Palmae. 
Santa Barbara, California, by the Government Nurseryman of the Board of 
Agriculture and Forestry, without the knowledge of the writer. Dr. Francesci 
forwarded the seeds to O. Beceari, on which the above species was based ; from 
where and whom Beceari received the description of flowers, leaves, ete., is a 
mystery, as no one but the writer had ever collected that species and only the 
seeds at that. The description as given in Webbia III, pl. 137, is therefore 
apocryphal and entirely unreliable. 
Mr. Gerrit P. Wilder, while on an excursion to Halemanu, Kauai, was re- 
quested by the writer again to collect Pr. minor, as flowers, leaves, ete., were 
wanted. On May 11th Mr. Wilder sent a box of specimens of a palm, which 
was, however, not the desired Pr. minor, but a new species named since by Beceari 
Pr. eriophora sp. nov. The Pr. minor was again collected by the writer on 
Kauai in the forests of Kaholuamano in October, 1911, differing, however, some- 
what from the one found at Halemanu. The palm from the latter place has a 
slender stem and is quite tall, 20-30 feet in height, with a trunk of about 10 em 
in diameter; the leaves are small and pubescent or woolly underneath; the fruits 
are of the size of a small, black, ripe olive, and are eovered with a black glossy 
pericarp. The specimens from Kaholuamano agree well with the writer’s notes 
of the palm from Halemanu, with the exception of its general appearance; the 
trunk is shorter and thicker and the whole palm has not the slender aspect of that 
from Halemanu. No type exists of Pr. minor, except the seeds now in Beceari’s 
possession. 
Pritchardia eriophora Becc. 
Loulu. 
PRITCHARDIA ERIOPHORA Bece. in Webbia IV. p. ? 
A tall slender palm 12 m or more high with a slender trunk; leaves small on short 
petioles which are densely covered with a matted light brown wool; spadices short; panicles 
short, the branches almost hidden by the thick matted wool which unites the branchlets 
almost into a compact mass as if covered with cotton; fruits very small, 12 to 15 mm long, 
8 10 mm wide, black, shining. 
This species was discovered by Mr. Gerrit P. Wilder in the forest-swamps of 
Halemanu, Kauai, and specimens were sent to the writer by him in May, 1911. 
It is an exceedingly interesting species and quite unique among Hawaiian Prit- 
chardias. It is, however, close to Pr. minor, from the same island. None of the 
palms so far found on Kauai have as large fruits as those found on the other 
islands of the Hawaiian group, another incident showing the great difference of 
species on Kauai from those of the geologically younger islands. The co-type 
is no. 8846 in the College of Hawaii Herbarium. 
Pritchardia Rockiana Becc. 
Loulu. 
PRITCHARDIA ROCKIANA Bece, in Webbia IV. p. ? 
A small tree 5 m high, trunk 3 dm in diameter, and of a gray eolor; leaves large, 
glabrous above but furfuraceous and lighter colored underneath; panicle open and spread- 
ing, freely branching, subglabrous; fruits large, obovate. 
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