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Pandanus multispicatus Balf. /., in Baker, FI. 
Mauritius and Seychelles 403, 1877; War- 
burg, Engler’s Pflanzenreich IV, 9: 67-68, 
1900; Martelli, Webbia 4(1): 24, 1913 
(sect. Micro stigma') 
SEYCHELLES ISLANDS: endemic. 
Martelli’s record of this species for Reunion 
Island was not confirmed by Vaughan and 
Wiehe (1953: 31). This species has never been 
illustrated. 
Pandanus sechellarum Balf. /., in Baker, FI. 
Mauritius and Seychelles 402, 1877; Mar- 
telli, Webbia 4 ( 1 ) : 30, t. 7, figs. 6^8, 1913 
Fig. 22 
nom. vern.: "vacoa marron.” 
This was collected by Hartman in 1957, but 
since he found only half-grown fruits, his col- 
lection furnished only vegetative characters to 
supplement the known ones, as follows: 
Prop roots present up to 6 dm. from ground; 
leaves 88-90 cm. long, 4-4.2 cm. wide, sub- 
coriaceous, dark green above, paler below, lig- 
ulate, tapering gradually to the acute apex, this 
at the point 10 cm. down 11 mm. wide, AA- 
shaped in section, the enlarged base entire, but 
beginning 10 cm. up the margins with prickles 
1.5-2 mm. long, 7-16 mm. apart, acicular, 
appressed and seeming like a continuation of 
the margin since located above a concavity; the 
nearby midrib unarmed; at the midsection the 
teeth of the margins 1-1.5 mm. long, 11-26 
mm. apart, acicular, appressed ascending; the 
midrib below with prickles 0.5-1 mm. long, 
10-20 mm. apart, acicular, appressed ascending; 
near the tip the margins and midrib below with 
teeth 0.2 mm. long, 3-6 mm. apart, subulate, 
broad based, appressed ascending. 
SEYCHELLES ISLANDS: Mahe Island, opposite 
Souris Island, group of 6-8 trees among granite 
boulders near shore, shaded by coconut palms, 
Nov. 9, 1957, W. D. Hartman 5. 
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