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late in longitudinal lines; leaves 1. 8-2.4 m long, 
4.4- 5. 2 cm wide, above olive green and some- 
what glaucous, below paler green, coriaceous, 
with a strong midrib and above it broadly chan- 
neled, at midsection with 45 secondary parallel 
veins in each half, no visible tertiary cross veins, 
sword-shaped, gradually tapering to the 15-30 
cm subulate trigonous apex, this 10 cm down 
0.9-1. 3 mm wide, the base amplexicaul and 
unarmed, but beginning at 10 cm the margins 
with spines 5-6.5 mm long, 11-30 mm apart, 
stout subulate, arcuate ascending, pale; the mid- 
rib below beginning at 22 cm with spines 6 mm 
long, 15-35 mm apart, similar but reflexed; at 
midsection the margins with prickles 3.5-4 mm 
long, 11-18 mm apart, subulate, closely ap- 
pressed ascending, reddish-tipped; the midrib 
below with similar ascending prickles 3 mm 
long, 15-25 mm apart; on the subulate apex 
the margins and midrib below with subulate- 
serrae 0. 5-0.8 mm long, 2-11 mm apart; syn- 
carp single, terminal, 18 cm long, 15 cm in 
diameter, subglobose, bearing numerous pha- 
langes, these 6.7-73 cm long, 2.7-3. 5 cm wide, 
2.4- 3. 1 cm thick, the apex partly green, the 
remainder red-orange, 5-6-angled, the upper 2 A 
free, oblong-elliptic or oblong-obovoid, the apex 
low convex, the sides gently curved, rugulose 
but even so somewhat shining, lateral sutures 
none; central apical sinuses 4.5-53 mm deep 
and V-shaped when with narrowly conic apices 
(but on the occasional phalange, probably a 
subbasal one, with low pyramidal apices, the 
sinuses only 2-33 mm deep); carpels 6-10, the 
apices usually narrowly conic, the outer ones of 
the same thickness but about l A wider, asym- 
metric and more or less flattened distally, erect 
or slightly outwardly curved; the lower of 
phalange fleshy distended with shoulders dis- 
tended to 3-4 mm all around, thus 25-35 mm 
in diameter; stigmas 3-33 mm long, elliptic, 
creased, brown, papillose; proximal sinus run- 
ning Vz-Vz way to valley bottom; endocarp 
median, 23-3 cm long, dull mahogany-brown, 
bony, massive, the lateral walls 3-4 mm thick, 
the inner surfaces shining; seeds 13-18 mm 
long, 43 mm in diameter, fusiform; upper meso- 
carp forming in each carpel apex a cavern, the 
lateral ones 23 cm long, filled with the white 
membranes of an aerenchyma; basal mesocarp 
fibrous and fleshy. 
HOLOTYPUS: Singapore, Kranji village, cut- 
over thicket near house, 2 m. alt., July 10, I960, 
H. St. John 26,375 (bish). 
specimens EXAMINED: Malaya, Pahang, Te- 
lok Sisik, Kuantan, near the sea, 4 Dec. 1924, 
I. H. Bur kill & Md . Haniff 17,346 (sing). 
DISCUSSION: P. carnosus is a member of the 
section Pandanus . It is one of the curious Asiatic 
species with fleshy, enlarged bases of the pha- 
langes. None of the described species are close 
relatives, but it is related to an undescribed one 
from Okinawa, represented by the collection 
St. John 25,950. 
The new epithet is the Latin adjective car- 
nosus, fleshy, in allusion to the fleshy base of the 
phalange. 
Pandanus glohosus sp. nov. (sect. Pandanus) 
Fig. 159 
DIAGNOSIS HOLOTYPI: Arbor ? ramis 3 cm 
diametro brunneis rugosis, foliis 81-90 cm 
longis 33 cm latis supra viridibus infra pallidi- 
oribus et apparente glands late sulcatis coriaceis 
in sectione mediali cum 38 nervis parallelis 
secundariis in quoque medio nervis tertialis nul- 
lis laminis gladiformatis sensim in apice 20 cm 
longo subulato trigono diminuentibus eo 10 cm 
ex apice 2 mm lato basi amplexicauli inermi sed 
ex 5 cm marginibus cum aculeis 33-5 mm 
longis 5-12 mm separatis arcuatis subulatis ad- 
scendentibus apicibus brunneis, midnervo infra 
ex 5 cm cum aculeis 2-3 mm longis 6-18 mm 
separatis simulantibus sed reflexis, in sectione 
mediali marginibus cum aculeis 2.8-3 mm longis 
5-12 mm separatis subulatis valde adpressis 
adscendentibus, midnervo infra cum aculeis 
0.8-1 mm longis 5-12 mm separatis subulatis 
adscendentibus, in apice subulato marginibus et 
midnervo infra cum aculeis 03-0.8 mm longis 
4-8 mm separatis subulatis adpresse adscenden- 
tibus, inflorescentia foeminea terminal! cum 
syncarpio solitario, pedunculo 9 cm longo 8 mm 
diametro trigono folioso-bracteato, syncarpio 8.8 
cm diametro globoso cum 26 phalangibus eis 
3. 6-3 .9 cm longis 23-2.8 cm latis 2.2-23 cm 
crassis breviter crasse pyriformatis 6-angulosis 
lateribus planis vel subcurvatis laevibus lucidis 
in sicco pallide brunneis parte 2 A supera libera 
apice depresse convexo, suturis lateralibus nul- 
lis, sinibus apicalibus centralibus 2-33 mm pro- 
