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DICECIA IIEXANDRIA. 



Palm Oil Tree. Hughes. 111. 



Oily Palm Tree. Alton, 

 occidcn- E. frondibus pinnatis : foliolis vaginatis 

 talis. stipitibus caudiceque inermi. Wilhl. 



Sp. PL 4. p. 799. Swtz. FL 619. 

 Cordage Palm. 



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MAUIUTIA. 



vinifera 





Palmse. Lin, Jusft. Brown. 



M. cadice elato stricto inermi, frondibus 

 flabelliforrai-pinnatifidis concoloribus, pe" 

 tiolis semiteretibus canaliculatis, squa- 

 mis baccarum ovatarum subsequaliter 

 rhombeis. Mart. Palm. 42. t. 38, 39. 



/. 1,2. 



Straight-stem'd Mauritia. Sweet. 



spinosa major of Sloane. I should have had no hesitation in 

 adopting the above synonym oven without the authority of Swartz, 

 from which however I derive additional confidence. I have felt 

 obliged to exclude the synonym from Browne admitted in the 

 species Plantarum, for his Palma caudice aculeatissimo, and 

 Sloane's Palma spinosa minor, refer to the small Macaw 

 Tree— a prickly Palm s^romns in Jamaica, which I have not 

 seen in Barbados. 



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