PANDANEiE. (I. B. Balfour.) 
[ Pandanus . 
39b 
5. P. conoideus, Thouars , Kunth , Enum. iii. 97. A small tree, 
about 14 feet high, the slate-grey stem frequently decumbent, 
covered with many short sharp warts, branching freely. Leaves 
thick, coriaceous, 4-5 feet long, 2-4 in. broad, dark green, the 
margins irregularly spiny, the spines near the base being close and 
spreading, those higher up incurved or adpressed, all green, the midrib 
spiny in the upper half, the blade reduplicate on each side of it ; 
lateral veinlets obscure beneath. Female heads globose, 5-6 in. diam- 
eter, containing above 100 drupes ; peduncle above a foot long, 
slightly drooping, with many long linear-lanceolate leafy deciduous 
bracts, which much exceed the head. Drupes greatly compressed, 
3-7 -celled, If in. long, free in the upper fifth, f~l in. broad, 
in. deep, the united portion lemon-yellowwhen ripe, cuneato-hexagonal ; 
apex green, very narrow, shallowly cleft between the stigmas ; stigmas 
deeply reniform, x 1 ^— §- i n - broad, immersed, slightly umbilicate ; endo- 
carp smooth at the sides, tranversely elongated, very short, not 
depressed at the apex, with a process passing up to each stigma 
through the spongy mesocarp, which is thin round the endocarp. Seed 
f in. long. 
Mauritius, common in the higher parts of the island in damp soil in open places 
growing in clusters. BarJcly ! Bouton ! Horne ! Balfour ! Endemic. Vacoa marron. 
6. P. Vandermeeschii, Balf. fil. A tree about 20 feet high, 
with a light-coloured stem 5-6 in. in diameter, branching freely, the 
branches often twisted. Leaves stiff*, suberect, 2f-3 feet long, lf-2 
in. broad, very glaucous on both surfaces, the thickened red margins 
armed throughout with strong red pungent spines, and the prominent 
red midrib also spiny from the base to the tip ; lateral veinlets dis- 
tinctly visible on the under surface. Heads trigono-globose, 4-5 in. 
in diameter, containing over 100 drupes ; peduncle straight, drooping, 
8-9 in. long, often red, with several short deciduous leafy bracts. Drupes 
fusiform, 2-6-celled, rarely 1-celled, free in the upper two-thirds, 1 in. 
long, f-! in. broad and deep ; free apex faintly angled, subterete, red 
or streaked with transverse bands of red and green ; base strongly, but 
irregularly 5-6-angled ; stigmas flat, reniform, T 1 6 ~ 1 1 2 in. broad, crowded 
substipitate, of ten oblique ; epicarp very hard ; endocarp placed at 
the base of the drupe, sending up processes to its tip, and a few 
fibres through the spongy mesocarp, which fills up the upper part of 
the drupe, but is thin round the endocarp. Foullioya maritima, 
Gaudich. Atl. Bonite , tab. 21-24. 
Mauritius, on Round Island, Amber Island, Flat Island, and Coin de Mire, not 
on the main land, BarJcly ! Horne ! Balfour ! Endemic. 
* P. utilis, Borv, Voy. ii. 3, a native of Madagascar, is commonly 
planted in Mauritius for the sake of its leaves. It is a tree 60 feet 
high, with firm glaucous erect leaves l-2f feet long with sharp red spines, 
trigono-globose long-peduncled pendulous heads about half a foot in 
diameter, containing above 100 drupes 3-8-celled 1-J—1J in. long free in 
the upper half 5-6-angled in the lower half and yellow when ripe, the apex 
