PALM^. 615 



4. T. parviflora, Sw.! "Trunk low (1 0'— 1 2' high);" leaves puberulons-glabrate 

 and green beneath: divisions united to one -quarter to one-sixth: ligule deltoid: spadix 

 large, paniculate, stamens 6(-8), long-exserted ; berry dry, roughish.— Sw. Ft. t. Yd. Jig. 

 sup. : anal. — Thrinax elegans, Hort. Herrenhus ! — De Martins describes the leaf-divisions 

 to be united to one-third, and the ligule acuminate-3-angular : but in Swartz's specimen 

 (taken from a young plant) the exterior leaf-divisions are united to one-sixth, the interior to 

 one-fourth, and the ligule is bluntly deltoid (H'" long). The specimen, cultivated at Kew, 

 belongs probably to T. parviflora, Mart, (non Sw.) : from Dr. Hooker's notes it has gla- 

 brous leaves, the divisions united to one-third or two-thirds, aud an acute ligule.— Leaves 

 10"-2' long ; spadix 2-3', pedicels k'"-l'", stamens 1"'-1£'" long ; perigone minute ; berry 

 3'" diam. — Hab. Bahamas (Catesd.) ; Jamaica !, Sw., March, Wils., gregarious in arid, 

 maritime places j [Haiti]. 



5. T. radiata, Lodd. " Trunk short ;" leaves green, glabrous or puberulous beneath : 

 divisions united to or beyond one-third : ligule broadly rounded, with a short, blunt ap- 

 pendage at the middle ; spadix large, paniculate ; stamens about 8. — Leaves 2'-l', ligule 

 1'", or in the largest leaves 3"' long : leaf-lobes numerous ; spadix 2'~3', pedicels 1'", peri- 

 gone \'", stamens 1"'-1£"' long. — Hab. Antigua!, Wullschl.; Trinidad !, Lour., Cr., rare 

 on the Bocas islands and on the north-east coast ; [Cuba]. 



6. T. argentea, Lodd. "Trunk low (12-15 high, 2"-3" thick) ; leaves shorter than 

 the petiole, silvery-sericeous beneath : divisions united at the base : ligule concave, semi- 

 lunar-eroded ; spadix little paniculate; berry small." — Mart. palm. t. 163: the habit; 

 t. 103. III. : the fruit. — "Leaves 2-1 \', spadix 1' long: partial spathes 3-4 only." — 

 Hab. Bahamas (Catesb.) ; Jamaica {Kew 31us.), gregarious in savannahs; [Cuba, Haiti]. 



7. T. barbadensis, Lodd. " Trunk middle-sized ;" leaves green, glabrous : divisions 

 united at the base : ligule obsolete, truncate ; spadix paniculate ; berry polished. — T. parvi- 

 flora, Mayc. sec. Mart. — Youug leaves 1', spadix 2' long ; berry 4'" diam. — Hab. Barba- 

 does {Lodd.) ; [Guadeloupe !, on limestone hills] . 



8. T. excelsa, Lodd. Leaves pale-green above, hoary-glaucous beneath by minute, 

 appressed down . divisions united to about one-third : " ligule bluntly deltoid :" sheath 

 densely coated with buff-colonrcd cotton.— The Kew specimen is 7' 7" high, 8" thick below 

 {Dr. Hook.) ; leaves 4'-5' long, about 50-fid : divisions about 2' long, 3"- 1" broad : "ligule 

 15'" long;" spadix-brauches spreading-recurved, its axis 1' long, naked below; spathe 

 rusty-tomentose ; berry globose, 3'" diam. — Hab. Jamaica !, Hort. Kew. 



T. pumitio, Lodd., said to grow on the rocky coast of western Jamaica, is doubtful. 

 Sloane's synonym is to be excluded, having been quoted by P. Browne to his Chamarops, 

 which from his description seems to be a Carludovica. 



Subteibe II. LEFIDOCARYLNE/E. — Mowers unisexual. Fruit loricate. Leaf- 

 divisions reduplicate. 



4. MAURITIA, L.fil. 



Flowers dioecious. Perigone $ , exterior short, 3-dentate or truncate, interior 3-partite, 

 6-androns, with erect anthers ; ? " exterior 3-dentate or 3-fid, interior 3-fid. Ovary 3-"elled, 

 surrounded by 3terile stamens: stigma 3 -lobed, sessile. Berry large, 1-seeded. Albumen 

 entire: embryo near its base or lateral." — Arboreous palms; leaves deeply palmalifid ; 

 spadices simple, amentaceous, sessile, exsertedfrom their spathe, distichous along the branches 

 of the long, pendulous rhachis, the inlernodes of which are covered with the sheathing- 

 tubular, subtruncate spathes ; flowers sessile, bracteale ; berry cvnelike from its loricate 

 covering. * 



9. M. setigera, Gr- and Wendl. {n. sp.). " Trunk unarmed ;" leaves green : segments 

 linear-acuminate, unarmed on the margin : midrib distantly prickly above with incurved, 

 weak (4'" long) bristles ; cf iiments oblong-cylindrical, bluut, densely covered with flowers, 

 thrice as long as the thick internodes. — M. flexuosa trinitensis, Mart. M. vinifera, Mayc? 

 This palm has the thick spadix-internodes of M. vinifera, Mart., but by the prickles on the 

 upper side of the leaf-ribs is distinguished from this as well as from M. flexuosa : the fruit 



