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c* Leaf -blade spotted beneath with punctifurui, or else very narrowly 

 linear, rusty lepidia. Floriferous branchlets slender bearing nearly 

 regularly bifarious flowers; calvx canipanulate, fleshly-coriaceous, 

 conspicuously veined. Fruit si)herical, 2 cm. in diameter. Fruiting 

 perianth nearly explanate (not pedicelliform ) 



8. Pritchardia lanaiensts Becc. etRock. — Lanai(llawaiian Islands j. 

 c/ Small. Leaf-blade quite glabrous, yet dotted l)eneath with small, 



orbicular, not fringed lepidia. Floriferous branchlets slender. Un- 

 opened flowers acuminate; calyx canipanulate, fleshy-coraceous, sharply 

 veined. Fruit perhaps smaller than that of the other species of the 

 group, ovoid when young. Fruiting perianth somewhat depressed, 

 with the callous remains of the corolla tube spreading 



9. Pritchardia glabrata Becc. et Rock — ^laui (Hawaiian Islands). 



a." Fruit relatively large, 3 cm. or more long. 



b. Leaf-blade green and dotted beneath with very minute, urbicular or 

 elliptical, pale, not fringed lepidia. Fruiting perianth clepressedly pedi- 

 celliform, with the remains of the corolla tube and saminal ring incon- 

 spicuous. Fruit obovate, narrowed to the base, 4 to 4.5 cm. long, 3 to 



3.5 cm. in diameter. Short stemmed 



10. Pritchardia macrocarpa Linden — Oahu (Hawaiian Islands). 



b.^ Leaf-blade large, dark green on both sides, dotted beneath rather 

 closely with elliptical, slightly fringed, pale lepidia. Spadix 2.5 m. long, 

 twice branching. Fruit 3 cm. long, 2 cm. thick, pear-shaped. Tall stemmed 

 . . . II. Pritchardia kaai.ak Rock — Oahu (Hawaiian Islands). 



b.' Leaf-blade clothed beneath with an appressed tomentum composed of 

 irregular, conspicuously fringed, confluent lepidia. Fruit not thor- 

 oughly mature(?), regularly elliptical, narrowed at both ends, but espe- 

 cially above, and pointed, about 4 cm. long, and 28 mm. in diameter. 

 Fruiting perianth with a depressed, callous, shortly i)edicelliforni base, 

 and the remains of the corolla tube and staminal ring split into several 

 conspicuous pieces and spreading 12. Pritch- 

 ardia AL\RTii (Gaud.) H. \\"endl. — Oahu (Hawaiian Islands). 



b.^ Leaf-blade furnished beneath with rather closely ])ut not confluent, 

 relatively large, scale-like, silvery, elongate, slightly fringed lepidia. 



Fruit regularly spherical. A short stemmed palm 



13. Pritchardia Gaudiciiaudii H. AA'endl. — Molokai (Hawaiian Is.) 



b.* Leaf-blade dotted beneath with elliptical, scale-like subentire yellowish 

 lepidia. Spathes densely covered outside with a detachable brown wool. 

 Flowers small, calyx subtruncate. Fruit o\-oid to subgiobose 4 to 4.^ cm. 



long, T,.2 to 3.5 cm. thick 



. . 14. Pritchardia Forbesiana Rock — Maui (Hawaiian Islands). 



