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(Kunth) Warb. ex Masamune (1956); and 
as P. odoratissimus L. f. var. laevis (Warb.) 
Martelli (1934). The first of these, P. laevis 
Lour, was published as a new species, not at- 
tributed to Rumphius. Loureiro included a 
reference to P. laevis Rumph. and his descrip- 
tion was in part from Cochinchinese plants of 
Pandanus , and with vernacular names of palms 
in Corypha. This was first typified by Kunth 
(1841) on the Rumphian plants of Amboina. 
Hence, later interpretations, as that by Mer- 
rill, that P. laevis Lour, must be applied to the 
obviously different Pandanus seen in Vietnam 
by Loureiro, were superfluous and illegal. 
Kunth had already made a possible and legal 
typification of the species. Nor can combina- 
tions based upon P. laevis sensu Kunth be 
used, since he had no independent species, and 
if he had, it would have been a later homonym 
of the one by Loureiro. It is possible to use the 
name P. tectorius Soland. var. laevis Warb. 
(1900), as var. laevis. Warburg could not le- 
gally transfer and adopt P. laevis sensu Kunth, 
but in fact Warburg gave a Latin diagnosis 
and cited specimens, so var. laevis has a legiti- 
mate beginning with Warburg in 1900. 
Warburg also cited as synonyms P. moscha- 
tus s. laevis Rumph. and P. moschatus Miq. For 
localities he listed Java, Bali, and Amboina; 
and quoted Kurz as finding it at Pegu. In the 
Berlin herbarium there are no such specimens, 
and the only ones there, and annotated by War- 
burg, are two from Calcutta, one collected by 
Guadichaud in Hortus Calcutt. and sent to 
Kunth in 1841, and the other Herb. Wallich 
842B. These contain only staminate inflores- 
cences. Since in preparing his monograph War- 
burg studied only the specimens in the Berlin 
museum, it is evident that he based his concept 
of this plant upon published descriptions, not 
upon actual specimens. 
P. inermis Roxb. is a valid name, based 
upon plants from Amboina cultivated in the 
Calcutta Botanic Garden. In 1961 this plant 
was no longer present in the Calcutta Garden, 
but there were two sheets with male inflores- 
cences so labeled in the Calcutta herbarium and 
they match the material from Singapore here 
described as a new cultivar. 
Another complication is that P. tectorius 
Soland. was merely a manuscript name with 
an unpublished figure until it was adopted by 
Warburg in 1900. He gave other references to 
subsequent authors, but none of these used 
the name P. tectorius. So Warburg himself was 
the first to print a diagnosis, cite specimens 
and references. Hence, P. tectorius Warb. (1900) 
is an acceptable name for a Tahitian species, 
but it is no longer a usable mother species to 
which all other littoral kinds can be appended 
as varieties. There are many other older species 
of the section Pandanus which have priority 
over the binomial by Warburg. Since the writer 
does not accept this sort of classification, the 
wholesale grouping of all littoral kinds of Pan- 
danus under one species, he is not concerned 
with which would be the earliest possible col- 
lective species for all littoral Pandanus. The 
publication of P. tectorius is often attributed 
to S. Parkinson’s Journal (1773), but in this 
posthumous, non-technical book, the name was 
printed as a monomial, and hence is invalid. 
Pandanus Scortechinii Martelli, Soc. Bot. Ital., 
Bui. n. s. 11(2): 302, 1904, (as Scortechini ) , 
emended to Scortechinii by Martelli, Webbia 
4(1) :30, 78, 96, 1913; and 4(2):t.34, fig. 
12-15, 1914 (sect. Rykia). 
Fig. 224 
DIAGNOSIS OF LECTOTYPE: Pistillate plants 
with the stem 60-120 cm tall, 13 mm in diame- 
ter, yellowish, smooth, shining; leaves 25-33 
cm long, 1.9-3. 1 cm wide near the middle, 1.4 
cm wide near the base, thick chartaceous, only 
the midrib thickened, but the blade 2 -pleated, 
cuneate to near the expanded, unarmed base, 
the midsection almost ligulate, then near the 
tip suddenly contracted to a caudate, subulate, 
trigonous apex 3 cm long, this 2 cm down 1.3 
mm wide, the blade 1 -ribbed, but pleated and 
in section M-shaped, above dark green, below 
paler, the secondary parallel veins conspicuous 
and at midsection 1 5—16 in each half, below in 
outer half the tertiary cross veins visible, almost 
transverse, making squarish meshes, beginning 
at 3-4 cm from the base the margins with 
prickles 2-2.3 mm long, 3-6 mm apart, subu- 
late, ascending, brown tipped; the midrib below 
beginning at 5-6 cm up with 1-2 reflexed 
serrulations 0.5— 1mm long, and if two 19 mm 
