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apart; at midsection the margins with weak 
prickles 0.2-0.3 mm long, flat appressed, as- 
cending, close or remote or none; the midrib 
below unarmed; on the caudate apex the mar- 
gins with teeth 0. 3-0.7 mm long, 1-1.5 mm 
apart, subulate tipped serrulations; the midrib 
below with similar ones but 1-3 mm apart; 
syncarp 4-5 cm long, 3-3.5 cm in diameter, 
erect, single, oval; drupes numerous, 12-22 
mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide and thick, oblong- 
fusiform, 4-6-angled, the body 7-18 mm long; 
pileus 2-3 mm high, ovoid; style 4-5 mm long, 
subulate from a broad, compressed base, pale, 
cartilaginous; stigma 2.5-3 mm long, proximal, 
linear, not reaching the apex, brown, papillose; 
endocarp in lower P 3 , cartilaginous, the walls 
stramineous, 0.1 mm thick, 6 mm long, ellips- 
oid but smaller towards the base; seed 3 mm 
long, ellipsoid; apical mesocarp a slender ellips- 
oid cavern 5-6 mm long; basal mesocarp with 
fibers up the sides, the center fleshy but when 
dried hollow. 
LECTOTYPE: Malaya, Perak, Larut, to 300 ft 
alt, 1882, Dr. King’s Collector 3,557 (cal)! 
Isotype (SING)! and ( Fl) ! 
specimens EXAMINED: Malaya, Bindings 
[ = Perak] , new road from Bruas to Sungei Ro- 
tan, Feb. 1900, C. Curtis (sing); Perak, Larut, 
very wet places, rich soil, dense jungle, 300 ft 
alt, June 1882, H. Kunstler 3,085 (cal); with- 
out locality, Scortechini (CAL); plains, Kota, 
Oct. 1888, L. Wray Jr. 3,260 (cal); Kota, 
Thaiping, plains, Oct. L. Wray Jr. 5,797 (sing) . 
DISCUSSION: P. Scortechinii is a member of 
the section Rykia. It was briefly described by 
Martelli only in a key. This was valid publica- 
tion but regrettably brief. He based his new 
species upon collections from Malaya and upon 
three collections by Wray from Assam in 
northern India. Later Martelli restricted the 
area of his own species, as in his enumeration 
(Webbia 4(1) :30, 1913) he listed it as an 
accepted species and gave its occurrence only 
as "Penis. Males.” Thus, Martelli by implication 
excluded the specimens from Assam, which the 
writer is now separating as a new species. Of 
the several collections from Malaya, the one 
from Larut, Dr. King’s Collector 3,557 , is here 
designated as lectotype. 
Fig. 224. Pandanus Scortechinii Martelli, from isotype (SING), a, leafy branch, lateral view, X Vl\ h, 
syncarp, lateral view, X L c > drupe, lateral view, X L d, drupe body, longitudinal median section, X L e, 
drupe, lateral view, X 4; f, drupe body, longitudinal median section, X 4; g, drupe, apical view, X 4; h, 
pileus, style, and stigma, lateral view, X 4; i, leaf base, lower side, X 1 \ j, leaf middle, lower side, X L k, 
leaf apex, lower side, X 1- 
