BREEFER ARTICLES 
THE FLOWERS OF WASHINGTONIA 
(WITH FIVE FIGURES) 
While my paper on the genus Washingtonia! was passing through the 
press, I had the pleasure of receiving from Dr. BEeccari a copy of his 
recent monograph of the Coryphine palms of America.? In his treatment 
of Washingtonia this distinguished palmographer gives much weight " 
certain floral characters which have been heretofore overlooked, and It 
seems desirable that these should be brought to the attention of American 
botanists, in order that their value may be tested by field studies. 
hese distinctions relate to the characters of the filaments, the stigma, 
and the summit of the ovary. In the flowers of Washingtonia the filaments 
of the stamens opposite the lobes of the petals are consolidated with them 
; for nearly oe ee 
ye lengils mae 
: than the free pee op- 
posite the sinuses. 
Washingtonia ee 
Wendl. is defined 
having the lobal mee 
he 
thickened - fusiform; t 
. 3-lobed, 
u 
top; the stigma undivided (‘‘puntiform® 
sempre ?”’). Fig. 1 represents this species, es 
Fic. 1.—W. filijera 
Wendl., Botanical Garden, 
Palermo, August, 1906.— 
O. BECCARI. X3.5 
and decidedly smaller seeds. 
is drawn from flowers of a tree growing in 
Botanical Garden at Palermo, Italy. 
Its variety microsperma Beccari d 
slightly less strongly fusiform lobal 
but mostly in its somewhat small ae 
Fig. 2 shows the variety, drawn from flo 
iffers in its 
filaments; 
er flower 
of a tree in the Garden Ricasoli, Port Ercole, Tuscany. 
Bor. Genie bas ieee figs. 12. Dec. 1907. I take this oppo 
two errors: Page 409, line 18, = Mueoae read “‘fifteen;” page 415, li 
bottom, for “the trees” read “most of the trees.” 
2 Bec , Opoarpo, Le Palme Americane della tribé Corypheae- 
dalla Webbia : 2: 2pp- 343- Oct. 1907. Firenze 
Botanical Gazette, vol. 46] 
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