66 Mcjiioirs Bcniicc P. Bishop Museum. 



3000 feet below ]\Iana between Honokaa and Paauhau. The forest in this region 

 has been practically destroyed; only a few individuals have survived. Now they 

 are lone sentinels in open meadow land. It was discovered on ^larch 17, 1920. 

 The type is Rock Xo. 17348 in the College of Hawaii Herbarium. 



Obscn'ofious. — A species closely related to Pi-itchardia criostachya Becc. 

 but differing from it mainly in the very large fruits which are nearly the size 

 of those of Pritchardia Loivrcyaua Rock, in the pubescent and ciliate flowers, in 

 the larger panicle with thick stout horizontal branches. The woolliness is exactly 

 as in Prifcliardia criostachya Becc. but of a fawn-color instead of salmon color. 

 The spadix branches into three panicles instead of being simple. The leaves are 

 not covered with nearly confluent lepidia, but the lower surface is dotted with 

 elongate, slightly fringed, distantly spaced, hyaline lepidia, giving it an almost 

 glabrous appearance. The fruits of thi? species are the second largest in size in 

 the genus. The densely packed short panicle resembles more that of Prifcliardia 

 lanigera. but the hairiness of the panicle is different. 



23. PRITCHARDIA VISCOSA Rock sp. n. 



(Plates X\', B: XXIII. .V) 



Description. — A medium-sized palm, trunk 6-8 m. high, 45 cm. in diameter. 

 Leaves large, of the size of those of Prifcliardia Hardyi. stiff'; leaf blade 100 cm. 

 long from the ligule to the apex, coriaceous, the lower surface densely tomentose 

 with appressed, greenish white, much fringed, contiguous lepidia; segments 60. 

 the central ones 5 cm. wide at their place of disjunction, parted about 24 cm. into 

 two, broad and bluntly acute points, glabrous above, pale green, the lower costae 

 covered with a dirty greyish wool; ligule crescent-shaped, strongly apiculate ; 

 petioles 88 cm. long, 3.5 cm. wide near the ligule, 1 1 cm. broad at the base, cov- 

 ered beneath, in the lower half, with a dark rufous cottony substance. Spadix 

 branching into three distinct panicles about i m. long, 4 cm. wide at the base; 

 main peduncles i cm. in diameter; spathes tubular at the base, glabrous inside, 

 and denselv covered with a coarse reddish brown tomentum, turning whitish 

 towards the apex of the sjiathes : panicle simple branched with erect terete branch- 

 lets, only the two lower branchlets again branching once or twice. Panicles about 

 15 cm. long from the branching base to the apex of the upper branchlets, coarsely 

 vellowish white villose: floriferous branchlets 10 to 11 cm. long, viscous, strongly 

 sinuate between the spirally alternate flowers, 2 to 3 mm. thick; bracteoles very 

 short, subulate. Flozvers '(unopened) thickly viscous, shining as if varnished, 

 10 to' IT mm. long; calyx angular, broadest at the base and solid, 5 mm. wide, 

 nearly 7 mm. long, urceolate, narrowing towards the apex, not at all striate, the 

 points short and sharp. Corolla shorter than the calyx, at least in the bud, the 

 segments linear-oblong, 7 to 8 mm. long, 3 mm. wide, acute at the apex, incon- 

 spicuously ribbed; staminal ring protruding slightly beyond the calyx; filaments 

 fihform, broader at the base; anthers attached at their lower third, elongate; 

 ovary subtruncate; stvle sulcate and viscous; stigmas punctiform. Fruit ellip- 

 soid-pear-shaped, large, nearly 4 cm. long, 2.5 cm. in diameter, rounded above, 

 but sharply apiculate bv the remains of the abortive carpels, thickest m the upper 

 third thence narrowing to a thickish base; pericarp 2.5 mm. thick, the basal part 



