The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Pandanus (Including Barrotia)

Including Barrotia. To the species described on pp. 16-18, Vol. III., the following should now be added:

P. Augustianus (Auguste's). This is closely related to P. Kerchovei. The leaves are larger and more densely serrated, the nerves being green and denticulated, and the stem is broader. Papua, 1886. (I. H. 1886, 612.) P. Grusonianus (Gruson's). l. numerous, very narrowly linear-lanceolate, densely serrated from base to apex, the teeth brilliant red, acute, the midrib keeled below and slenderly spicate. Stem short. Amirantes Islands, 1887. (I. H. ser. v. 12.) SYN. Barrotia Grusoniana.

P. Kerchovei (Comte de Kerchove's). l. very narrow, attenuated and acute at apex, densely toothed, the middle nerve keeled below, the lateral ones numerous, one or two of the primary ones keeled above, confluent towards the apex; teeth greyish-white. Stem short, attenuated. Amirantes Islands, 1886. (I. H. 1886, 600.)

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