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Indian forms. Not long ago Professor C. S. Sargent discovered 
that three of these were new and bestowed new names on them 
and described them. 
T. floridana has been sold as T. parviflora and was so named 
by Vasey. It has been found on the southwest coast of the 
state from Cape Romano to Cape Sable and on several of the 
lower keys. The leaves are yellow green above and silvery 
beneath, and the slightly tapering stem is from four to six inches 
in diameter; the tree occasionally reaches a height of thirty feet. 
T. keyensis is a stouter tree than the last, as its stem some- 
times reaches a diameter of fourteen inches, with rather smooth, 
ashen gray bark. It has large, thin leaves which are silvery 
underneath and dark green above. It has been reported from 
the Marquesas and Crab Keys, but lately was found by Mr. 
John Soar and the writer on Pumpkin Key. It has a base of 
thick, matted roots. 
T. microcarpa is a taller and more slender species than the 
last and has no basal enlargement: the under side of the leaves 
is silvery. 
T. wendlandiana is a very common form on the lower keys 
and on parts of the south shore of the mainland, also in Cuba. 
This species has been continually confused by botanists, having 
been identified under several other names. The writer called 
Professor Sargent’s attention to the fact that its leaves were 
green beneath and insisted that it was new to Florida, and when 
specimens were submitted to Beccari, the Italian palm expert, 
he pronounced it to be this Cuban species. The leaves often 
show a tendency to face each other in parallel series. It has 
a taller and more slender stem than our other species. 
Coccothrinax jucunda is a beautiful palm which grows on several 
of the lower keys and is closely related to Thrinax. It has a 
smooth, brownish gray stem and elegant, glossy, fan leaves 
which are brilliantly silvered beneath. It rarely reaches a height 
of twenty-five feet, but when finely grown is a most beautiful 
object. 
C. garberi is very much like jucunda but is smaller in all its 
parts, and, if possible, is more beautiful and more satiny beneath 
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