BOTMICAL IXDEX. 
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This charming Pandanus, from the east coast of Africa, is of compact habit, witli 
numerous narrow leaves finely serrated, slightly twisted in form of growth. The 
leaves, gracefully falling back around the pot in which it grows, are of a pale yellowish- 
green color, becoming a distinct orange at their insertion of the stem, also the little 
thorns which grow along the ribs of the leaf. The lower face of the leaves are covered 
with a fine white powder or dust, which adds much to its distinctive merit. It is a 
very slow grower — the strongest plant of the first few that reached Belgium, making 
only 30 centimetres (12 inches) in height, and 15 millimetres (three-fourths of an 
inch) in breadth, in five years. Pandanus Van Geerti is one of the most distinct and 
beautiful species yet discovered, and has already received several prizes at the Euro- 
pean plant exhibitions. Sent out by August Van Geert, Ghent, Belgium, in 1873, and 
figured in his New Plant Catalogue, from which we have taken the liberty of making 
a copy and this description. 
In the long list of ornamental foliage plants, there are very few that equal the 
Pandanus, the Screw Pine of travelers, and probably none excel a well grown speci- 
men for decorating a conservatory or small greenhouse establishment. They are 
however, comparatively rare in American collections of choice plants, and not suf- 
ficiently known to many of our readers to be familiar; hence, we have chosen one of 
their number to figure as a representative of the genus. But a plant as seen growing- 
in a flower-pot or tub in a greenhouse will convey but a faint idea of the plant or 
