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Pandanaceae (from the genus Pandanus, derived from a Malay name). Screw-pine Family. Fig. 6. Shrubby or arborescent plants: stems simple or branched, with prop-roots: leaves spirally arranged, densely placed, sword-shaped, often canaliculate, clasping, stiff; edges and midrib often spiny-serrate: flowers on simple or branched spadices, dioecious, naked: spathes caducous; stamens densely packed, separated or united in fascicles, scattered over the spadix, and not in definite flowers; pistillate spadix simple; ovaries numerous, coherent in bundles, or isolated, not in real flowers; stigma sessile; ovules solitary or several: fruit drupaceous, cohering in multiple fruits; seed albuminous.

There are 3 genera and about 350 species, natives of the tropics of the Old World. The family is unique. The floral structure, while much like that of Typha, suggests also the Palmaceae. As in Typha, actual flowers cannot here be distinguished.

The fleshy pericarps of some are eaten. The strong odor of the staminate flowers is either agreeable or disagreeable, depending on the species; in the former case the flowers are used for perfumery. The leaves of Pandanus utilis are made into bags for shipping coffee, and the plant is now cultivated for that purpose in the West Indies.

Ten to 15 species of Pandanus (Screw Pine, Candelabrum Tree, Chandelier Tree) are in greenhouse cultivation in America.{{SCH}}
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