238  ARECACEAE 
2. PSEUDOPHOENIX H. Wendl. Unarmed trees, the trunk rather 
smooth and Micro rad banded. Leaves E blades pinnate: petioles 
eoneave througho adix spreading d 
anthesis, hos ate, with stiff- ho dins 
baise Petals valvate, persistent. Drupe 
dg ent globular or 2- or 3-lobed.—Only 
he following species Tuba 
1. P. vinifera (Mart.) Becc. Tree up to 8 
m. tall, the trunk often slightly fusiform: 
leaf- blades 1-1.5 m. long, the larger oe, 
4—4. . lon le 
dm. long: perianth about wide: 
petals oblong to lags S cada Pd cd in 
age: drupe globular, lobed, 11-14 
mm. long, orange ae [P Sar gent zi 
H. Wendl.]—(SaRGENT'S-PALM. BUCANEER- 
PALM. Hog CABBAGE-PALM. DATELET. DUMMY-DATE.)—Dry o upper 
Fla. Keys.—(W. I.)—Spr. —Plants slow-growing. Fou nd only on Sand’s Key, 
Elliott’s Key, and Long Key, as solitary specimens or few Docs eo 
The colony of Sa hundred individu als on Long Key, where this palm wa 
di Rc n Fla. nearly a half century ago, has ids destroyed by bis 
who have oed the | trees and sold them as royal-pal 
3. ROYSTONEA O. F. Cook. Unarmed trees, the trunk gray, concrete- 
like, not conspicuously banded. Leaves spreading: blades pinnate: petiole 
nearly terete above. Spadix drooping, short, 
wit 
es. 
valvate, deciduous. Drupe sessile, not lobed, 
short.—About six species, natives of trop- 
ical America. 
1. R. regia (H. B. K.) O. F. Cook. Stately 
tree up to 40 m. tall, the pale, smooth trunk 
often fusiform: Qu blades 2.5—3.5 m. long, 
the larger segments 7-9 dm. long: peri- 
anth of the staminate flowers 6-7 mm. long, 
that of the seco barely a as large: 
drupe oval or a MALE 12-1 ee 
violet-blue. oes regia m K. 
d O. F. ole.]— (RovA 
E 
M.)— 
w ha amok oy in the Everglades n Sable oo and Big Cypress, 
d pen. Fla.—(W. I.)—Spr.—Plants fast- idi ing. Now confined to limited 
areas in S Fla., the royal-palm once grew o the St. John's R. near Lake George. 
Apparently a vanishing type in Fla. The fruits which are mns in great 
masses were an aboriginal food. Much planted as an ornamental 
4. PHOENIX L. Shrubs or trees, the stems rough but unarmed. Leaves 
in a dense crown, reeurved-spreading: petioles short: blades pinnate, the divi- 
sions numerous. Spadix erect, or ultimately drooping, arising from the leaf- 
axils, fastigiately branched. Flowers dioecious, the staminate ones larger than 
