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. 22. Pritchardia arecina Becc. — ]\Iaui (Hawaiian Islands). 



b.^ Calyx and corolla thickly viscous as if varnished. 



Leaf-blade denselv tomentose with a])pressed confluent fringed lepidia. 



Fruit clliptical-pyriforni, 4 cm. long, 2.5 cm. in diameter 



23. PRiTCiiAKniA \iscos.\ Rock — Kauai ( Hawaiian Islands'). 



b.' Calyx glabrous. 



c. Leaf-blade closely dotted beneath with small appressed. scale-like 

 orbicular or oblong lepidia. Petioles and spathes clothed with a 

 copious iloccose greyish, amianth-like more or less permanent tomen- 

 tum. Fruit apparently ovoid and rather large (not kudwn at perfect 



maturity) 



. 24. PRiTCiiARniA LAXiGERA Becc. — Hawaii ( Hawaiian Islands j. 



e.^ Leaf-blade softlv scaly-tomentose beneath. Peduncular part of the 



spadix and spathes clothed with a copious, soft rufous woolliness. 



Fruit ovoid-ellipsoidal or slightly obovoid, 3.5 to 4 cm. long ( including 



the pedicelliform perianth ) and 26 to 28 mm. in diameter 



. . 25. Pritchardia eriostaciiiva Becc. — Hawaii (Hawaiian Is.) 

 B. Floriferous branchlets clothed with a dense floccose detachable woolliness. 



a. Leaf-blade tomentose-subareous beneath. Ploriferous branchlets short 

 (2.5 cm. long) bearing rather distant, spirally alternate flowers. Fruit ellip- 

 tical-subfusiform, conical above and acute at the base, 2.5 to 3 cm. long, 



12 to 13 mm. in diameter 



. . . 26. Pritchardia kriopiiora Becc. — Kauai (Hawaiian Islands), 

 a.' Leaf-blade greyish or subaureous and softly tomentose beneath. Florif- 

 erous bran-chlcts 4 to 7 cm. long with spirally, rather closelv set flowers 

 Fruit small, o\oid-ellipsoidal or subobovoid, rounded abox-e and narrowed 

 to the base, 18 to 20 mm. long, 12 to 13 mm. in diameter 



. . . . 27. Pritchardia minor Becc. — Kauai (Hawaiian Islands) 

 Of the two following species onl\- the fruits and the young leaves of culti- 

 vated species are known. 



A Fruit oblong, 24 mm. long, 18 mm. in diameter. Seed 15 mm. long. 14 mm. 

 thick. Leaf-blade green on both surfaces, devoid of lepidia 



. . . . 28. Pritchardia A'ivi.stekeaxa H. Wendl. Paumotu Islands. 

 B. Fruit nearly si)herical, 20 mm. long, 18 mm. in diameter . Seed 14 mm. 



long, 13 mm. thick. Leaf-blade as in the preceding 



. . . . 29. Pritchardi.v pericularum H. W'endl. Paumotu Islands. 

 IT. Flowers fleshy — (Neogeous). 



A tall palm with a stem swollen and bottle-shaped in its lower part, and slender 



