Pandanus .] 
pandane^. (I. B. Balfour.) 
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domelike and faintly 5-6-angled, stigmas small reniform crowded, and 
an endocarp flattened at the apex with a short process passing to each 
stigma and a few fibres piercing the spongy mesocarp. Here belong 
P. nudus and sativus of Thouars, P. Candelabrum, Bot. Mag. t. 5014, 
and Vinsonia stephanocarga, utili j , Thouarsii, propin qua, striata , co man - 
guinea , and media of Gaudichaud. P. maritimus, Thouars, and Vinsonia 
palustris , Gaudich, are merely a variety in which the drupe is com- 
pressed, with the apex appreciably cleft. Vacoa sac. 
7. P. pyramidalis, Barkly , MSS. A tree 30 feet high, with a 
straight dark brown stem 8-10 in. in diameter, with horizontal or slightly 
deflexed branches ending in drooping tufts of leaves. Leaves thick, 
coriaceous, 2-5 feet long, 1-2 in. broad, tapering to a long point, dark 
green, slightly glaucescent on both surfaces ; margins red, armed 
throughout or except at the middle with short red-tipped spines ; 
midrib prominent, spiny in the upper half, with the blade redupli- 
cate on each side of it ; lateral veinlets distinct beneath. Female 
heads trigono-globose, pendulous, 6-8 in. in diameter, containing above 
100 drupes; peduncle If ft. long, with many bracts, which much 
overtop the head. Drupes 4-6-celled, slightly compressed, lf-2 in. 
long, lf-lf in. broad, free in the upper quarter; connate portion 
orange when ripe, 5-6-angled ; apex pyramidal, marked with a circular 
groove, above which is an irregularly polygonal flattened space, on 
which are placed the sessile reniform prominent stigmas, which are 
f in. broad ; endocarp smooth at the sides, truncate at the apex, 
with 4-6 hard processes passing upwards, many fibres passing up 
through the spongy mesocarp, which is very thin round the endo- 
carp. Seed f— f in, long. 
Mauritius, at Curepipe, Barkly ! Horne / Balfour ! Endemic. 
8. P. heterocarpus, Balf. jil. An erect tree, about 20 feet high, 
with a light brown stem 5-7 in. in diameter, which branches freely so 
as to form a regular dome-like head, the tufts of leaves either erect 
or drooping. Leaves firm, lf-3 feet long, If— 2f in. broad, pale 
or dark green, often glaucescent at the base, the pink edges armed 
throughout or except at the middle with very sharp red spines ; mid- 
rib slightly tinged with red, spiny above the middle, the blade not 
reduplicate ; lateral veinlets distinct beneath. Female heads globose and 
slightly compressed vertically or oblong, containing usually 60-70 
drupes, 4f— 6 in. long, pendulous ; peduncle 3-15 in. long, with 
several short deciduous bracts. Drupes 2-5-celled, obversely pyrami- 
dal, about an inch long, 1-lf in. broad, f-1 in. deep, free in the 
upper sixth or eighth, not compressed 5-6-angled ; connate portion 
red or yellow when ripe ; apex shortly pyramidal, usually flattened 
and depressed, more rarely rounded and convex in the centre, with a 
rugulose border, the summit a distinctly-bordered areole enclosing the 
reniform sessile prominent stigmas, which are £- f in. broad ; endocarp 
smooth at the sides, flattened at the top, with a prominence running 
