Beccari and Rock — Pritchardia. 67 



solid; mesocarp permeated by many fibers; endocarp very thin, yellowish-white, 

 shining. Seed ovoid, acute at the apex, the hilum oblong. Fruiting perianth, 

 constricted at the apex; staminal ring and filaments persistent, spreading, 7 mm. 

 broad. 



Habitat. — Kauai, one mile north of Summit Camp and two miles east of 

 Pole Line Trail, elevation 2000 feet, in Kalihiwai Valley, windward side of the 

 island; flowering and fruiting, January, 1920. Rock No. 17295; type in the 

 College of Hawaii Herbarium. 



Observations. — A very distinct species, and the only one with a decidedly 

 viscous inflorescence, calyx, and corolla. In the branching of the panicle it resem- 

 bles Pritchardia Hardyi; but the spadix is much shorter. The flowers resemble 

 those of Pr. Rockiana, while the fruits are quite singular, being ellipsoid-pear- 

 shaped. The other three species now known from Kauai are closely related, 

 while the present one, the fourth so far known from that island, stands quite by 

 itself; it is one of the most interesting species so far found in these islands, 

 although it is related to Pr. Rockiana. 



2A. PRITCHARDIA LANIGERABecc. Malesia, III, 298, t. XXXVIII. f. 1-3; 



and in Webbia II. (1907) 203; and IV (1913), 209, 231; Rock, Indig. Trees Haw. 



Isls. (1913) 103, PI- 32- 



Pr. Gaudichaudii (non H. Wendl.) Hillebr. Fl. Haw. Isls. (1888) 450 



(in part). 



Washingtonia lanigera O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. II (1891) 737. 

 Bupritchardia lanigera O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. III. 2 (iP""' 





(Plate XVII, A) 



Description. — It is a rather robust palm with a very straight trunk, about 

 5 m. high and from 30 to 50 cm. in diameter, and with a beautiful head of large 

 leaves. The leaf blade measures about i m. from the ligula to the apex, is of a 

 thickish and tough structure; its lower surface looks glabrous, but, in fact, is 

 closely dotted with small, appressed, orbicular or oblong, scale-like lepidia; the 

 central segments are about 6 cm. broad at their disjunction places, and are parted, 

 not very deeply into two gradually, finely acuminate, rigid (non-drooping) points. 

 Petioles about'as long as the blades, covered (apparently on both surfaces) with a 

 copious floccose, grayish, amianth-like, indumentum, which extends to the base 

 of the blades. Spadices apparenlty shorter than the petioles (in one specimen, 

 perhaps not entire, about 40 cm. long) composed of a small panicle borne on a 

 rather short, outwardly curved, peduncular part; the spathes are covered with the 

 same kind of tomentum (more or less deciduous by age) as the petioles, are 

 tubular in their basal part, and expand above into a lanceolate boat-shaped, 

 acuminate, rigid chartaceous blade, which envelopes completely the panicle. The 

 nowering panicle is ovate-thyrsoid, 10-12 cm. long, slightly shorter than the 

 spathes dense, composed of a few 2-3 partite branches in its lower part, and of 

 simple 'floriferous branchlets elsewhere; the latter are 4-8 cm. long, relatively 



