Note 160 — Chapter I
William Johnston translation
The Kaida of Rhude Hort. Malab. as well as the Keura athrodactylus, and the Pandanus odoratissima is not a wild ananas, but a plant, the male flowers of which have a farina of an exceedingly agreeable smell. In Arabia and India people bestrew their heads with it, as we do ours with perfumed powder. F.