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pileus obliquely conic; seed 9 mm long, nar- 
rowly ellipsoid, truncate; leaves 1.2-2 m long, 
at midsection with 27-31 parallel secondary 
veins in each half, and beginning 6-8 cm up 
the margins with prickles 1.5-2 mm long, 4-11 
mm apart, subulate, ascending flat appressed. 
P. ornatus Kurz forma spicata Martelli dif- 
fers from the species only in having two small, 
lateral, secondary syncarps on the peduncle. 
This is considered to be a fluctuation within 
the limits of the species, and not a taxon 
worthy of classification or naming. 
The new epithet is the Latin recurvatus, re- 
curved, and is given with reference to the long, 
recurving peduncle. 
Pandanus ovatus Warb., in Engler’s Pflanzen- 
reich IV, 9:80-81, 1900; P. ovatus (Gaud.) 
Kurz, Asiat. Soc. Bengal., Jour. 38(2): 147, 
1869, and Flora 52:451, 1869, an invalid 
name, not accepted by its author; Pisquetia 
ovata Gaud., Bot. Voy. La Bonite, Atlas t. 4, 
fig. 1, 1843, an invalid name published in an 
undescribed genus (sect. Aero stigma ) . 
Fig. 222 
DESCRIPTION FROM ALL SPECIMENS EXAM- 
INED: Shrub, tufted, tussock-forming, or pros- 
trate; stems to 50 cm long, pale brown, freely 
forking, at apex 1 1 mm in diameter; prop roots 
4-6 mm in diameter, ridged, unarmed; leaves 
73.5-120 cm long, 12-21 mm wide near the 
middle, firm chartaceous, green above, pale 
green below, 1 -ribbed and deeply furrowed 
above along the midrib, 2 -pleated and in sec- 
tion AA-shaped, at midsection on each side with 
20-21 parallel secondary veins, these promi- 
nent throughout, tertiary cross veins barely 
visible towards the base, but from the middle 
outward easily noted, forming elongate oblong 
meshes, the blade ligulate, but near the apex 
gradually narrowed to a 2-7 cm subulate, trig- 
onous tip 0.3 mm wide, the base amplexicaul 
and unarmed, beginning at 3-3.5 cm up the 
margins with prickles 1.3-1. 6 mm long, 3-6 
mm apart, subulate, pale, divergent ascending; 
the midrib below beginning at 6.5-8. 5 cm with 
prickles 1-1.5 mm long, 5-10 mm apart, horn- 
like, reflexed; at midsection the margins with 
prickles 0.5-1 mm long, 2-4 mm apart, subu- 
late, ascending; the midrib below unarmed; in 
the outer third on the upper surface the 2 
lateral pleats bearing prickles 0. 5-0.8 mm long, 
2-6 mm apart, stout arcuate subulate, ascend- 
ing, attached either on secondary veins or in 
the interval between them; on the subulate apex 
the margins and midrib beneath with prickles 
0.3-0. 5 mm long, 1-2.5 mm apart, subulate, 
ascending; pistillate inflorescence terminal, 
erect, bearing one syncarp; peduncle 6-13 cm 
long, 4-5 mm in diameter, 3-sided, bracteate; 
syncarp solitary, 4. 5-5. 5 cm long, 2-4.3 cm in 
diameter, broadly ellipsoid to globose, green, 
with 240-320 drupes, these 21-23 mm long, 
4-5 mm wide and thick, fusiform but the tip 
more slender, 5-7-angled, the body 10-11 mm 
long, oblanceoloid, obtuse; pileus 9-12 mm 
long, the base 5-6 mm high, pyramidal-semi- 
orbicular, with 5-7 prominent angles, smooth; 
style 6-9 mm long, all but the apical ones curved 
proximally, slightly angled at base, then sub- 
terete; stigma 3-5 mm long, broadly linear, 
dark brown, papillose, distal, running almost 
to the tip; endocarp in lower inverted 
bullet-shaped, the walls 0.2 mm thick, bony, 
stramineous; apical rnesocarp 4 mm long, a 
single cavern, depressed barrel-shaped, with a 
few large, longitudinal white membranes; basal 
rnesocarp fibrous and fleshy. 
HOLOTYPE: Pisquetia ovata Gaud., the illus- 
tration in Bot. Voy. La Bonite, Atlas, t. 4, fig. 1, 
1843 which was drawn from the specimen, 
Malacca, Gaudichaud (p). Also there is a clas- 
totype of 12 loose drupes (fi). Specimens ex- 
amined! Also an isotype (g) ! 
SPECIMENS EXAMINED: Malaya, Kelantan, 
Sungei Keteh, 7 Feb. 1924, Md. Nur & Pox- 
worthy 11,988 (SING); Pulo-Pinang [= Pen- 
ang], Voyage de la Bonite, mars 1837, Gaudi- 
chaud (G-DEL); Kedah, Tampoi For. Res., sec- 
ondary forest, very common, 200 ft alt, 2/3/ 
I960, Y. K. Wong 94,253 (kep). 
Fig. 222. Pandanus ovatus Warb., from Sungei Keteh, Nur & Poxworthy 11,988 (SING) . a, fruiting branch, 
lateral view, X 1; h, drupe, lateral view, X 1; c, drupe, longitudinal median section, X 1; ^ drupe, lateral 
view, X 4; e, drupe, longitudinal median section, X 4; f, drupe, apical view, X 4; g, leaf base, lower side, 
X 1; h, leaf middle, lower side, X 1; h leaf apex, upper side, X 1; j, leaf apex, lower side, X i. 
