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1. WASHINGTONIA, WKsr.LANi.. 

 Flowers unknown except f.on. the rcnnuns of the perianth found at the base of 



hilb ricl t 7 '' .'^, ^^°"--I^''^"°-. -th a cylindncal tube as long as 



Ob of ;^7-l--unded lobes ; pedicel short. Fruit a sn.all shortly stipftate 



b g.ova e lack rupe, w.th thin pulp and crustaceous endocarp, 1 -celled, and bear- 



yie Seed oblong-ovate, somewhat flattened on the ventral side, brownish with 



nn esta ; albumen entire, horny and oily ; embryo basal. - A tree, with circular 



flabell.form leaves; petioles armed with stout hooked marginal spines; ligule lar-^e 



11:7,7 ',"""'7' ?'''"^"' ^'"^"^ ^'"^^^ ""''"^^ ^-P')^ ^J«ft ^I'-g the 

 Pier folds and copiously hliferous : paniculately branching spadix glabrous. siLder 

 and elongated, from a narrow glabrous spathe. - A Californian genus. 



1. W. filifera, Wendl. ]5ecoming 20 to 40 feet high, with a cylindrical trunk 

 more or less enlarged at base (often 2 or 3 feet in diamet r), an.l c^v re w tl ho 

 persistent bases and sheaths of dead leaves: petioles very stout dab -ou 1-uo 



^i:7z:S^ixTni- '!^ ""T'l'-' --i--tiveiy{hin towa;:r;h: mi^^; 



L 1 , 11 T ^," ^^ ""'"' •'•'^'■'^'^ "*' t''« «"""»it in well developed leaves ' 



fe AorGoV?:;';:"^^ conspicuous lacerate; blade tomentose on the^na.g n of 



tl^ie (40 GO) lolds, 3 to 5 feet in diameter, cleft on the upper side nea.lv to the 



bZ^I n{^ thin sweet pulp: seed 3 lines long. - Bot.°Zeit. xxxvii. G8. 

 PkZ^n%^' Cooper Smithson. Kep. 18G0, 442. Brahea niamentosa, Hort. 

 ^to^l-^xl^^"' "^"•' ^'"^'' ^'''- ^-"^'- '^■^-^'^^- «07;" Fenzi, Jhill. Soc. 



2. ERYTHEA, Waison. 

 Flowers perfect, sessile, in a loose decon.poun.l panicle ; calyx campanulate, some- 

 what scarious, 3-parted, shorter than the thick valvate 3.cleft corolla. Stamen. G • 

 /.laments thick, connate and adnate to the corolla, free and deltoid above and seta- 

 ceously tipped; anthers small, round-oblong, obtuse. Ovary of 3 nearly distinct 

 oblong carpels, with very short united styles; two of the carpels usually abortive. 

 I'ru.t a globose black drupe, the thick fleshy emlocarp somewhat adherent to the 

 subglobose seed. Hilum at one side of the base. Albumen excavated to the mi.l- 

 dle on the ventral side and filled by the brown thickened testa. Embryo near the 

 base.— Tall trees, with nake.l trunks, flabelliform plicate fdiferous leaves and 

 densely tomentose .sheaths and inflorescence. Spathes sheathing. Flowei-s solitary 

 or in clusters, scattered along the numerous branches of the pendent panicle. 

 Fetioles pubescent or glabratc, unarmed or with stout hooks on the margin ; ligulo 

 appressed, densely tomentose ; rhachis of the leaf short, and the blade deeply deft 

 down both the upper and lower folds and more or less fibrous on the margins. 



Only the following speries are known. Th.' genus is very nearly nliie.l to Lh-uifoita, ofAus- 

 tralia and eastern Asia, wlncli difiers in its distinct (ilanients, ol.long fruit will, hard crustaceous 



