62 Mem oils Bcrnicc P. Bishop IIIkscuiii. 



Habitat. — Kauai, on the Liluie side along the Pole Line Trail near Summit 

 Cam]i, T900 feet elevation, first observed by Mr. W. A\ Hardy of the U. S. 

 Hydrographic Survey: collected liy J. F. Rock, January 30, 1920; flowering and 

 fruiting tvpe No. 17296 in the College of Hawaii Herbarium. 



Obserz'atioiis. — A very handsome, and one of the tallest species, allied to 

 Pritchardia minor. It is easily distinguished from both Pr. criophora and Pr. 

 minor, in the much larger crown, in the long drooping spadix which branches into 

 three distinct panicles, and in the short non-detachable tomentum covering the 

 actual panicles, which are sim]ilc branched; the flowers are longer than in either 

 species, and the calyx is very inconspicuously striate and only at the very apex 

 near the teeth, besides being puberulous. The fruit is smaller than in either of 

 the other two described species from Kauai. Named for Mr. W- V. Hard}', who 

 called my attention to this species. 



20 PRITCHARDIA MUNROII Rock sp. n. 



(Plates XIV, A, B; XXI\\ U) 



Description. — A jialm about 4 to 5 ni. tall including the crown, trunk 

 gray, smooth and inconspicuously ringed ; about 20 cm. in diameter. Leaves 

 small, the blade measuring from ligule to apex 88 cm. in length, segments 70 in 

 number, 4 to 5 cm. wide at their disjunction places, deeply divided (35 to 40 cm.) 

 into long ver}- acuminate drooping points with long filaments between the seg- 

 ments, pale green and glabrous above, the lower surface with scattered small 

 elongate-elliptical, entire, hyaline Icpidia ; the lower costae on the imder surface 

 of the leaves densely covered with broad, long, many-nerved silky, pale fawn- 

 colored translucent paleae; ligule triangular, apiculate; petiole 85 cm. long, 2.5 to 

 3 cm. wide at the apex, 14 cm. broad at the base, thick coriaceous, with long fibers 

 along the margin densely covered beneath with a detachable, compact brown wool, 

 glabrous aboA-e except in the young state when it is sparingly covered with a 

 silvery white woolliness, as are also a few of the lower costae on the upper leaf 

 surface in young leaves. Spadi.r 52 cm. long including the 12-13 ^m. long 

 panicle (fruiting stage), branching into two separate panicles, lower portion flat- 

 compressed, about 4 to 4.5 cm. broad at the base, the peduncular part 8 mm. in 

 diameter; flowering panicles 10 to 11 cm. long, enveloped by five ovoid, acute 

 spathes, more than 12 cm. broad, 20 cm. long, the tubular portion twice as long 

 or longer, glabrous when old but with a grayish detachable scattered wool towards 

 the apex; flowering panicle 10 to 11 cm. long with numerous branchlets, simple 

 branched above, the lower ones dividing into six branchlets; branchlets 3 to 4.5 cm. 

 long when with flower, 6 cm. long when with fruit, erect or vermiformly twisted 

 and covered throughout with a dirty grayish brown tomentum, somewhat angular 

 and marked with conspicuously spirally alternate notches for the insertion of the 

 flowers, flozccj's (unopened) 7 mm. long, 3 mm. in diameter in their median 

 part; calyx glabrous, strongly striate, wider at the apex, narrowing towards the 

 base, the latter oblique; calycine teeth very short, bluntly acute and broadlv trian- 

 gular; corolla segments elongate oblong, striate, nearlv 5 mm. long, i to nearly 

 2 mm. broad and narrower at the base; staminal ring not protruding beyond the 



