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Thrinax belong in Coccothrinax. Thrinax argentea R. & S.; 
Thrinax radiata R. & S. (Thrinax gracilis, elegans and aurita of 
gardens). Wright’s no. 3966 from Cuba labeled Thrinax acu- 
minata Griseb, & Wendl., apparently an unpublished name, also 
belongs to this genus. 
Coccothrinax jucunda, n. sp. 
Thrinax parviflora Sargent, Forest Trees N. Am., Tenth Census U. S. 
9:217. 1884 (not Swartz); Silva 10:51, in part AZ. sro (excl. figure of leaf). 
Thrinax argentea Chapman, Flora S. St. [ed. 3] 462. 1897 (not Roemer 
& Schultes), 
Flowers raised on rigid spreading pedicels an eighth of an 
inch long; perianth white; anthers light yellow; ovary orange 
color; stigma pale rose color. Fruit from one half to three 
quarters of an inch in diameter, bright green when fully grown, 
later becoming succulent, bright violet color, very lustrous and 
ultimately nearly black, the flesh sweet and edible. Seed light 
tawny-brown, from an eighth to a quarter of an inch in diameter. 
Flowers in June and also irregularly in November ; fruit ripening 
Six months later. 
A tree with a stem slightly enlarged from the ground upward, 
from fifteen to twenty-five feet in height and from four to six 
inches in diameter, covered with pale blue-gray rind. Leaves. 
nearly orbicular but rather longer than broad, thin and brittle, 
from eighteen to twenty-four inches in diameter, divided to below 
the middle or toward the base of the leaf nearly to the ligule 
into narrow lobes, an inch across in their widest part, with much 
thickened bright orange-colored midribs and margins, pale yellow- 
green and very lustrous on the upper surface, bright silvery- 
white on the lower surface: rachis thin, undulate, obtusely short- 
pointed, dark orange colored; ligule thin, concave, crescent 
shaped, often oblique, slightly undulate, occasionally obtusely 
short-pointed, three quarters of an inch wide, one third of an 
inch deep, light or dark orange color; petioles slender, flexible, 
moon becoming pendent, rounded on the upper side, obscurely 
ribbed on the lower side, with low rounded ribs, from two and a 
