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TREES OF NORTH AMERICA 



A tree, with a slightly tapering stem 20-30 high and 4'-6' in diameter, clothed to the 

 middle and occasionally almost to the ground with the sheaths of dead leaf-stalks. 



Fig. 94 



Distribution. Florida, dry coral ridges and sandy shores of keys from Long Key to 

 Torch Key, and on the mainland from Cape Romano to Cape Sable. 



2. Thrinax Wendlandiana Becc. Thatch. 



Leaves 2|-3 in diameter, orbicular, pale yellow-green, lustrous above, with a thick 

 concave ligule, acuminate or rarely rounded at apex; petioles 2-4 long, much thick- 



Fig. 95 



ened and tomentose toward the base. Flowers: spadix stalked, 2-4 long, its primary 

 branches short, flattened, incurved, with numerous terete flower-bearing branchlets; 

 flowers on slender pedicels iV"!' long, with a deeply lobed perianth, the lobes nearly 



