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Sabal Adansoni. Dwarf Sabal, or 

 Swamp Palmetto. 



C/j/} tfffd Order. 



Hexandria Trigynia. Perfoon. Palm^. L/7/ff. 



Generic Characler. 



Flares hermapbrodhi ; fpatha nniverfalis o; fpadix ramofaj 

 fpatbce partiales membranaceae. Calyx 3-partitus perfiliens 

 fegmentis minimis. Cor. 3- partita (decidua Jacq.) Stem, li- 

 bera ; filamcniis bafi incraHatis. Germ. 3, coadunata ; Jligm, 

 feffilia fubpubefcentia. Baccte 3, 2 plerumque abortive, 

 fubfphericae, pififormes, monofpermze ; euro pauca, fubamar- 

 efcen.s, feminibus non adhaereus. Sem. ofTeum, rufefcens, 

 punclis confperfum, bafi area umbilicali depreffa notatum; 

 papilla exigua laterali embryonem obtegente ; abmnen cartila- 

 gineum, album, embryo parvus, conicus, horizontalis. Guer- 

 Jent obf. in Bullet, tie la foe. pbilomat. No. 87. 



Obs. Rhaphis arundinacea {quantum Herat ex fpecimine Jiccato n r ,n 

 fruftifero dijudicare) hujus y tuque flabelliformis Jupra No. 1371, con- 

 gener. G. 



Specific Name and Synonyms. 



SABAL Adanfoni. Guerfent loc. cit. tab. 25/ refpeclu infior- 



efcentice parum bona. 

 SABAL minor s. Adanfoni. Perfoon Syn. 1. 399. 

 RAPHIS acatilis. Wtlld. Sp. PL 4. 1093. 

 CHAM^EROPS acaulis. Michanx Bar. Amer. 1. 207. 

 COR YP Li A minor. Jacq. Hort. Find. 3. 8. tab. 8. Murr. Syft. 



Veg. ed. 14. 984. Mart. Mill. Diet. n. 2. 

 C. pimila. V/alt. carol, 1 1 9. 

 SABAL. Adanfon Jam. 2. 495. 



Rootftock not caudefcent ; leaves radical, fan-fhaped-palmate, 

 fmooth ; petw'e i'enicylindric, thornlefs, longer [ban tbe bipar- 

 tite lamina t lobes contiguous-convergent unequally multifid,* 



frgments 



