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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES brown, obtusely quadrangular, densely white hairy. Leaves andsemi-evergreenforests. simple,opposite,membranous,rhombate,2-7x 1-3cm,acute Specimens Examined: Little Andaman Island: Way atapexandbase,marginentire,ciliate,patentlyhairyonboth towards Unnis nallah dam, 27.iv.2006, L. Rasingam 20984; surfaces, reddish-brown above, greenish-brown beneath; North Nicobars: Katchal Island, West bay, l.v.1977, petioles5-7 mm long,channeledabove, hairy. Inflorescence RChakraborty5578;SouthNicobars: GreatNicobarIslands, terminal, racemose, up to 26 cm long, densely pubescent; 35kmoneast-westroad,20.vii.1976,N.P.Balakrishnan3898; peduncles up to 8.5 cm long. Flowers in glomerules, sterile 36.8 km on east-west road, 17.vi.1977, N.P. Balakrishnan flowers often found in the lower parts and modified into 5824. mm hooked fascicles. Tepals lanceolate, c. 3 long, densely ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS villousandpubescentwithin. Stamens5,filamentsatthebase with a short connate cup; free parts alternating with dentate, pseudo-staminodes;anthers2-celled.Ovaryobovoid,c. 1 mm WearegratefultoDr. M. Sanjappa,Director,Botanical long;styleveryshort.Seedsupto 1.2mmlong,shiningbrown. Survey ofIndia, Kolkata, forfacilities. We are alsothankful FI. & Fr.: March-August. to Dr. D. Kannan, Thiyagaraja College, Madurai, for Distribution: india: Throughout; Africa to China, encouragement,andofficialsofAndamanandNicobarIslands throughout south-eastAsia andAustralia. Forest Plantation and Development Corporation Limited Habitat: Not common along the edges of evergreen (ANIFPDCL) forfield support. REFERENCES Sinha, B.K. (1999): FloraofGreatNicobarIsland. Botanical SurveyofIndia, Kolkata, 525 pp. VasudevaRao. M.K. (1986):ApreliminaryreportontheAngiospermsofAndamanand NicobarIslands. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 8(1): 107-184. 21 PANDANUS UNIPAPILLATUS DENNST.: ANEW RECORD FOR MAHARASHTRAAND GOA, INDIA . RahulL. Zanan1-2 KantilalV. Wakte1-3 andAltafhusain B. Nadaf1-4 , ‘DepartmentofBotany,UniversityofPune,Pune411 007,Maharashtra.India. Email: [email protected] ’Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] In November 2007, we collected a species from A large shrub or small tree up to 8 m height; more or Maharashtra at Sawantwadi (15° 51’ 33 N; 73°50' 38 E) of less erect stem, branching neartop with a few prop roots at Sindhudurg district and in December 2007 from Goa at base. Leaves up to 1.5-2 m x 3-5 cm, margin with sharp Paingen (14°58' 03 N; 74°05' 19 E) of Canacona district. curved prickles and midrib prickly along its whole length. The collected specimen when compared with the 7-8 spines on midrib (per 10 cm), spines 3 mm long, authenticallyidentifiedspecimensdepositedattheBotanical 15-16on margin (per 10cm)in threerows, leafcolourdeep Survey of India, Western Circle, Pune, was identified as to light green. P. unipapillatus. Male inflorescenceephemeral,fragrant, terminal with Pandanus unipapillatus Dennst. (Pandanaceae) yellowish 10-12bracts;spikesupto 12-20cmlonganddense, mm mm has been reported for the first time for the states of stemonophore 3-6 long; stamen 5-8 long with free Maharashtra and Goa (Sharma et al. 1996; Rao 1986; up to 1 mm long filament; anther 3-5 mm long. Female Kulkami 1988). In this report, a detailed description ofthe inflorescenceterminal,bracteate,6-8bractsofvariablelength; species is given. solitary,oblong-rounded25-30cmx 18-20cm,carpelsimple, P. unipapillatus Dennst. Schlussel Hortus Malab. 27. hexagonal,4.5cmlong, 1 cmindiameter,singleforked, style (1818). 1 cmlong. Growsattheborderofpaddyfieldsandalongthe MaterialExamined: india: Maharashtra(Sindhudurg bankofstreams. district, Sawantwadi, 7 km from Sawantwadi towards Flowering & Fruiting: FI.: August to October, Londha)femaleplant,RahulZanan7;GoaCanaconadistrict, Fr.: Septemberto December. Paingen, male plant, Rahul Zanan 5, female, Rahul Distribution: india: Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Zanan 6. MaharashtraandGoa. 130 J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc., 106 (1), Jan-Apr 2009