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palea, scattered over its surface; bracts at the base of the pulvini fiHform, about 

 6 mm. long. Flowers (unopened) 8 mm. long; calyx short cup-shaped, sub- 

 truncate at the apex, the minute teeth bluntly acute, 4 mip high, 3 mm. through 

 at the base, slightly wider at the mouth, dull and inconspicuously striate; petals 

 linear-oblong acute, 6 to 7 mm. long, of even width throughout, 1.5 mm., apex 

 acute, somewhat striate, especially near the base ; staminal ring not or only 

 slightly protruding; filaments short and broad; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 

 turbinate, sculptured above and terminating more or less abruptly into a slender 

 trigonal style 2.5 mm. long; stigmas minute, punctiform. Fruit ovoid to sub- 

 globose when mature and rounded at both ends, 4 to 4.5 cm. long, 3.2 to 3.5 cm. 

 in diameter, slightl}' asymmetrical at the base ; whole pericarp 5 to 6 mm. in diam- 

 eter ; mesocarp grumose and transversed by branching coai'se fibres ; endocarp 

 hard, woody, light-colored; diameter of seed cavity 22 mm. Seed ovoid acute 

 at the apex, rounded at the base; hilum trigonal in outline; embryo situated 

 immediately above the margin of the raphe. 



Habitat. — Mauij western portion in the Honokohau Drainage Basin at the 

 foot of Mauna Eke, elevation over 3000 feet, on a small plateau immediately under 

 Mauna Eke, which is only a few hundred or one thousand feet higher. The palm 

 was observed and photographed by the writer, August, 1918, when in company 

 with ]\Irs. H. P. Penhallow, and T. Hashimoto. No specimens were collected 

 owing to the fact that the palm was without flowers and fruits. The type No. 

 472 M. is in the B. P. Bishop Museum and was collected by C. N. Forbes, to 

 whom the writer is indebted for the loan of material, and for duplicate specimen.s 

 which have been deposited in the College of Hawaii Herbarium. 



Observations. — A palm of the stature of Pritchardii Gandichandii and evi- 

 dently related to that species; the fruits are not exactly spherical, and smaller; 

 the flowering panicle is also much smaller, the branchlets shorter, with large, con- 

 spicuous, orbicular pulvini with long bracts at their bases; the flowers are 

 closer set, especially near the apex. The calyx is faintly striate, of nearly equal 

 width and subtruncate. A distinguishing feature is found in the spathes which 

 are densely covered throughout the outer surface with a reddish brown, persistent 

 but detachable wool. The lepidia on the undersurface of the leaves are apparently 

 identical with those found on Pritchardia Gaiidichaudii. 



15. PRITCHARDIA LOWREYANA Rock in lit. 



(Plates X, A; XX, .4) 



Mediocris, caudice 2 ct ultra in. longo. Folia iitrinqitc vircntia, siibtiis crebrc microlcpi- 

 diis iiiinutis pallidis punctifonnibiis z'cl brcviter lincaribus iion fiinbriatis pracstita. scguicntis 

 ri'^idis. Spadi.v ultraiiictralis, bipartitus. paiiicniis diiplicafo rainosis, ratmdis glabris. Flores 

 8-g in III. longi, cal\cc cainpanulato basi attcnnato acute veiioso. Fnictns in geiicrc ina.viiiius, 

 ciatia, conice tcrminatns acutiis 6 cm. loiigus 4 cm. in medio crassns, basi pauUo attcnuatiis. 

 ibiqne rotundatns scininc ovato. supcrnc conico. Perianthium fnictt fermn dcprcssnm. 



Description. — A somewhat larger plant than Pr. Gandichandii. and equally 

 endowed with robust rigid leaves; the trunk 2 m. long or more. Leaf blade of a 



