the stem; buds similer in color; flowers #lightly fragrant, 
the filaments white, the enthers creamy yellow; pistil also 
white; flowers coming inte bloom from the apex down; fruits 
1 inch leng, ovoidly elongated or ellip®eid, aleuceus green, 
hard, subtended by the whitish calyx; Sheath Smooth, glaucous 
green, & feet long, Slightly thickened toward the base; 
leaves 6 feet long, Spreading and reeurved; petiole 6 inehes 
long, triangularly fliatiened, 2 inches wide at the base; 
leatilets ascending, charteceousiy leathery, nearly flat, 
a@ull green above, paler or glaucous green benesth; “oring-oring." 
BrookS Point, Mereh, i911. 
LZTO9« Pandanus teetoria spiralis Mert. form B. 
Aseending on reclining trees in woods fronting the sandy 
beach 5 miles seuth of Sreoks Point; stem 5 to 6 inches 
, thick, eccasionelly branched all along, 15 feet high; the 
few branches quite lena, crooked, mostiy descending with 
the leat bearing tips euberect; wood rether soft except the 
vind, waterly white, fibrous; bark grayish white, smooth 
except for the bluntly peinted conical spines, leaves 3 
feet jong, lenger on the young @hoots, deseending except 
the eentral blades, paler or eubglaucous beneath, deeper 
areen eon the upper aide, which i8 deeply grooved especially 
below the middle, @pines whitish, the old leaves persistent 
and forming dry masses beneath the green foliage; young 
fenit terminal and erect, the mature ones sublateral and 
upon a 6 inches long subpendant peduncle; receptacle white, 
Soft, ellipsoid; heads 6 inches thick; the drupes 2 inches 
long, in age the besel one healt yellow and contiguous, 
otherwise orange read and well seasoned from below the 
middle to the apex making 1/2 inch wide spaces between the 
upper half of the drupes in the old heads; the drupes of 
the immature heads conticucus clear to the apex. Brooks 
Point, Mareh, 1911. 
12710. @Phalearie euaingii Vil. treet shrub in compact 
fertile #011 of dense wood® near the beach; stem terete, 
1 1/2 ineh thick, 9 feet high or less, branched from below 
the middle; wood rather soft but tough, white, odorless 
and tasteless, bark brown, Smoothish, whitish except the 
epidermis; velatively thiek; twigs very tough, half drooping, 
Slender; leaves coriaceous, descending mostly, deep green 
and Smocth; inflorescence terminal, erect upon a Short 
green Stalk, the fregrant creamy white erect Tlowers subtended 
by green bracts; green fruite subterete ovately eliipseid 
rether pointed, 1/2 inch lone; stemens pale yellow. Bro oks 
Point, March, 1911. 
12711. areinia dulcis (Roxb.,) Kurz. Erect tree 
in ama Sedimentary Soil of dense forests Skirting the beach; 
Stem 30 feet high, 1 feot thick, terete, branched toward 
the top mainly; weed hard and heavy, the central one half 
brown, otherwise dingy white; bitter, without oder; bark 
@ark brown and finely shredded, the inner portion or 
vather the middle portion reddish, the inner side whitish, 
SP aay tae as ee eb ented Moning o ehettieh 
crown; twigs dark green, crooked and short, terete and 
jointed, rigid; leaves stiff, ascendingly recurved, dark 
green upon the upper folded side, paler gx beneath; flowers 
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