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84 BOTANICAL GAZETITE _ [FEBRUARY 
clothed above with the long persistent vaginas, and long tough 
wiry roots covered with thick orange-brown loosely attached 
rind. Leaves alternate, induplicate in vernation, orbicular or 
truncate at the base, thick and firm, usually silvery white on the 
lower surface, more or less divided into two-parted obliquely 
folded lobes with thickened margins and midribs; rachis reduced 
to a narrow border with a thin usually undulate reflexed margin; 
ligule thick, concave, pointed, often lined while young with 
hoary tomentum; petioles stout, elongated, flattened, slightly 
rounded above and below, their margins thin and smooth, con- 
cave toward the base and gradually enlarged into vaginas of 
coarse netted fibers covered with thick hoary tomentum. Spadix 
paniculate, interfoliar, pedunculate, as long as or longer than the 
petioles; its primary branches short, alternate, compressed, 
incurved, furnished with numerous slender terete alternate 
flower-bearing branchlets in the axils of ovate acute scarious 
deciduous bracts; spathes numerous, tubular, thick and firm, 
coriaceous, two-cleft and more or less tomentose toward the 
apex. 
To Thrinax, in addition to the three Florida species, should be 
referred Thrinax parviflora Sw., Thrinax excelsa Griseb., Thnnat 
Morrisa H. Wendl., Thrinax sels Mart., and 7hrinax pumilid 
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PEDICELLATAE. Flowers long-pedicellate; perianth obscurtlla 
lobed or nearly truncate; filaments subulate, hardly united at 
the base, much exserted; stigma oblique. 
Thrinax Floridana, n. sp. 
Thrinax parviflora Vasey, Rep. U. S. Dept. Agric. 1875: 186 (ce 
_ Forest Trees U. S. (not Swartz) 1876.— Chapman, Bot. GAZETTE 3+ | 
Flora S. States, Suppl. [ed. 2] 651,[ed. 3] 462.— Sargent, Silva 10: 51 @ 
part), £7. 5zo as to the leaf. E 
Flowers on slender pedicels nearly an eighth of an inch lo 
ivory-white, very fragrant with a pungent aromatic odor. : 
from one quarter to three eighths of an inch in diameter, soot 
what depressed above and below. Seed from an i 
