90 Етовл ок New PROVIDENCE AND ANDROS 
not available for West Indian palms. Moreover, it is not known 
that specimens exist from which better identifications could be 
made. 
SABALACEAE 
Thrinax Bahamensis sp. nov. 
Leaves and inflorescence resembling Coccothrinax jucunda Sar- 
gent (Bot. Gaz. 27: 80. 1899), but apparently to be associated 
rather with Thrinax Keyensis Sargent (Bot. Gaz. 27: 86. 1899) in 
view of the short pedicels, distinctly lobed calyx, broad filaments 
and short styles. 
Petiole 48 cm. long, 15 mm. broad at base, narrowed to 12 
mm. near the apex; equally convex on both sides, becoming flat 
above toward: Ше Базе; segments of middle of leaf about 53 cm. 
long, and 32 mm. broad; lateral segments reduced to 30 cm. by | 
5 mm.; texture thin and brittle; venation also closely similar to | 
C. jucunda, but the surface distinctly less pubescent, or the pubes- 
cence much more fugacious, as in other species of true Thrinax : 
inflorescence with secondary branches slender, subtended by 
narrow scarious bracts, 8 to 10 mm. in length; bracts with a 
distinct midvein and a pencil of hairs at the tip; pedicels of 
mm. in length, with 6 distinct subtriangular 
lobes: filaments triangular, often united at base to form a com- 
plete cup: stigma truncate or somewhat funnelform, about 0.5 mm. 
in length. 
This species is evidently much smaller in all its parts than 
Thrinax Keyensis. Тһе comparison of its leaves with those of 
Coccothrinax jucunda is based оп А. H. Curtis's no. 262 from Big 
Pine Key, which seems to correspond well with Sargent's descrip- 
tion, though there is the possibility that the leaf and fruit were not 
taken from the same tree. 
Locality. — Big Cabbage Creek, Andros Island, June. An- 
other specimen (257) from Freshwater Pond, Hog Island, N. P., 
February, consists of a leaf and an old inflorescence, the latter 
with the spathes still coated in patches with dense white pubes- 
сепсе. 
ТЕ Бал en etaed Werne oe Torrey Club, 28: 
smaller, with the petioles less ева ; ы ps ese boys d 
on һе шшр UNES and more distinctly ribbed 
` apex. The transverse or oblique vein- 
