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b.' Leaf-blade green on both surfaces, dotted beneath with minute, puncti- 

 form, not fringed lepidia. Fruit large regularly ovoid, rounded at the 

 base and conically pointed, 6 cm. long, 4 cm. through. A short stemmed 

 palm 



15. Pritchardia Lowreyana Rock — Molokai (Hawaiian Islands). 

 b.^ A smaller plant than the type, fruits smaller 4.5 to 5 cm. long, nearly 



3 cm. through, pointed at both ends 



Pr. Lowreyana var. turbinata Rock — Molokai (Hawaiian Islands). 

 bJ Leaf-blade darker green beneath dotted with numerous narrow-elon- 

 gate opaque, sulphur-yellow, thick, non-fringed lepidia. Flowers large, 

 the calyx very short, petals excluded from the calyx. Fruit obovate, 

 4.5 cm. long, 3.2 cm. in diameter 



16. Pritchardia brevicalyx Becc. et Rock — Molokai (Hawaiian Is.) 

 b.^ Leaf-blade green and rather densely dotted beneath with small ellip- 

 tical lepidia, the latter having hyaline fringed margins. Flowers 12 to 

 13 mm. long. Fruit globose-oblong, somewhat asymmetrical at the base, 

 3~3-5 cm. long. 2.5 to 3 cm. through. A tall palm 



17. Pritchardia Beccariana Rock — Hawaii (Hawaiian Islands). 



&.° A smaller plant than the type. Flowers slightly smaller 



Pr. Beccariana var. Giffardiana Becc. Hawaii 



A.^ Floriferous branchlets thinly but permanently, rusty-tomentose. Leaf- 

 blade subaureous tomentose beneath. 

 a. Fruit large obpyriform, 5 cm. long, 3 cm. in diameter. Panicle large 



spreading with subhorizontal thick branches 



. . . 18. Pritchardia Rockiana Becc. — Oahu (Hawaiian Islands), 

 a.' Fruit small obovoid, 2 cm. long, 16 mm. in diameter. Panicles with 



erect, simple, slender branches 



. . . 19. Pritchardia Hardyi Rock — Kauai (Hawaiian Islands). 

 A.^ Floriferous branchlets densely and permanently villose. 



a. Fruits small, globose 22 mm. long, 20 mm. in diameter. Spadix short, 

 twice-branched, panicle 12 cm. Leaf-blade dotted beneath with small, 



elongate, entire, hyaline lepidia , . . . 



. 20. Pritchardia Munroi Rock — Molokai (Hawaiian Islands) 

 a.' Fruits larger, 3.5 to 4.5 to 5.5 cm. long. 

 b. Calyx hairy-subtomentose. 



c. Leaf-blade subaureous-tomentose beneath. Unopened flowers 12 tp 

 14 mm. long. Fruit large, slightly irregularly globose, a little longer 



than broad (4.5 cm. long, and nearly 4 cm. in diameter) 



21. Pritchardia arecina Becc. — Maui (Hawaiian Islands), 

 c' Leaf-blade green beneath but with few scattered, long-elliptical, 

 hyaline lepidia. Fruit 5.5 cm. long, 4 cm. in diameter, obovoid, pan- 

 icles with thick, horizontal, woolly branches 



