44 Memoirs Bcrnicc P. Bishop Miisciiiri. 



when _\(Hino- ovoi'l ; the fruiting;- ])erianth can harelv l)e termed pecheelhforni as it 

 appears somewhat depressed, with tlie calyx callous, and the corolla tube and 

 staminal ring spreading. 



10. PRITCHARDIA MACROCARPA Linden in Revue Hort. 187O, 375 (name 

 Duly) and 1878, 186; Andre in Illustr. Ihirt. i87() 105: t. 352 et 1881, 32; 

 Belgique Hort. 1883, 134. Pritchardia Martii (mm 11. W'endl. ) Ilillehr. M. 

 Haw. Isl. 490 (in jjart ) ; Becc. in Webbia IV. 223, 1. 14. 



(Plates XII, ./.B; XXI, ;•) 



Dcscriptio)i. — A rather low palm with a somewhat bottle-shaped stem and 

 large green leaves. The leaf blade measvu^es 9-10-1.15 ni. from the ligula to the 

 apex along the central line, is cut to below the middle, at the sides, and to its 

 upper third part in the center, into numerous segments, which are nearly flat 

 (not nmcli folded) and deeply parted into two very finely acuminate, somewhat 

 drooping points ; are green on both surfaces, but dotted underneath, rather closely, 

 with very minute, orbicular, or elliptical, light colored, not fringed lepidia; 

 transverse veinlets sharp, very slender and extremely approximate: the central, 

 largest, segments are 4.5-5 cm. broad at their disiunction places. I'etiole about 

 as long or even longer than the blade, about 3 cm. broad at apex, glabrous above, 

 more or less permanently woolly tomentose underneath, tlie tomentum extending 

 to the base of the blade, especially on the dorsum of the costae. Ligula short, 

 crescent like, shortly apiculate. Spadiccs elongate, as long as or longer than the 

 petioles, composed of 2-3 partial inflorescences or distinct panicles, each of which 

 is carried on a long peduncular ])art. The fruiting spadix is arched-nodding. 

 Spathes more or less furnished with silverv fugaceous paleae. Panicles twice 

 looselv branched in their lower part, simply branched above; floriferous branch- 

 lets glabrous, 10-12 cm. long or less, 2 mm. through at the base, somewhat angular 

 (drv) and strongly sinuous between the sjiirally alternate flowers; everv flower 

 is fiu"nished with a long setaceous, deciduous bracteole. Floivcrs (unopened) 

 Q-ii mm. long, 4 mm. through, somewhat acuminate, subtrigonous, and often 

 slightly asymmetrical; calyx campanulate, distinctly narrowed to the base, con- 

 spicuously striately veined (dry), the veins converging to 3 rather acute teeth; 

 corolla usually somew^hat more than twice as long as the calyx, its segments lanceo- 

 late acuminate and strongly striately veined; staminal ring slightlv protruding 

 above the calvx; filaments spreading, subulate from a broad base; anthers linear- 

 sagitate, blunt; ovary turbinate, sculptured above and narrowed into a trigonous, 

 sulcate, thickish stvle;^ stigma punctiform. Pniit very regularly obovate, rounded 

 above and centricallv apiculate, tipped by the small remains of the abortive carpels, 

 narrowed from about the middle to a rather acute base, 4-4.5 cm. long. 3-3.5 cm. 

 through, of a dull brown color in the drv state; whole drv jX'ricarp 4-4.5 www. 

 thick; mesocarp grumous and permeated by few, very fine, longitudinal fillers, 

 especiallv in its inner part; endocarp woody, t mm. thick all around but with a 

 thicker broadlv obconical base; the endocarpal ca\-itv i^olisbcd ;ind \\hite. .'^ccd 

 globose-ovate, about 2.5 cm. through, exactlv erect; the hilum basal, orbicular, 

 15 mm. in diam. Enibrvo places a little above the base. Pi-iiitina; perianth rela- 

 tivelv small, and depressedlv peditelliform, 4 mm. broad and 3 mm. 



