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^ inch long, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate at the apex but 

 ■often very shortly bifid, and this occurs oftener in the stamens 

 which are opposite to the petals. Cai'pels 3, very small, free at 

 the base, forming a body slightly longer than ^^ inch ; ovary 

 turbinate, obtuseljr trigonous, trilobed and strongly gibbous above ; 

 the 3 carpels very abruptly contracted into one filiform trisul- 

 cate style with one punctiform undivided and not thickened 

 stigma. 



As to the ' undivided style ' Beccari does not wish to assert more 

 than what he saw when examining several flowers, and he does not 

 exclude the possibility of the stigma opening into 3 lobes at a 

 ■certain moment of the development of the flower. 



Fruits ovoid, similar in every point to those of the tj^pical form, 

 but long and short diameter by ^ inch smaller ; seeds accordingly 

 reduced. 



Habitat. — The original home of this variety is as little known 

 as that of the type. 



Cultivation in Europe. — In 1874 Linden brought very j^'oung 

 specimens to Florence. Since then they have been growing in 

 different gardens in the vicinitj^ of Florence and Viareggio and 

 have produced flowers and fruits. 



There is no doubt that the same variety is cultivated in many 

 other establishments in Europe and probabl}^ also in India, but 

 they have never been distinguished as such. It is quite possible 

 that a closer examination of all the specimens now known under 

 the specific name of W. filifera will disclose many other varieties, 

 and if the number of varieties is increasing, botanists will probably 

 find it convenient one day to reduce all of them to the old well 

 established W. filifera, H. Wendl. 



WASHINGTONIA ROBUST A, H. Wendl. in Berl. Garten Zeit. II 

 (1883), 198.— Rev. Horb. 1883, 206 et 1885, 401, f. 73.— Bull. Soc. Tosc. 

 Ort., 1883, 117 et 1886, 301.— Orcutt in Bot. Gazette, IX (1885), 262.— 

 Becc. Webbia, II (1907), \'d4..— W. filifera, {non Wendl.) S. Watson in 

 Bot. Cal. II, 211, 485. — WasMwjtonia filifera, Wendl. var. robusta, Parish in 

 Bot. Gaz., vol. 44 (1907), 420. 



