72 Memoirs Dcniicc P. Bishop Miisciini. 



a rather large panicle, which is borne on an apparently short, pednncular part; 

 the spathes are. as usual, tubular in their lower portion, and expand above into 

 a lanceolate, very long, acuminate, rigid-chartaceous blade, and are very copiously 

 clothed with a very soft, rufous wooJ; the rachis of the spadix and all branches 

 of the panicle are also clothed with a similar wool, which, however, is partly 

 deciduous in age. The fructiferous panicle (in one specimen) is about 30 cm. 

 long, nearly twice branched in its lower part, and simply branched at apex only; 

 the lower primary branches divide in as many as 10-12 secondary branches, of 

 which the lowermost are again 2-3 partite; fructiferous branchlets 4-7 cm. long, 

 when denuded by age of their cottony clothing are 1.5 mm. through at the base, 

 terete, subtorulose and closely sinuous between the rather closely, spirally set 

 flower-pulvinuli. Plozvcrs apparently small, but none are available for dissection 

 in the specimens at hand. Fruit ovoid-ellipsoidal or obovoid, 10-20 mm. long, 

 12-13 mm. through, somewhat narrowed, usually slightly sigmoidally, to the base, 

 rounded above and apiculate, frequently obliquely, by the small remains of the 

 abortive carpels and style; whole pericarp about i mm. thick; mesocarp very 

 scanty, with a layer of rather broad fibers in its inner part; endocarp hard, 

 relatively thick and with a short and broad obconical, acute base. Seed regu- 

 larly ovate, rounded at both ends, 12 mm. long, 6 mm. broad. Fruiting perianth 

 shortly pedicelliform-cam])anulate, with the tube of the corolla and the staminal 

 ring spreading. 



Habitat. — The fruits upon which this species was based were collected in 

 March, 1909, by Professor Rock on Kauai in the swampy forest near Alakai, 

 back of Halemanu. Leafy specimens with fruits, quite similar to those that 

 represent the type, were collected again on Kauai, also by Rock, in October, 191 1, 

 in the forests of Kaholuamanu. 



Obserz'ations. — T have derived the description above from the specimens 

 collected at Kaholuamanu, Init in regard to its fruits I have not noticed any dif- 

 ference from the typical ones from Halemanu. However, Professor Rock 

 observes that the palm from Halemanu was cjuite 20-30 feet, (6-9 m.) in height, 

 with a slender stem of about 10 cm. in diameter, and that the palm from Kaholua- 

 manu had a shorter and thicker trunk, and the whole plant had not the slender 

 aspect of that from Halemanu. Pr. minor has, like Pr. eriopliora. the leaf blade 

 subaureous-tomentose underneath, and the similarly copious, soft woolly clothing, 

 on every part of the spadix ; it is distinguishable, however, by its larger and more 

 branched panicle, with longer and more robust terete-subtorulose, floriferous 

 branchlets, which have the flowers rather closely spirally arranged around them; 

 and by the small ovate or subovate fruit. The fruits of this species represented 

 in ^^'ebbia 1. c. fig. e, f, g, are about one-tenth smaller thavi natural size. Fig. c 

 represents the fruit of the type from Halemanu and figs, f, g from Kaholuamanu. 



28. PRITCHARDIA VUYLSTEKEANA H. Wendl. in Revue Hort. 1883, 329 

 f. 59 (young plants); Card. Chr. 1883 XIX. 693, f. 14; Becc. Malesia, HI. 291; 

 in Webbia H. (1907) 202 and IV. (191 3) 216. 



