8^: Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Small or medium-sized trees with slender stems and irregularly pinnate leaves; 

 flowers situated in pockets in the thickened branches of the spike; fruits 

 about 1 cm. long i8r. Calyplronoma dulcis. 



175. Colpothrinax Wiightii H. Wendland. 

 Colpothrinax Wrightii H. Wendland, in Kerchove, Les Palmiers, 1878, p. 241. 



Near Nueva Gerona, February 23, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 364. 

 General Distribution: Cuba, and the Isle of Pines. 



176. Thiinax Wendlandiana Beccari. 

 Thrinax Wendlandiana Beccari, in Webbia, II, 1908, p. 265. 



Along rocky seaward face of the ridge at Bibijagua, where with 

 Pliimiera emarginata, it forms a large part of the taller vegetation 

 just above the reach of the spray, May 7, 19 10, 0. E. Jennings, No. 

 112; at the edge of the blufif of coralline limestone along the coast at 

 Caleta Grande, where it forms quite a thicket, May 22, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 512. General Distribution: Isle of Pines. West Indies 

 (Kew Index). 



1177. Acoelorraphe Wrightii (Grisebach & Wendland) Beccari.. 



Saw Palmetto. 



fCopernicia Wrightii Grisebach & Wendland, in Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum 



Cubensium, 1866, p. 220. 

 J'aurotis androsana O. F. Cook, Alemoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club, XII, 1902, 

 ^ t)'. 22. 



Acoelorraphe Wrightii Beccari, Webbia, II, 1907, p. 109. 



Paurotis Wrightii Britton & Shafer, North American Trees, 1908, p. 141 (in 

 part), fig. 107. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April 17, 1904, A. H. CurHss, No. 44Q; in open 

 savanna one mile east of Nueva Gerona, May 6, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 64; in sandy pine-barrens east of Los Indios, May 18, 1910, 

 O. E. Jennings, No. 361. General Distribution: Southern Florida, 

 Bahamas, Cuba, and the Isle of Pines. 



This is the common palmetto of the savannas of the northern 

 part of the island, where it grows either singly or in clumps. The 

 plants reach a height of fifteen feet, or occasionally more. The 

 writer has followed Sargent, "Trees and Shrubs," II, 1913, p. 119, 

 in the synonymy of this species. Sargent distinguishes between this 

 species and Accelorraphe arborescens of Southern Florida, the latter 

 species not having the petioles strongly toothed throughout their 

 whole length as in A. Wrightii, and the fruits having a diameter of 

 S-9 mm. instead of 5-7 mm. as in ^. Wrightii. 



