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~ CHamzrops numitis. Dwarr Fan-Pao. 
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Class and Order. 
Poryeamia Diacia. 
Generic Character. 
Hermapu. Cal. 3-partitus. Cor. 3-petala. Stam. 6. Pist. 3. 
Drupe 3, 1-sperme. 
Masc. Cal. 3 partitus. Cor. 3-petala. Stam 6. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. — 
Cuamarops humilis ; frondibus palmatis : stipitibus spinosis, 
spatha simplici. Willd. Sp. Pl. 4. p. 1154. Hort. 
Kew. ed. alt. v. 5. p. 489. Bot. Repos. 599. 
Cuamzrors humilis; frondibus palmatis plicatis, stipitibus 
spinosis. Hort. Cliff. 482. Sp. Pl. 1637. Desfont. 
Alil. 2. p. 487. Fabric. Helm. p. 383. Persoon Syn. 
1. p. 400. 7 
Cuamzripnes. Dod. Pempt. 820. Gertn. Sem. 1. p. 26. 
oF. 
Charknoads tricarpos, spinosa, folio flabelliformi. Ponted. 
Anth. p. 147. t. 8, 9, and 10. 
Parma minor seu Chameriphes. Bauwh. Hist. 1. p. 369. 
Pua@nix humilis. Cavan. Ic. 2. p. 12. t. 115. 
According to WiiipENow there are two varieties of this 
plant ; one almost without any stem, the other with a stem 
twenty feet high. 
The plant from which our drawing was taken was a male © 
plant, having no germen or style, and consequently sterile : 
the one described by Fasricivs appears to have been an 
hermaphrodite, but the anthers were perhaps imperfect ; for 
though it annually bore fruit, these were not succulent, and 
none of the seed, though planted from year to year, would 
germinate. 
_ Native of the South of Europe, and is particularly plen- 
tiful in some parts of Sicily and Spain, where it spreads over 
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