86 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



i8i. Calyptronoma dulcis (Wright) Wendland. 

 Geonoma dulcis Wright, in Grisebach, Catalogus Plantarum Cubensium, 1866, 



p. 222. 

 Calyptronoma dulcis H. Wendland, in Kerchove, Les Palmiers, 1878, p. 241. 



Near Nueva Gerona, May 7, 1904, A. H. Curliss, No. 485; at base 

 of Caballos Mts., near old marble quarry, May 9, 1910, 0. E. Jen- 

 nings, No. 159. General Distribution: Western Cuba and the Isle 

 of Pines. 



182. Roystonea regia (Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth) O. F. Cook. 



Royal Palm. 



Oreodoxa regia Humboldt, Bonpland, & Kunth, Nova Genera et Species Plan- 

 tarum, I, 1815, p. 305. 

 Roystonea regia O. F. Cook, Science, Series II, XII, 1900, p. 479. 



Near Nueva Gerona, April i, 1904, A. H. Curtiss, No. 432; Keenan's 

 estate, south of Nueva Gerona, May 9, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, No. 181. 

 General Distribution: Southern Florida, the West Indies, and Central 

 America. 



The Royal palm is a beautiful object, its tall white trunk usually 

 standing sharply outlined against the other colors of the landscape. 

 The trees occur in the moister spots along the streams and in the 

 lower spots on the savanna. They commonly form clumps or small 

 groves about the bases of the Casas and Caballos Mts., the roots 

 here evidently reaching the moisture which drains away from the 

 mountains. See Plate IX. 



183. Cocos nucifera Linnaeus. 

 Cocos nucifera Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, 1753, p. 1188. 



The coconut palm is commonly cultivated in the Isle of Pines. 

 Along the "South Coast" at Caleta Grande, as well as along the coast 

 near Bibijagua, specimens were seen which, from their location, 

 would indicate that they had not been planted there. The coconut 

 palm, now widely distributed through the tropics, probably had its 

 origin in the tropics of America. See Cook, "History of the Coconut 

 Palm in America," Contributions from the United States National 

 Herbarium, XIV, 1910, pp. 271-342. 



Note. Blain, Nos. 75 & 94 were reported by Millspaugh (Field 

 Columbian Museum, Bot. Series, I, 1900, p. 426) as Sabal Black- 

 burnianjim Glaziou, and Blain, No. ijo, as Geonoma Swartzii Grise- 



