DESCKirTION OF SPECIES— PALM^. 119 



PALMOCARPON, Lesqx, 



Fruits of various size and forms, generally surrounded by a shelly pericarp, and found in connec- 

 tion with remains of Paluis. 



Palinocarpon composituni, Lesqz. 



Plate XI, Fig. 4. 



Carpolitlies comjjositus, Lesqx., Supplement to Annual Eeport, 1871, p. 16. 



Fruits oval, obtusely pointed, narrowed to the base, where they are joined five together, striate in 

 the length. 



The specimen represents a fragment of a short pedicel, to which five oval 

 nutlets are attached close together, the upper ones larger and apparently 

 crushed, the middle ones oval, obtusely pointed, one and a half centimeters 

 long, seven millimeters thick in the middle, the lovs^er one smaller, all dis- 

 tinctly striate in the length. This species seems related to the fruits of 

 Sabal ? fructifera (fig 3 of the same plate). The upper part of the speci- 

 men is, hovi^ever, crushed. Their union to a short pedicel of a close raceme 

 relates them to the fruits of some Palms, as seen when enveloped in their 

 spathe. 



Habitat. — Placifere Mountain, New Mexico (Dr. F. V. Hayden). 



P a I m ocarpoii JTIexicanum, Lesqx. 



Plate XI, Fig. 5. 



CarpolUhes Mexkanus, Lesqx., Supplement to Annual Eeport, 1871, p. 17. 



Fruit rounded on one side, rapidly narrowed to a point, surrounded by a shelly envelope, smooth 

 or without distinct striie except a few near the point. 



This fruit is broadly ovate, pointed or round on one side, narrowed to a 

 truncate point, twenty-five millimeters long and sixteen millimeters across 

 the middle; its surface is smooth, without striae, but with a few irregular 

 splits, which show a thin shelly pericarp. 



This fruit is comparable to those of many species of Palms, especially 

 those of Astrocaryum and Badris, like Bactris macrocarjm, Wall., Astrocaryum 

 acaule, Mart., etc. 



Habitat.— Same as the former, with fragments of large rays of Sabal?, 

 which measure four centimeters across {Dr. F. V. Hayden). 



Paliuocarpon coniniiinc, Lesqz. 



Plate XIII, Figs. 4-7. 



CarpolUhes palviarvm, Lesqx., Supplement to Annual Report, 1871, p. 13 (in part) ; Ancnal Eeport, 1872, 

 pp. 3?2, 398. 



Fruits large, orbicular when surrounded with the shelly exocarp, round-oval, slightly truncate on 

 one end, broadly, obscurely pointed at the other, and very minutely and indistinctly veined wlien this 

 envelope is destroyed. 



These fruits, about three centimeters in diameter, and nearly globular 



