EXPLANATION OF PLATE V. 
Fig. 1. Pandakus.* Screw-pine. Dicscious tree of South America, 24 feet in 
height. Fertile plant. Stype cylindric, rectilinear, vertical, branches at the summit. 
Leaves terminal, crowded, spiral, eloni^ated, amplexicanlis, acuminate, bordered 
with spinose teeth. Fruit sorose, peduncled, axillary, large, round, woody, composed 
of a great number of small pericarps of an hexagonal figure. The name Pandanns is 
from ihe Malay word, pandariif. The common name is given from the direction of 
the grain of the bark, which runs spirally. 
Fig. 2. llnizoPHORA mangle^ A low tree of South America, which grows in salt 
marshes, and at the moutlis of fryers near the sea. It puts forth two kinds of branches, 
the one bearing leaves, and forming the head of the tree; the other aphyllous, stolo- 
p.iferous, and inclining downvv^ards, at length taking root and producing new shoots 
which become perfect plants. Branches opposite. Leaves opposite. Seeds germi- 
nating in the fruit still suspended from the branches, and producing clavate radicles 
twelve or fourteen inches in length; these, detaching themselves from the cotyledon 
which reniams enclos-^d in the pericarp, fall, and planting themselves in the earth, de- 
velop a new trunk and branches, a, shows a shoot germinating. 
Fig. ?.. Beomelia ananas.t Pineapple. An herbaceous, perennial plant, 4 feet 
high; it is a native of South America and the West Indies. Leaves radical, coria- 
ceous, channelled, ensifonu, long, denticulate. Teeth spinose. Scape short. Soi'ose, 
ovate, succulent, surmounted with a crown of leaves. This plant belongs to Hexan- 
dria Monogynia. 
Fig. 4. Theophrasta a.??iericana. (Family of the ilpoci?iece.)§ Shrub of South 
America, four feet high. Trunk very simple, spinose. Leaves crowning, verticillate, 
elongated, obcrenulate, denticulate. Fruit spherical. 
* Be'ontring to the family Pandanote of Brown and De Candolle ; somewhat allied to Typhse in its fructifi- 
cation, and to tlie Palms in its arborescent stem. 
t The Mangrove tribe, or lihiz ophureae of Brown and De Candolle ; described as " natives of the shores of 
the tropics, wh.Te they root in the mud, au'i form ti donso thicket to the verse of the ocean." 
I Of the family BromcliacoaB, or Pineapple tribe : Lindley says, " the habit of the Bmmeliaceae is pecu- 
liar: they are hard, dry-leaved plants, having a calyx, the rigidity of which is strongly contrasted with the 
delicate texture of the petals." 
§ Lindley follows Brown in placing this in the order Myrsinece. He considers it as nearly related to Pri- 
Kiulacoje through some of th<^ genera of that order, and to Sapotc« through the genus Jacquinia. 
