing, which attacks the growing bud, and biting through the 

 tender part of the shoot destroys it so that the leaves fall out of the 

 bud. The caterpillar chiefly' attacks the broad-leaved species. 

 They are also often troubled with attacks of scale insects which are 

 very troublesome to get rid of. 



Among the ornamental species may be mentioned Pandanus 

 Hoiilleltianus, a native of Singapore in which the broad linear 

 leaves are especially when young of a beautiful purple tint. It is 

 a rather large species with a little branched stem about 12 or 15 

 The head of fruit is oblong about 2 feet long and 



orange coloured, and becomes pulpy havi 



pleasant taste something like that of a pineapple/ It is seldom 

 be seen in fruit however. 



Pandanus Veitchii of gardens is a white striped variety of 

 P-javanicus, frequently the leaves are entirely white. It has long 

 been in cultivation in Singapore, but eventually if left to itself 

 forms a large low irregular spreading thicket of green leaves only. 



Pandanus Sanderiana, a recently introduced species is also edged 

 with white with a yellowish tinge and is a very handsome plant, 

 out specimens planted out in the Gardens have, like Veitchii, become 

 altogether green leaved. 



v\L° r c naiUS isa ^tive of Singapore, it is a narrow grassy-leaved 

 En ™ min S a bush about ei g ht feet tall > the leaves are very 

 na g and "arrow, and of a glaucous grey colour. Another pretty 

 ^rrow-leaved species is Pgraminif alius of Burmah. This grows 



b great rapidity, and a plant in the damp ground of the 

 ^onom.c Gardens has formed a low thicket about three feet tall 

 ,7 occupies an area of 646 square feet. Its leaves are about 



inches long by less than h inch broad and of a deep green. 

 a ver y P^tty pot plant, 

 of a' S v'Z A native of the Selangor hills, has rather narrow leaves 

 almost black f™ 7 a " d another species haS when y ° Ung dafk 



kttf a \] VUS is ° ne of the smallest species having a stem about four 

 W *!■ an , d rather broad g re y g reen le aves ending abruptly in a 



8 iau - It is a native of Singapore. 

 ^t\\ angensis is a lar S e P lant with a stout stem about twenty 



i»eht J and lon s and broad leaves > which when y° un s are rather 



Pe\uu| kjjj' mot tled with a darker colour. It is a native of 



Gume^ K fin f Species is the broad-leaved P. macrophyllus of New 

 Vftlch ha -s very broad bright polished green leaves. 



