EXPLANATION OF PLATE V 
r.'^. 1. Fandanus.* Screw-pine. Dioecious tree of South America, 24 feet in height. 
Jerlile plant. Stype cylindric, rectilinear, vertical, branches at tlie bummit. Leavet 
tenninal, crowded, spiral, elongated, amplexicaulis, acunjinate, bordered with spinose 
teeth. Fruit sorose, peduncled, axillary, large, round, woody, composed of a great num- 
ber of small pericarps of an hexagonal ifigure. The name Pandanus is from tlie Malay 
word pandang. The common name is given from the direction of the grain of the bark, 
which runs spirally. 
Fig. '2, \imzovno\{\mavgleA A low tree of South America, which grows in salt 
marshes, and at the mouths of rivers near the sea. It puts forth two kinds of branches, 
tlie one bearing leaves, and forming the head of the tree; tiie other aphyllous, stolonif- 
erous, and inclining downwards, at length taking root and producing new shoots which 
become perfect plants. Branches opposite. Leaves opposite. Seeds germinating in the 
fruit still susi)ended Irom the branches, and producing clavate radicles twelve or fourteen 
Indies in length ; these, detaching themselves from the cotyledon wliich remains en- 
closed in the pericarp, fall, and planting themselves in the earth, develop a new trunk 
and branches. «, shows a shoot germinating. 
Fig. 3. Bromelia ananas.X Pineapple. An herbaceous, perennial plant, four feet 
high ; it is a native of Soutii America and the West Indies. Leaves radical, coriaceous, 
channelled, ensiform, long, denticulate. Teeth spinose. Scape short. Sorose, ovate, 
Bucculent, sli mounted with a crown of leaves. This plant belongs to Ilexandria 
Monogynia. 
Fig. 4. TnEoniRASTA americana. (Family of the Apoctnete.)^ Shrub of South 
America, four feet high. Trunk very simple, spinose. Leaves crowning, verticillate, 
elongated, obcrenulate, denticulate. Fruit spherical. 
* Belonging to the family PandimeEB of Brown and De Ciindolle ; somewhtit allied to Typhse in its 
frnctificalion, and to the Palms in its arborescent stem. 
t The Mangrove tribe, or RhizopliorejE of Brown and De Candolle ; described as "natives of the 
ihores of tlie tropics, where tliey root in tiie mnd, and form a dense thicket to the verge of the ocean.'' 
1 Of the family Bromeiiaceee, or Pineapple tribe ; Lindley says, " the habit of the i5romeliaceaj is pe 
culiar: they are hard, dry-leaved plniits, having a calyx, the rigidity of which is strongly contrasted 
with tlie delicate texture of the petals." 
§ Lindley follows Brown in placing this in the order Myrsinese. He considers it as nea ly related tn 
PntnulacetB llirough some of the genera of that order, and to Sapoteaj through the genus lo'^quinia. 
