50 Memoirs Bcrnicc P. Bishop Museum. 



13. PRITCHARDIA GAUDICHAUDII H. Wendl. in Bonpl. X. (1862) 199; 



Seeml Fl. \'it. 274; H. ]\Iann in Journ. of Bot. MI. (1869) 177; Becc. Malesia 

 III, 295 (excl. descript. of spadix and flowers) pi. XXXVIII. f. 11-12; in W'eb- 

 bia, II. 203 et IV. 208, 223; Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Isls. 450 (as to the plant from 

 Molokai only); Rock, Indig. Trees Haw. Isls. (1913) 100. 



Livistona ? Gaudicliaudii Mart. Hist. Xat. Palm. Ill, 242, 319. 

 Bupritchardia Gaudicliaudii O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. III. 2 (1898) 325 

 IVasliingtonia Gaudicliaudii O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. II. (1891) 737. 



(Plates VIII,. -^/.B; XX, 5) 



Description. — Somewhat ditterent in general habit from the other Pritch- 

 ardias. The trunk is rough and from 0.60 to 1.50 m. in height, broad at the 

 base, and attenuate towards the apex. Lcazrs relatively small and very robust, 

 the blade is of a relatively thick structure, nearly leathery, and measures 65-70 cm. 

 from the ligula to the apex, is entire to about the middle in its central part, and 

 cut into relatively not very numerous, broad and rather short segments which 

 divide into two long-acuminate stilt (not drooping) but at times slightly falcate 

 laciniae; the entire blade acquires, in the herbarium specimens, more than any 

 other species, a brown tawny color, deeper below than above; moreover the lower 

 surface is furnished with numerous, yet non-confluent, lepidia which leave good 

 portions of epidermis uncovered, and are scale-like, hyaline, unequal, at times 

 relatively large, lanceolate or elliptical and slightly fringed, especially at their 

 extremities; the central, largest, segments are 5.5-6 cm. broad, apiculate in the 

 centre. Petiole robust, shorter than the blade (55 cm. long and 4 cm. broad at 

 apex in one specimen). In young leaves, the petiole and the base of the blade, on 

 both surfaces, is ver}- densely clothed, more or less permanently, with a silvery 

 or amianth-like woolliness, which is persistent underneath on the mid-costae. 

 Spadix about i m. long, usually composed of a single panicle carried on a long 

 peduncular part; yet occasionally a second panicle is developed; spathes rigid, 

 chartaceous, at first-scaly paleaceous, later glabrous. The panicle is about 25 cm. 

 long, loosely twice branched in its lower part, and simply branched above, very 

 fugaceously and slightly covered, in youth, with a fulvous soft wool, otherwise 

 glabrous; floriferous branchlets 8-10 cm. long, somewhat angular, when dry, and 

 strongly sinuous between the spirally alternate flow'ers, 2-3 mm. thick and sub- 

 terete at the fruiting stage ; every flower is furnished with a capillary, deciduous, 

 bracteole. Flon'crs (unopened) 8-9 mm. long, 3 mm. through, narrowed a little 

 above, shortly apiculate, and often slightly asymmetrical ; calyx urceolate-cam- 

 panulate, somewhat narrowed to the base, marked by conspicuous veins convergent 

 to the short, sharp pointed teeth; corolla somewhat more than twice as long as 

 the calyx, its segments broadly, irregularly linear, subhastate, or little narrowed 

 above, obtusely apiculate, strongly striately-veined; staminal ring about level 

 with the mouth of the calyx; filaments very slender, subulate; anthers linear- 

 sagittate, blunt; ovary turbinate, sculptured above, and narrowed into a thickish 

 trigonous, sulcate style; stigmas punctiform. Fruit f|uite symmetrical, spherical, 

 38-43 mm. in diam., centrically terminated by the very minute remains of the 

 stvle and abortive carpels; the surface smooth and nearly shiny, not or verv 

 faintly marked by longitudinal ridges; of a hazelnut brown color in herbarium 



