Beccari and Rock — Pritchardia. y}^ 



Washingfonia Viiylsfekcana O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. II. (1891) yTfy. 

 Eupntchardia Vuyhtckcana O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. III. (1898) 323. 



Description. — Fniit oblong, 24 mm. long-, and 20 mm. through, terminated 

 by the slightly excentrical remains of the abortive carpels. Seed 14X 15 mm. The 

 leaf from a plant cultivated at Herrenhausen has the blade one-third of a circle 

 in outline, parted into about 50 segments ; it is cjuite glabrous, and devoid of 

 lepidia on the lower surface; the lower costae are also glabrovis. 



Habitat. — The nearly inaccessible islands of the Dangerous or Low Archi- 

 pelago (Paumotu or Tuamotu) in oriental Polynesia. The first mention of this 

 palm appeared in a notice of the horticultural establishment of Ch. Vuylsteke at 

 Loochristi, near Ghent in Belgium. 



It is cultivated in the hot houses of some gardens. 



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29. PRITCHARDIA PERICULARUM H. Wendl. in Horto Vuylstek; Revue 

 Hort. 1883, 206; Becc. Malesia III. 292; in Webbia II. (1907) 202 and IV 

 (1913) 217. 



Washingtonia pcriculannn O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. II. (1891) /2y. 

 BiipritcJiacdia pcrictilanuii O. Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. III. (1898) 323. 



Description. — Fruit nearly spherical, a little smaller than that of Pr. J'n\ls- 

 tekeana, 20 mm. long, and 18 mm. through, terminated by the excentrical remains 

 of the sterile carpels and style Seed 12x13 i^^i''''- Tlie leaves from plants culti- 

 vated at Herrenhausen are similar to those of Pr. Jliylstekcana, are quite glab- 

 rous, and devoid of lepidia on the lower surface. 



Habitat. — \\'ith the preceding in the Dangerous Archipelago. 



30. PRITCHARDIA WRIGHTII Becc. in Webbia, II. (1907) 203; 

 in Pomona Journ. of Econ. Botany, III. Feb. 1913, 398, f. 160, 161, 162. 



Colpothrinax Wrightii Gris. et Wendl. in PI. Cub. Wright No. 3964; 

 H. Wendl. in Kerch. Palm, 241 ; Sauv. Fl. Cub. No. 2382. 



(Plate I, B: fig. i, I a, b, c.) 



Description. — A very cvirious palm with a trunk 10-12 m. high, smaller, 

 and bottle shaped in its lower part or toward the middle, and very slender and 

 cylindrical above. Leaves large; blade suborbicular in outline, broadly cuneate 

 at the base, 1.50 m. long from the ligula to the apex, parted regularly nearly to 

 the middle into very numerous segments (about 80 in one specimen), glossy 

 above, finely and very appressedly tomentose underneath; the lower main costae 

 equally tomentose; the tomentum is easily removable, and the surface appears then 

 distinctly dotted with glandiform bodies, which, apparently, are the bases of the 

 trichomes of which the tomentum is made; secondary nerves numerous; trans- 

 verse veinlets obsolete; the lateral segments are deeply bifid, and the divisions 

 gradually acuminate; the central segments are 3-3.5 cm. broad at their disjunc- 

 tion places, and biparted at apex to the extent of 3-5 cm. only. Petioles about 

 as long as the blade, robust, 4 cm. broad at apex; ligula, thinly coriaceous, brittle, 



