Pandanus ] 
pandane^e. (I. B. Balfour.) 
897 
usually 1- rarely 2-3-celled, irregularly 5-6-angled, in. long, -§- T V 
in. broad and deep, free in the upper quarter ; apex flatly pyramidal, 
marked with 5 or 6 faint ridges ; stigma subreniform, slightly um- 
bilicate, in. broad, prominent, endocarp smooth at the sides, filling 
up nearly the whole drupe ; apex depressed, a circlet of fibres piercing 
the succulent mesocarp. Seed above i in. long. 
Mauritius, not uncommon on the banks of streams at Yacoa and Curepipe, 
Bar My ! Horne ! Balfour ! Endemic. 
3. P. Hornei, Balf.fil. A large tree, often 60 feet high, with a 
smooth stem a foot in diameter, branching freely. Leaves thin, 
coriaceous, 6-10 feet long, 3 in. broad, tapering to a long point, 
dark green on the upper surface, the edges armed throughout with 
short dense red adpressed spines ; midrib spiny from the middle to 
the tip ; lateral veinlets invisible beneath. Female heads containing 
80-100 drupes, globose, a foot in diameter, pendulous ; peduncle 1£-2| 
feet long, with several leafy persistent bracts. Drupe 2-celled, purple, 
slightly glaucous, 3-5 in. long, 2-2| in, broad, 1J-2 in. deep, regu- 
regularly 5-6-angled, free in the upper third ; apex dome-like, with 
faintly-marked ridges ; stigmas reniform, \ in. broad, sessile, slightly 
prominent ; endocarp inversely mitrseform, sending out many fibres 
into the thick spongy mesocarp, covered with downwardly-directed 
deltoid prominences, the apex deeply excavated, with two conical 
processes arising from the base of the hollow. Seed If in. long. 
Seychelles, very common in Mahe, Praslin, and Silhouette, Horne ! Endemic. 
4. P. Barklyij Balf. jil. A small tree, 5-8 feet high, with slender 
decumbent stems and branches, with adventitious roots from all 
parts. Leaves 1-3 feet long, f-2 in. broad ; blade reduplicate on 
on each side of the midrib, tapering to a long point, dark 
green above, glaucescent beneath, the margins and midrib armed 
throughout or at the base and tip only with short spines, green at 
first, but turning red. Female heads containing 70-100 drupes, 
elliptical or ovoid, slightly flattened at the base, 6-8 in. long. 
4-5 in. broad, drooping ; peduncle long, with 3-5 deciduous 
bracts. Drupes purple, compressed, 4-6-celled, 1J-2 in. long, free 
in the upper two-fifths, 1-2 in. broad, -f—fi in. deep, the united part 
tapering rapidly downwards ; apex a tranversely elongated ridge deeply 
cleft between the prominent stigmas ; stigmas deeply reniform, sessile, 
£ in. broad ; endocarp smooth, transversely elongated, very short, 
slightly depressed at the apex, with processes that pass up to each 
of the stigmas, surrounded by many fibres which pierce the spongy 
mesocarp, which is very thin round the endocarp. Seed ^ in. long. 
Vinsonia sylvestris, Gaudick. Atl. Bonite, tab. VI, jig. 16-17. 
Mauritius, common near marshes and on flat open plains in the higher part of 
the island, Horne ! BarMy ! Endemic. 
