Beccari and Rock — Prifcliardia. 29 



Detailed Description of Species. 



1. PRITCHARDIA PACIFICA Seem, et H. Wencll. in Bonpl. IX (1861) 260 

 and X (1862), pp. 197, 310, t. 15; Seem. Fl. Vit. 274, t. LXXIX and in Viti, 

 An Account, etc., 368; Kerchore, Les Palm. 331, t. XXVII; Rev. Hort. 1873, 

 329 — 1874, 65 — 1875, 35; Illustr. Hort. 1874, 27, t. 161 — 1881, 32; Belgiqtie 

 Hort. 1875, 62 — 1878, 114; Fl. des Serres et Jard. 1877, t. 2262; Becc. Malesia, 

 HI, 290, t. XXXVII, f. 13-15, and in Webbia, II (1907) 202, and IV (1913) 206, 

 and 210: Drake del Cast. 111. Fl. Ins. Pac. VII, 323; Blatter, Palms Brit. Ind. 

 in Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc, March 31, 1912, 358, pi. XXIX. 



Coryplia niidvaciilifcra (non Linn.) Forst. PI. escul. 49 et Prodr. 88 (in 

 part) ex Seem. 1. c. 



Washingtonia paciflca O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Plant. II (1891) yT,"/. 



Btiprifcliardia pacifica O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. Ill, 2 (1898) 323. 



(Plate XXIV, W) 



Description. — A fine rather large Palm. Stem 7-10 m. high, straight and 

 about 30 cm. in diam. Leaves glabrous, or nearly so in every part (at least when 

 fully developed) ; the blade one-third of a circle in outline, broadly cuneate at 

 the base, and with a large central entire part; the median segments relatively 

 short in the free part, about 30 cm. long and 4-4.5 cm. broad at the disjunction 

 places, cleft at apex, to the extent of about 10 cm. into two very acuminate non- 

 drooping points ; the dry blade has a tough structure, is concolorous and dull on 

 both surfaces ; the lower surface is completely devoid of lepidia ; transverse 

 veinlets very minute and approximate ; the dorsum of the costae is glabrous ; 

 petiole about as long as the blade (1-1.20 m. long), spreading-arched. Spadices 

 shorter than the petioles, whole about 50 cm. long, composed of an ovate, rather 

 dense, 20-25 cm. long panicle, carried upon an about as long or a little longer, 

 terete, pubescent, peduncular part; the latter as thick as a man's little finger; the 

 panicle is glabrous in every part, has the lower branches, 4-6-partite, and is simply 

 branched above; floriferous branchlets slender, rigid, terete, 8-10 cm. long, about 

 2 mm. through at the base. Spathes not much shorter than the whole spadix, 

 finely tomentose outside, tubular in their lower part, and dilated above, into a 

 lanceolate acuminate blade. Floivers spirally inserted around the branchlets, each 

 furnished with a very slender, capillarv, bracteole, lanceolate before expansion, 

 7.5-8 mm. long, 3.5 mm. through; calyx, cyathiform-campanulate, somewhat con- 

 tracted at the base (when dry), very obscurely veined, shortly 3-toothed; the 

 staminal ring at the time of the anthesis protrudes considerably above the calyx; 

 filaments subulate, spreading; anthers, sagittate-oblong slightly emarginate at 

 apex; segments of the corolla, elongate-triangular, blunt, truncate at the base, 

 finel}- striate outside ; ovary turbinate, truncate and deeply sculptured above ; style, 

 trigonous, sulcate; segments of the corolla elongate-triangular, blunt, truncate 

 at the base, finely striate outside. Fruit spherical, 11-12 mm. in diam., slightly 

 excentrically terminated by the rather conspicuous remains of the abortive carpels 

 and style; pericarp, 1.3 mm. thick. Seed sjihcrical, 7 mm. in diam., the surface 

 smooth, blackish. Fruiting perianth conspicuous, distinctly pedicelliform, terete, 

 4 mm. long, 3.5 mm. through. 



