100 ORNAMENTAL GARDENING 



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 



