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It represents a characteristic specimen of Sabal Adansoni, 

 Guers. 



The petioles channelled towards the ^base, are about as long 

 as the leaf-blade. The almost triangular ligule is distinctly visible 

 on one of the left-hand leaves. Some of the segments are entire, 

 but most of them are very shortly bifid. From between the leaves 

 there rises a long spadix with about a dozen branches. In the 

 upper part the flowers have just opened. The specimen is growing 

 in the Eoyal Botanic Gardens of Peradeniya. 



SABAL PALMETTO, Lodd. ex Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. VII, pt. 2, 

 1487, No. 5,— Mart. Hist. Nat. Ill, 247.— Dietrich Syn. II, 1201.— Kunth, 

 EnuML. in, 247.— Spach. Hist. Veg. XII, 107.— Chapman, Fl. South Unit. 

 St. ed. 2a, 438.— Curtis, Rep. Geolog. Surv. N. Car. (1860), III, 64.— 

 Sargent, For. Tr. N. Am. 10th Cens. U. S, IX, 217.— Nash in Bull. Torrey 

 Bot. Club, XXIII, 99. — Beccari, Webbia, II, 32. — Sabal umbraculifera, Mart. 

 Hist. Nat. Palm. Ill, 245, t. 130, et tab. morph. T, f . 5 ; t. Y, f . 5, 6, 7 ; t. 

 Z I (excl. syn. Glazeb. et locaP.). — Griseb. Fl. West. Ind. Isl. 514. — Inodes 

 palmetto, O. F. Cook in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 1901, 532. — Corypha umbra- 

 culifera, Jacq. Fragm. Bot. (1809) 7, No. 47. — Corypha palmetto, Walter, Fl, 

 Carol. 119 (1788). — Corypha glabra, Mill, ex Salomon, Palmen, 150. — 



i. Beccari gives the following' reasons for his identifying Sabal umbraculifera, 

 Mart, with Sabal pahnetto, Lodd. : — • 



" I have referred to S. pahnetto the species of Martius S. umbraculifera, which 

 this author founded on Corypha umbraculifera, Jacq. (non Linn.). Martius writes 

 with reference to this palm that it was brought by Jacquin from his journey in 

 America*knd that it flowered in the Garden of Schoenbrunn. Jacquin, however, 

 affirms that his C. umbraculifera came from Holland. Apart from this contra- 

 diction it is pretty sure that the description as well as the drawings of S. umbra- 

 culifera published by Martius were taken from the specimen which flowered at 

 Schoenbrunn. Of this specimen I have seen a part of the spadix in the herba- 

 rium of Berlin, corresponding in everything and in the minutest details of the 

 flower with wild specimens of S. palmetto. Though Martius wrote that his S. 

 umbraculifera grows in Cuba and Haiti, this statement must be considered as 

 erroneous, because it was probably founded on the supposition that the palm 

 described was brought from those regions by Jacquin. The specific name of 

 Palmetto, Lodd. as recognized in Roem. et Schult. is certainly older than that of 

 umbraculifera' Though we are not sure as to the exact date of the publication of 

 that part of Martius' work in which that name occurs for the first time, Martiua 

 himself mentions on p. 247 S. Palmetto as one of those species of which he is not 

 able to say exactly in which point they differ from bis S. umbraculifera.''' 



