CLVII. PANDANACE 3 . 
Pandanns.'] 
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conic angled, dark brown; style short conic. Hab. Edges of woods 
in wet ground, common. Singapore, Taiiglin; Bukit Mandai 
Road. Johor and Malacca. (Griffith, Ridley). Native name: 
Mengkuang. Use. The leaves are used for making Kajangs, cover¬ 
ings for ox carts, roofing, screens, hats, etc. 
(28) P. penangensis Ridl. Joitrn. Roy. Soc. S. Br. 41, 
p. 50; Mat. ii. 2:^0, 
Tree about 20 ft. tall, 4 in. through. Leaves linear acuminate, 
6 ft. long or more, 4 in. across, marbled light and dark green when 
young. Male flowers unknown. Female heads 4 to 5, oblong, 
6 in. long, 3 in. through. Drupes i in. long, green, free, part conic, 
•3 in. long. Style stout, curved forwards, 5 in, long, dark brown. 
Hah. Local on dry hills. Penang Hill at 2500 ft. altitude (Ridley). 
(29) P. aurantiacus Ridl. Roy. ds. Soc. S. Br. 41, p. 49. 
Large branching shrub 12 ft. tall. Leaves linear long-acuminate, 
glaucous, 3 ft. long, i'5 in. wide. Male flowers unknown. Female 
of five globose-oblong .spikes, 2-5 in. long, i in. through, bright 
orange-red. Drupes oblong pyramidal, 5-angled, tip conic, passing 
into a long stout not very hard beak. Hab. Tidal thickets and 
rivers, very showy in fruit. Singapore, Bukit Mandai Road. 
Johor, Tanjong Bunga; Pulaii Kukub (Ridley). Pahang, Kwala 
Lipis (Machado). Kelantan, Sungei Kertah (Nur). Disirib. Siam, 
Borneo. Native names : Pandan Ikan; Mengkuang Bunga. 
(30) P. perakensis Ridl. Mat. ii. 231. 
Leaves 5 ft. long, i’5 in. wide, linear acuminate with strong 
pale thorns at base on edge and numerous small ones closer above. 
Males unknown. Female syncarps 3 or 4, globose, 2 in. long, on 
a stout peduncle 6 in. long. Drupes linear-oblong, -5 in. long, ending 
in a pyramidal style, point stout, spine-like; stigma broad, as long 
as style, Forests. Perak, Maxwell's Hill; Lahat (Ridley). 
Doubtful Species. 
P. HERBACEVS Martelli, l.c. 303. Trong, Perak,” doubtless Trang. 
This is not described, and the diagnosis is too incomplete. I have not 
seen the specimen on which the species is based. 
P. ODORUS Ridl. Stems stout, eventually 10 to 12 ft. tall, more 
commonly low branching. Leaves 30 in. long, 2 in. wide, 
linear acute, glaucous beneath, thornless except for a few 
minute thorns at tip. Native names: Pandan Jelinkeh; 
Pandan Wangi. Use. Cultivated round villages for the leaves, 
which are scented, and cut up fine, boded with rice to flavour 
it; also used in “ Gunga Rumpeh,” a kind of potpourri, with 
sandal-wood and rose-water, distributed at weddings. 
This plant seems never to have been described, nor have I ever seen or 
heard of its flowering. 
Another species apparently iindescribed is an epiphytic plant with very 
narrow linear stiff leaves forming a large tuft. Common in Johor and Perak; 
but no trace of inflorescence has ever been seen. 
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