"Pandanaceae" Quotes from Famous Books
... beach here, and in the adjacent strip of sandy lowland, is a remarkable display of Pandanaceae or Screw-pines. Some are like huge branching candelabra, forty or fifty feet high, and bearing at the end of each branch a tuft of immense sword-shaped leaves, six or eight inches wide, and as many feet long. Others have a ... — The Malay Archipelago - Volume II. (of II.) • Alfred Russel Wallace |