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(pro parte ?). — Sprenger in Bull. Tosc. Ort. XIV, 319, f. 37. — Beccari in- 

 Webbia, II, \S7 .— W. filamentosa, O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. II, 737 (1891).- 

 — Sargent, Silva N. Am. X, 47, t. DIX (pro parte ? ) — Braliea dulcis, 

 Cooper, Smithon. Rep. 1860, 342 (not Martins). — Pritchardia filamentosa, 

 H. Wendl. in Bot. Zeitg. vol. 34, 807 (1876) ; Fenzi in Bull. Soc. Tosc. 

 Ort. I, (1876)116, cum icone xyl. — Pritchardia Jilifera, Jjinden, 111. Hort. 

 vol. 24, 105 (1877) cumic. xyl. — Braliea filamentosa, Hort. ex S. Wats, in 

 Proc. Am. Acad. XI. (1876), 14:7 .—Brahea filifera. Hort. ex W. Wats, in 

 Kew Bull. (1889) 296. — Brahea robiista, Hort. ex Salomon, Palmen (1887), 

 1,51. — Coryplia filifera, Hort. ex Salomon, I.e. 151. — Livistona filifera,. 

 Makay and Livistona ternatensis, Hort. ex Salomon I.e. 174. 



Description. — Stem rising to a height of 60-70 feet, slightly 

 thickened near the base, where it measures 2^-3^ feet in diameter, 

 then columnar and getting slightly thinner towards the apex, 

 covered with the dead pendent leaves. Leaves large, measuring 

 5f feet from the apex of the petiole to the end of the central 

 segments. Petiole about as long as the limb, dilated at the base 

 into a coriaceous sheath which (in the centre of the crown) 

 measures about 3 feet from its point of attachment to the point 

 where the spines begin, more or less 13- inches broad at the apex 

 and often -^ inch only, much broader towards the base, plain above, 

 convex below, in the leaves of old plants armed on the margins of 

 the lower half with small spines which are deltoid, slightly or not 

 at all uncinate, 1-^% inch long ; for the rest the petiole is free of 

 spines or shows a very small one here and there ; ligule triangular, 

 in shape and length like the rachis, with membraneous dry 

 margins ; rachis triangular-elongate, twice or twice and a half 

 times as long as broad, not co anting the apical prolongation 

 which projects into the limb. Limb divided to about the middle 

 into about 80 segments, with long pale filaments between the 

 segments and on the margins, equally green and glabrous on both 

 surfaces; each segment deeply two-cleft and the two divisions 

 arising thereof very acuminate and lacerate-filamentose at the 

 extreme end ; the central segments at the height of the deepest 

 divisions are l^-lf inches broad, the outer segments become 

 gradually narrower and shorter and more deeply divided, the outer- 

 most segments are only ?-f inch broad and much shorter than 

 the others. Spadices very large, arcuate-nutant, longer than the 



