pandanus

• It can be as obvious and common as indigenous plants such as pandanus, lemongrass and daun kaduk (piper sarmentosum) growing in your garden.
• The boat went ahead; and after passing through a section of pandanus, they came to an open lake, which they judged to be five miles long The water was shallow, though deep enough for the steamer. —  Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics
• The shore was fringed by a variety of trees, among which we recognised the graceful plume-like heads of a grove of cocoa-nut trees, several broad-leaved bananas, and a number of the pandanus or screw-pine (readily known by the beauty of its form and its white glossy leaves), as also the paper mulberry tree, of much lower growth, with large leaves. —  Twice Lost
• The island is covered with groves of cocoa-nut, pandanus, and other trees; and, from the number of huts we see, and the people moving about, it seems to be thickly populated. —  The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific
• As we rushed on towards the breakers, it increased in width till I felt assured that it was indeed an opening, and now beyond it appeared the tops of palm, pandanus, and other trees of those regions, giving us the assurance that we should find land and a haven where we might rest secure from the storm. —  The Cruise of the Mary Rose Here and There in the Pacific

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