Palmae. 



Hist. Nat. Palm. III. (1836-50) 242 et 319. Washingtonia Gaudichaudii O. 

 Ktze. Eev. Gen. PL II. (1891) 737. Eupritchardia Gaudichaudii 0. Ktze. Eev. 

 Gen. PI. III. 2. (1898) 323. 



Canclex of medium height 1.5 to 2 m; 30 cm in diameter; young fronds squamose under- 

 neath, small, narrow lanceolate, attenuate on both ends, with scattered silvery pubescence, 

 with about 20 or more segments connate to the middle; spadices about 1 m, spathes with 

 a scattered glaucous scaliness, sheathed, panicles rather short, erect; branchlets sinuous, 

 glabrous; flowers alternately distichous, calyx tubular-eampanulate, sharply 3-dentate, out- 

 side conspicuously striate-nervate; fruits large spherical, 4 cm and more in diameter, the 

 very minute subsymmetrically apiculate style deciduous from the carpels, pericarp fibrous- 

 grumose, 3 to 4 mm thick, endocarp osseous, 1 mm; seeds globose, embryo subbasal. 



This species was discovered by Gaudichaud, probably on Oahu. The above 

 description is a translation of Beccari's Latin description as published in Ma- 

 lesia, and is based on the original material. He says, "For the description of 

 the floriferous spadix Hillebrand's specimens served me, and as I have said, re- 

 ferred Pr. Martii of Hillebrand to Pr. Gaudichaudii. The fruits which I at- 

 tribute to Pr. Gaudichaudii and are here described were communicated to me 

 from Kew, and were collected by Stephen Spencer in the year 1884 on the small 

 island off Molokai (a small rock supposedly cast off from the face of Waikolu 

 cliff, Molokai, where also trees of Hillebrand's second species grow, by him re- 

 ferred to Pr. Martii)." 



He then describes in detail specimens in the various Herbaria, as fronds to 

 be found in the Herbarium Webb at Florence, etc. Suffice it to say, the writer, 

 according to Beccari, to whom all the palm material was submitted, has not as 

 yet collected Pr. Gaudichaudii in a wild state, though specimens are cultivated 

 in Honolulu. 



Pritchardia Martii H. \Yendl. 

 Loulu. 



PRITCHARDIA MARTII H. Wendl. in Bonplandia X. (1862) 199; Seem. Fl. Vit. (1868) 

 274; H. Mann in Journ. of Bot. VII. (1869) 177; Hlbd. Fl. Haw. Isl. (1888) 451 

 (tantum quoad Spec. Lydg. e Xiu?). O. Beccari in Malesia III. (1889) 297 tab. 

 XXXVIII. fig. 14, 15. Livistona (?) Martii Gaud. Bot. A T oy. Bon. (1844-52) t. 

 58-59; Mart. Nat. Palm. III. (1836-50) 242 et 319. Washingtonia Martii O. Ktze. 

 Rev. Gen. PI. III. 2. (1898) 323. 



Trunk of medium height. Petioles unarmed, ligule rotundate, leaf pluri-radiate, su- 

 borbicular, with 40 segments connate not quite to the middle, coriaceous, intermediate 

 threads to 1/3 bifid, densely covered underneath with a griseous-furfuraceous tomentum; 

 fruit elliptical, the albumen in the ventral part not ruminate, testa only thickened; fruit 

 of the size of an ordinary plum with the residuous stigmas at the acute vertex, glabrous; 

 fruit-flesh about 4 mm thick; seeds globose-elliptical, testa dusky, shining, thicker in the 

 part in which the embryo is imbedded; embryo subbasal, the small wart produced, conical, 

 2 mm long. 



Gaudichaud has not indicated the precise location where he collected this 

 species, but it is believed to have come from Oahu. Beccari says that he him- 

 self has correctly referred to Pr. Martii the specimens often cited by Lydgate; 

 this species can be found growing at Cape Niu. He continues, "Pritchardia 

 Martii is in all probability very close to Pr. Gaudichaudii, but can be distin- 

 guished from the latter above all in the elliptical fruits and not globose ones, 



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