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which have the bases of the segments more open than in most of 
the pinnate-leaved palms. 
Cyclospathe gen. nov. 
A small palm obviously allied to Pseudophoentx Wendland, but 
distinct in having the trunk short and with short internodes, the 
inflorescence infrafoliar, and the calyx deeply lobed; also in the 
possession of a curious, short, collar-like spathe completely en- 
circling the main axis of the spadix near the middle of its base. 
The leaf segments are strongly folded together like those of 
Pseudophoenix, but the lower margin is not incurved to bring it 
against the upper as in Psewdophoenix. The “ dark conspicuous 
gland-like excrescences ” described by Sargent (Silva, 10: 33) on 
the sides of the rachis at the base of the pinnae are evidently much 
smaller in Cyclospathe, and are mostly confined to the angle of in- 
sertion of the upper margin of the pinnae. 
Further differences between Cyclospathe and Pseudophoenix are 
discussed in connection with the following description of the type 
species : 
Cyclospathe Northropi sp. nov. 
Trunk less than 3 m. in height, about 22 cm. in diameter, 
slightly bulging in the center; leaf-scars distinct, about 2.5 cm. 
apart; leaf-bases very glaucous, also the rachis ; rachis distally 
subtriangular in section, the leaf-bases completely crossing the lat- 
eral faces and even prominent above the narrow crest; upper and 
lower margins of the pinnae inserted on the same plane at the lat- 
eral angles of the rachis ; segments are not so strongly plicate as 
іп Pseudophoenix, the two edges meeting the rachis about 5 mm. 
_ apart, and not thickened and incurved as in the heavier and larger 
leaf of Pseudophoenix. ; 
The specimens studied have about 20 of the apical pinnae on 
each side; lower pinnae about 47 cm. long by 23 mm. broad ; 
apical pinnae gradually reduced to 27 cm. by 10 mm. and smaller, 
the terminal divisions not completely separated. The distal pinnae 
are farther apart than the proximal. 
In Pseudophoenix pinnae 43 cm. long һауе а width of 33 mm. 
The texture of the pinnae of Cyc/ospathe is also much thinner апа 
more fragile than in Psewdophoentx, and the decurved and thick- 
