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below beginning at 4-9 cm with prickles 0.8-1 
mm long, 0.5-6 mm apart, slender subulate, 
brownish, ascending, oblique, closely appressed; 
at midsection the margins with prickles 0.5-0.7 
mm long, 1-3 mm apart, slender subulate, as- 
cending flat appressed and occupying recesses 
in the margin; the midrib below glabrous or 
with a few prickles like those lower down; at 
the bend of the apical contraction the margins 
with prickles 0.6-0.8 mm long, 0.6-1. 5 mm 
apart, slender subulate, somewhat ascending or 
divergent; the midrib with prickles 0.6-1 mm 
long, 1-2 mm apart, arcuate subulate, ascend- 
ing; on the caudate tip the margins and mid- 
rib below with prickles 0. 3-0.7 mm long, 
0.3-1. 5 mm apart, stout arcuate subulate, as- 
cending; pistillate peduncle 8 cm long, 7 mm 
in diameter, erect, bearing a single syncarp 5.7 
cm long, 4.5 cm in diameter, broadly ellipsoid, 
bearing about 320 drupes, these 12-13 mm 
long (or 16-18 mm following the curve of the 
stigma), 5-6 mm wide, 3. 5-4.5 mm thick, the 
body narrowly oblong ellipsoid, 5-6-angled, the 
sides smooth; pileus smooth, the base 3-3.5 mm 
long, conical or broadly so, bearing the terminal 
style 5-6.5 mm long, stout subulate, strongly 
curved proximally, having a distal cleft nearly its 
whole length in which is the stigma 3-4 mm 
long, linear, brown, papillose, running to the tip; 
endocarp pale brownish, centering in the lower 
(4, its walls 0.1 mm thick; seeds 7-8 mm long, 
oblance-oblong; apical mesocarp a cavern 2-2.5 
mm long, invaded by trichomes and hairs; basal 
mesocarp with fibers up the sides and the center 
fleshy. 
HOLOTYPE: Malaya, "Perak, Thaiping Hills, 
in dense forest about 2500 feet altitude," above 
tea border, Dec. 1898, H. N. Ridley (sing). 
Holotype examined! 
Pandanus parvus Ridl., Roy. Asiat. Soc., Straits 
Branch, Jour. 33: 71, Jan. 1900; FI. 
Malay Penin. 5: 78, 1925; P. flagellifer 
Warb., in Engler’s Pflanzenreich IV, 9: 
80, Dec. 21, 1900; Martelli, Webbia 
4(1): 14, 1913; 4(2): t. 33, f- 7, 1914; 
(sect. Aero stigma) 
Figs. 175, 176 
DIAGNOSIS OF HOLOTYPE: "Stem 2.92 cm. 
tall, 12 mm. in diameter, slender, branched 
above,” rooting throughout; leaves 27-37 cm 
long, near the tip 32-36 mm broad, near the 
base 16-20 mm broad, appearing ligulate, but 
actually tapering downwards, thin subcoriaceous, 
dark green above, pale and glaucous beneath, 
2 -pleated and in section low AA-shaped but only 
1 -ribbed, the midrib below narrow and raised, 
the secondary parallel veins prominent through- 
out, and at midsection 18-21 on a side, the terti- 
ary cross veins faintly visible below near the tip, 
making small squarish meshes, near the apex ab- 
ruptly rounded contracted to a 3-6 cm caudate 
deltoid subulate tip 0.8 mm wide, the base am- 
plexicaul, unarmed for 4-5 cm, then the margins 
with prickles 0.7-1. 3 mm long, 2-7 mm apart, 
slender subulate, straight or slightly curved, 
brownish, ascending; the midrib below unarmed 
to near the apex; at midsection the margins with 
similar prickles 0.5-1 mm long, 4-12 mm apart; 
on the rounded apical contraction the margins 
with prickles 0.5-0.8 mm long, 0.5-2 mm apart, 
stouter subulate, slightly ascending; the midrib 
below with prickles 0.8- 1.4 mm long, 1-7 mm 
apart, arcuate subulate, slightly ascending; on 
the caudate tip the margins and midrib below 
with stout prickles 0. 3-0.8 mm long, 0.5-1. 5 
mm apart, subulate, arcuate, ascending; in the 
series of bracteal leaves the first several 2-4 
cm long, lance-navicular, entire; pistillate in- 
florescence 1 -headed; peduncle 5 cm long, 4-5 
mm in diameter, 3 -angled, few bracted; syncarp 
erect, 3.5 cm long, 3.3 cm in diameter, ovoid- 
globose, bearing about 150 drupes, these 11-12 
mm long or following the curve 14-15 mm 
long, 3. 5-5. 5 mm wide, 2. 5-3. 5 mm thick, fusi- 
form, the body 7-8 mm long, oblanceoloid, 
the surface smooth, later fibrous; pileus smooth, 
apparently glaucous, 9-10 mm long, the base 
oblong-pyramidal and with the apex oblique 
and proximally curved, tapering into a hornlike 
style which is 5-6 mm long, all (except the 
apical ones) sharply proximally curved, stigma 
4-5 mm long, lance-linear, dark brown, papil- 
lose, extending to the tip; endocarp in lower 
V4, stramineous, bony, the walls 0.3 mm thick, 
and the lateral walls extending upwards to 
bound the apical cavity; seed 5 mm long, ob- 
lanceoloid, truncate at tip; apical mesocarp a 
cavern filled with white medullary ascending 
hairs; basal mesocarp sparse, fibrous and fleshy. 
