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5. Erythea edulis (Wendl.) S. Wats. Bot. Calif, 2: 212, 1880. 



Brahea edulis Wendl.; S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 11: 146. 1876. 



Known only from Guadalupe Island, Baja California. Cultivated in south- 

 ern California. 



Trunk sometimes 9 meters high and 37 cm. in diameter, covered with thick 

 corky cracked bark ; petioles stout, unarmed ; leaf blades about a meter long, 

 with 70 to 80 folds, tomentose at first ; inflorescence 1.2 meters long, tomen- 

 tose ; f i-uit about 2.5 cm. in diameter, with thick pulp. 



The fruit clusters are said to weigh 40 to 50 pounds. The pulp of the fruit 

 is sweet and edible. The buds also are eaten. 



7. BRAHEA Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 243. 1836-50, 

 Reference: Beccari, Webbia 2: 92-107. 1907. 



Plants with tall unarmed trunks ; leaves flabelliform, cleft into numerous 

 segments ; fruit of 1 to 3 1-seeded carpels. 



Flowers glomerate-ternate 1. B. pimo. 



Flowers solitary. 

 Branches of the inflorescence terete, stout, densely tomentose-velutinous, 



the flowers partly immersed ; leaves filiferous 2, B, calcarea. 



Branches of the inflorescence filiform, puberulent, the flowers sessile; leaves 

 not filiferous 3. B. dulcis. 



1. Brahea pimo Becc. Webbia 2: 103. 1907. 



Type from Monte de la Ventana, Michoac5,n or Guerrero. 

 Trunk 3 to 4 meters high ; spadices about 40 cm. long, thrice branched. 

 " Pimo." 



2. Brahea calcarea Liebm. ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 3: 319. 1836-50. 

 Described from mountains near Jalcomulco, Veracruz, altitude about 600 



meters. 



Trunk about 6 meters high, naked ; petioles smooth ; inflorescence about 25 

 cm. long, the branches flexuous, pendulous. 



3. Brahea dulcis (H. B. K.) Mart. Nat. Hist. Palm. 3: 244. pi. 137, 162. 183&-50. 

 Corypha dulcis H. B, K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1 : 300. 1815. 



Nuevo Le6n to Sinaloa and Oaxaca ; type from " La Moxonera et Alto de 

 las Caxas." 



Trunk 2.5 to 6 meters high, or sometimes nearly obsolete, 15 to 20 cm, 

 thick, unarmed ; leaves green or pale green, sparsely filiferous, the margins of 

 the petioles coarsely spine-toothed ; inflorescence 1^ to 2,5 meters long, pendu- 

 lous, the branchlets very thick, tomentose ; fruit globose, yellow, succulent ; seed 

 white, ovate, very hard, " Palmito " (Durango, Nuevo Leon); " cocaiste " 

 (MichoacSn, Guerrero) ; " palma apache" (Hidalgo, Puebla, Urbina) ; " palma 

 dulce" (Puebla, Guerrero, Ramirez); "palma de sombrero," "palma soyal " 

 (Guerrero, Hidalgo); " soyale " (various localities, Ramirez); " zoyate," 

 "soyate" (Hidalgo, Jalisco, Oaxaca)-; "palma de abanico " (Oaxaca) ; "yaga- 

 xina " (Oaxaca, Zapotec, Reko) ; " yucu-teyeye," " yutnu-nun " (Oaxaca, Mixtec, 

 Reko). 



Wood very hard and heavy, used for frames of houses. Leaves used for 

 thatching. The fruit (known in Durango as " michire " or "miche") is sweet 

 and edible, 



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