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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 
Houlleltianus , 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 
feet tall. The head of fruit is oblong about 2 feet long and 
when ripe is orange coloured, and becomes pulpy having a very 
pleasant taste something like that of a pineapple. It is seldom to 
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 itseli 
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, 
but specimens planted out in the Gardens have, like Veitchii, become 
altogether green leaved. 
P. ornatus is a native of Singapore, it is a narrow grassy-leaved 
plant forming a bush about eight feet tall, the leaves are very 
long and narrow, and of a glaucous grey colour. Another pretty 
narrow-leaved species is P. grantinifolidis of Burmah. This grows 
with great rapidity, and a plant in the damp ground of the 
Economic Gardens has formed a low thicket about three feet tall 
and occupies an area of 646 square feet. Its leaves are about 
22 inches long by less than i inch broad and of a deep green. 
It is a very pretty pot plant. 
P. Sp. — A native of the Selangor hills, has rather narrow leaves 
of a polished grey colour, and another species has when young dark 
almost black leaves. 
P. parvus is one of the smallest species having a stem about four 
feet tall and rather broad grey green leaves ending abruptly in a 
long tail. It is a native of Singapore. 
P. penangensis is a large plant with a stout stem about twenty 
feet tall and long and broad leaves, which when young are rather 
light green, mottled with a darker colour. It is a native of 
Penang hill. 
A very fine species is the broad-leaved P. macrophyllus of New 
Guinea which has very broad bright polished green leaves. 
