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(1907), 20.— Sabal minor, Pers. Enchir. I, 399.— Spreng. Syst. Veg. II, 137.— 

 Sabal pumila, Ell. Sketch I, 430 (exind. Kew.) — Sabal minima, Nott. in Ann. 

 Journ. Sc. Ser. 1, V (1822), 293 (ex Ind. Kew.). — Sabal caroliniana, Hort. 

 Paris, tide Schult. til. ex Kunth En. Ill, 2^Q.—(f) Sabal taurina, Lodd, 

 Cat. 1849 ex Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 320.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. West 

 Ind. 514.— O. F. Cook in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 1901, h^Q.— Sabal glabra, 

 Sargent, Silva North Am. X, 38 in nota. — Rhapis acaulis,'W\\iA. Spec. PI. 



IV, 1093, No. 2,— Smith in Rees Cyclop. No. 2.— Ait. Hort., Kew. ed. 2, 



V, 474. — Corypha minor, Jacq. Hort. Vindob. Ill, 8, t. 8. — Murr. Syst. Veg. 

 ed. 14, 984. — Lamark Encycl. II, 131. — Corypha pumila Walt. Flor. Carol, 

 119. — Chammrops glabra. Mill. Card. Diet. ed. 8, No. 2 (ex Ind. Kew.) — 

 Chamaerops acaulis, Mich. Flor. Amer. II, 207 (ex Ind. Kew.). 



Names. — Dwarf Sabal ; Swamp Palmetto ; Adanson's Sabal. 



Description. — A stemless palm with a subterranean rhizome, 

 producing a crown of few leaves. Petioles about as long as the 

 limb and sometime shorter, convex on the underside, broadly 

 channelled above near the base, slightly or not at all concave 

 towards the apex ; ligule subtriangular, often inequilateral obtuse- 

 or slightly acute ; rhachis short, narrowly winged on the margins 

 near the base, straight ; limb | orbicular or a little more than half- 

 orbicular, divided into 20-30 and sometimes 35 segments ; segments 

 acuminate, rigid, entire or very shortly bifid, separated from each 

 other in the central part of the limb for half their length or f of 

 the upper part, with a slender and fugaceous filament at the end of 

 the primary sinus ; central segments usually 1^-2^ feet long, some- 

 times even 3 feet, -f-lf inches broad at the height of the sinuses and 

 in well developed leaves even 2 inches. Spadix glabrous, erect,, 

 narrow, rigid, 2-5 feet long with 5-6, or also 10-12 branches, each 

 one arising from within a spathe ; axis of spadix ^-^ inch in diameter,, 

 subterete in the upper part and more or less compressed in the 

 lower, surrounded by several long tubular spathes without 

 branches ; upper spathes tubular in the lower part, acute or 

 acuminate in the upper ; branches born on a peduncular part which 

 is surrounded by its respective spathe ; the largest partial inflore- 

 scences (branches) near the base usually 4-6 inches long ; and 

 divided into 8-15 simple branchlets ; branchlets more or less 

 angular, filiform 3fi"Te i^<^^ i^ diameter and usually 2-3| 

 inches long ; sometimes the partial inflorescences are 1 inches 



