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the pistillate. Calyx cup- like, shallowly 3-lobed, the lobes broad. Petals 3, 
much lo than the calyx. Stamens mostly 6: anthers narrow. Carpels 3, 
distinct. Berry terete, with a fleshy peri- 
carp, phi orange, brown, or black.—About 
a dozen species, mostly natives of tropical 
ia 
1. P. dactylifera L. Stem stout, irregu- 
ea roughened by the persistent leat. agen 
ous, spreading, the r part 
of ie d spiny; divisions stiff, the la 
ones about the middle of the rachis, pale 
green: spadix Pis en drooping, much 
shorter than the leav petals of 
a. flowers ovate, een times longer 
alyx: 
40 mm. 
long, Oe S oe mocks, coastal dunes, and about 
dwellings, S Fla.—Nat N Afr. and Arabia. — Spr. —A food- -plant of the first 
importance, Eun in der countries. Grown as an ornamental. 
5. SABAL Adans. Unarmed shrubs, with horizontal or contorted root- 
stocks, or trees. Leaves upright or spreading: blades flabellate, glabrous. 
eadin men : 
pressed.—Spr.-sum.—PALMETTOS. ABBAGE-TREES.—A bout 18 species, natives 
of southeastern United States, the West Indies, and continental tropical 
America 
A flat, the segments not filiferous, the midrib short or only partiy E 
nto the blade, the ligule short and rounded or ovate: spadix erect or ascendin 
the inflorescence slender e more or less interrupted : anthers 
ovoid. (Subgenus sr L.) I. MINORES. 
Leaf-blades recurved and with the sides more or less folded along 
e stout midrib which extends nearly or quite through the 
blade except in S. Jamesiana, the se ments filiferous, the 
ligule lanceolate: spadix spreading or drooping, the inflores- 
cence thick, dense, and continuous: anthers ellipsoid. (Sub- 
genus INODES.) II. PALMETTONES. 
I. MINORES 
Stem (rootstock) subterranean: leaves in a crown arising from 
id. 
the ground: ee als ellipsoi 1. S. minor. 
Stem ereet: I in a crown terminating a stout trunk: petals 
suborbicula 2. S. Deeringiana. 
II. PALMETTONES 
Stem Meagan subterranean, short, S-shaped or more or less 
Spir I upe subglobose or depressed, mostly over 1.5 cm. in 
oo 
diam . S. Etonia. 
Stem Ri up to 20 tall E more: drupe subglobose, mostly 
less than 1 cm. in dia 
Leaf- blades ure ree stro ngly so, with the sides more 
or less strongly folded along the midrib; the segments stiff, 
longer nen the undivided part. of the blade, copiously 
ney 
filife . S. Palmetto. 
Leaf-blades straight, fiat, the segments limber, Se than . 
ndivided part of the blade, sparingly filifero 5. S. Jamesiana. 
