DESGKirTION OF srECIES— PALM^. 119 



PALMOCARPON, Lesqx, 



Fruits of variouH size and forms, gCDerally sunouiideil by a shelly pericarp, and found in connec- 

 tion with reniaiuBoC I'aliiis. 



Paliiiocarpoii composituiu, Lesqz. 



Plate XI, Fig. 4. 



Catpoliihcs comjweitus, Lesqx., Supplement to Annual Keport, 1871, p. 16. 



Fruits oval, obtusely poiuted, 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 tive 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 lower 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, however, 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. — Placi^re Mountain, New Mexico {Dr. F. V. Hayden). 



P a I ni ocarpou jnexicaiium, Iieeqz. 



Plate XI, Fig. 5. 



CarpolHhes Mexicavua, Lesqx., Supplement to Annual Report, 1871, p. 17. 



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

 or without distinct strise 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 inacrocarjm, 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). 

 P a I ni o V a r p u n commune, Lesqx. 

 Plato XIII, Figs. 4-7. 



CarpoUthes palmamm, Lesqx., Supplement to Annual Report, 1871, p. 13 (in part); Annual Report, 1873, 

 pp. 382, 3D8. 



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 vcine<l when this 

 envelope is destroyed. 



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



