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PSEUDOPHG@NIX SARGENTI. 
Pseudophcenix Sargenti, H. Wendland, Garden and iv. 408, f. 56.— André, Rev. Hort. 1888, 482, 574, f. 
Forest, i. 352, £. 55, 56 (1888). — Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 140, 141. 
A tree, from twenty to twenty-five feet in height, with a trunk twelve or fifteen feet long and ten 
or twelve inches in diameter. The leaves are five or six feet in length, with pinne often eighteen 
inches long and an inch wide near the middle of the leaf, and at its extremities six or eight inches long 
and from one third to one half of an inch wide, rachises an inch wide at the base, and petioles six or 
eight inches in length. The spadix is three feet long and two and a half feet wide, and, as the fruit 
ripens in May and June, probably appears in the autumn. The fruit, which is showy in color, is from 
one half to three quarters of an inch across, and is raised on a peduncle a quarter of an inch long. The 
seed is a quarter of au inch in diameter. 
Pseudophenix Sargenti inhabits the east end of Elliott?s Key, Florida, where there are a few 
individuals ; and in sandy soil mingled with Reynosia latifolia and Pisonia obtusata, on the eastern 
end of Key Largo, a short distance from the southern shore, it forms a grove containing about two 
hundred plants, varying from seedlings two or three feet high to full-grown trees. 
Attempts have been made to transfer young plants from the grove on Key Largo’ into gardens, 
but they have not yet proved particularly successful, and unless Pseudophenia Sargenti also inhabits 
some of the Bahama Islands, as is not improbable, it seems destined to speedy extermination. 
1 Curtiss, Garden and Forest, i. 279. 
