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material was from which Hillebrand derived the descriptions of Pr. Martii and 

 Pr. Gaudichaiidii. 



Before I had seen the leaves, I believed Pr. iiiacrocarpa to correspond to 

 P. Martii, and under this name the fruit of P. iiiacrocarpa was figured in Webbia 

 (IV p. 224 f. 14) ; but now that Prof. Rock has re-discovered the true Pr. Martii, 

 as well as Pr. Gandichaudii, there is no more uncertainty about these two palms, 

 and Pr. macrocarpa proves to be a species distinct from both, somewhat allied, 

 however, to Pr. Martii. Pr. macrocarpa is well characterized by its small stature, 

 and relatively stout stem; by its large leaves having long petioles and the blade 

 apparently glabrous and green underneath, but dotted, rather closely with 

 appressed, small, orbicular or elliptical, light colored not fringed, microlepidia; 

 it is distinguishable also by the large regularly obovoid fruit, narrowed to the 

 base and minutelv apiculate, and by the fruiting perianth depressedly pedicelli- 

 form. and having the remains of the corolla and staminal tube scarcely visible, 

 not large and split into several spreading pieces as in Pr. Martii. 



11. PRITCHARDIA KAALAE Rock, sp. n. 



(Plates VI,. 'i,/?.- XXI, //) 



Description. — A palm about 10 metres high, the trunk gray with longitudi- 

 nal furrows and pronounced rings. Leaves very large, dark green on both sides; 

 blade 115 cm. from ligule to apex along the central line, cut into more than 60 

 segments which are nearly flat, parted for only about 15 to 20 cm. into acuminate 

 drooping points, green on both surfaces, but rather closely dotted beneath with 

 elliptical, slightly-fringed, light-colored lepidia ; transverse veinlets very distinct 

 beneath, the lower costae with fawn-colored woolliness towards the base of 

 the blade; petiole in young leaves nearly 175 cm. long, little shorter in mature 

 leaves, 3.5 to 4 cm. wide at the ligule, 14 cm. wide at the base, covered beneath 

 with a rufous-brown detachable wool, the lower margins fringed with fibers, ligule 

 somewhat triangular, apiculate. Sfadi.v branching into two distinct panicles, 2.50 

 m. long including the panicle, long drooping; the spathes green, sparingly fur- 

 nished with silvery paleae; panicles many branched, the upper branchlets simple, 

 the four lower lateral branchlets again branching; floriferous branchlets glabrous, 

 9 to 12 cm. long, somewhat angular, not distinctly sinuous; bractlets 5 to 6 mm. 

 long, thin, filiform. Flowers small, 8 to 9 mm. long; calyx campanulate, widest 

 at the apex, narrowed at the base, strongly striate, the teeth short and acute; 

 staminal ring protruding, the filaments subulate from a broader base; anthers 

 linear; corolla segments oblong, margins not parallel, strongly ribbed outside, 

 bluntly acute; ovary very small, sub-turbinate, glabrous, style short sulcate; stig- 

 mas punctiform. Fruit (not perfectly mature) ellipsoidal-ovoid, somewhat asym- 

 metrical at the base, rounded at both ends but narrower at the base, black when 

 ripe, with one or two lateral ridges when dry, 3 cm. long, 2 cm. wide; whole dry 

 pericarp 2 mm. thick; endocarp brittle, less than one-half mm. thick, seed ovoid to 

 subglobose; the hilum large, ovate, 12 mm. long, 8 mm. wide. Embryo a little 

 above the base. FniitiuQ; perianth small, only 2 mm. Iiigh and 2.5 mm. broad, 

 remains of staminal ring spreading. 



