450 PALMACEAE. [ Pritchardia. 
1. PRITCHARDIA, Seem. & Wendl. 
Flowers Sayed haa pay canny coriaceous. Outer perianth tubular- 
campanulate, 3-toothed, the -parted and with a very short tube which 
is connate with the ans cup, the segments ovate-lanceolate, valvate, 
deciduous from the tube, Stamens 6, equal, connate below in a tube or 
cup, the anthers linear-oblong. Ovary trigonous or three-lobed, 3-celled, 
with 1 erect ohegs in each cell, Style single, tri- meee attenuate, with 
3 minute stigmas. Drupe dryish, with a single nut or coccus, the pericarp 
thin fibrous, 72 eas drantaceous. Albumen sea ils slightly impressed 
on the ventral side by the rhaphe and chalaza, the embryo located at its 
ack above the base. — Trunks pata unarmed. Leaves terminal, 
fan-shaped, Pie ek with unarmed petioles. Spadix a thrice branching 
anicle on a long axillary peduncle, enclosed at first in several thick 
coriaceous cylindrical spath 
A Polynesian genus of 3 known pie: one of which inhabits the Viti, Samoa and 
Tonga Islands, perhaps also the eo, ate unless ph alm growing there should prove 
to be a distinet f fourth species. ime Seem. Fl. Vit 274. 
eaves woolly-matted underneath; fruit ut ovoid .  . 1, P. Gaudichaudii. 
Leaves glabrous underneath; iui larger, globos : : : 2. P. Marti. 
1. P. Gaudichaudii, H. Wendl. in Bonpl. X, 199. — Trunk about 20 ft. 
high and tft in diameter. Leaves on petioles of 2—3 ft., orbicular, 
easuring 3—4 ft. in length and somewhat less in width, covered un- 
prematag satiety near the base, with a pale-brown matted wool, slit 
for the space of about 1 ft. into about 60 segments, a fibrous thread of 
about 6‘ in length MEER from each sinus, the segments again slit at 
the top into 2 linear-acute lobes; the petioles ragged at the base, concave- 
convex, with sharp edges, ending in front of the leaf with a short semi- 
circular plate, but prolonged at the back into a suddenly contracting arrow 
shaped rhachis of about 6‘. Spadix 1!/2—2 ft. long, enveloped before 
expansion by 5 lanceolate-oblong-spathes of nearly 1 ft. in length, which 
‘are furfuraceous externally. Flowers sessile along nearly the entire length 
of the tortuous, more or less tomentose branches of the panicle; the bract- 
lets short filiform. Calyx 1'/2—2”, glabrous. Petals a lanceolate, 
3—4”, inserted above the base of the staminal cup. Filaments 2—3”, their 
free saretiion at length reflexed. Style as long as the petals, wate? ‘acute. 
e ovoid, 9“, yellowish-red, the somewhat fleshy mesocarp traversed 
by longitudinal fibres. — Livistonia(?) Gaudichaudii, Mart. Palm. p. 242. 
palm, the <Loulu lelo» of the natives, has been found in its wild state on rocky 
cliffs of the northern coast of Molokai! and on the Kohala ridge of Hawaii! Single 
I nm the woods of E i an ai, but under circumstances 
which made it probable that they had been planted by the hand of ma 
frequently m tive dwellings, and between Kailua and Keala 
keakua, Hawaii, there are two small groves of it. There seem to be two marked va- 
tieties of sp the peraeest and those generally geo er cies 
