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Fig. 250 b. Pandanus pluriloculatus St. John, holotype. Top, middle portion of trunk, with narrow-leaved, 
lateral, fertile branches; bottom, trunk apex, showing lateral fertile branches and the terminal plume of large 
leaves. 
but below them most of the length of the trunk 
with many, equal, short branchlets with numer- 
ous narrow leaves and spikes of fruit; terminal 
leaves 1.35-1.6 m long, 10-14 cm wide, thick, 
coriaceous, with a V-shaped furrow above the 
midrib and near the tip the sides pleated, at 
midsection with 79 parallel secondary veins in 
each half, on old dry leaves the tertiary cross 
veins well marked and making short oblong 
meshes, blade ligulate, above olive-green, below 
pale green and glaucous, near the base begin- 
ning at 10 cm the margins with prickles 1-2.5 
mm long, 2—5 mm apart, subulate, straight or 
arcuate, white; the midrib below beginning at 
19 cm with prickles 1 mm long, 3-10 mm 
apart, subulate, reflexed, appressed, weak; at 
midsection the margins with prickles 1-2 mm 
long, 1-2.5 mm apart, thick subulate, closely 
ascending, white ; the nearby midrib below with 
prickles 0.5-1 mm long, 2-4 mm apart, subu- 
late, appressed ascending, white, weak; on the 
subulate apex the margins and midrib below 
with serrulations 0.2-0. 3 mm long, 0.5-1. 5 mm 
apart, white; the narrow leaves of the lateral 
branchlets 71-83 cm long, 15-16 mm wide, 
coriaceous, above dark olive-green, below pale 
green and glaucous, the center half a deep V- 
shaped furrow above the midrib, the lateral 
