Palmae. 



Santa Barbara, California, by the Government Nurseryman of the Board of 

 Agriculture and Forestry, without the knowledge of the writer. Dr. Francesei 

 forwarded the seeds to 0. Beccari, on which the above species was based; from 

 where and whom Beccari received the description of flowers, leaves, etc., is a 

 mystery, as no one but the writer had ever collected that species and only the 

 seeds at that. The description as given in Webbia III, pi. 137, is therefore 

 apocryphal and entirely unreliable. 



Mr. Gerrit P. Wilder, while on an excursion to Halemanu, Kauai, was re- 

 quested by the writer again to collect Pr. minor, as flowers, leaves, etc., were 

 wanted. On May 11th Mr. Wilder sent a box of specimens of a palm, which 

 was, however, not the desired Pr. minor, but a new species named since by Beccari 

 Pr. eriophora sp. nov. The Pr. minor was again collected by the writer on 

 Kauai in the forests of Kaholuamano in October, 1911, diflPering, however, some- 

 what from the one found at Halemanu. The palm from the latter place has a 

 slender stem and is quite tall, 20-30 feet in height, with a trunk of about 10 cm 

 in diameter ; the leaves are small and pubescent or woolly underneath ; the fruits 

 are of the size of a small, black, ripe olive, and are covered with a black glossy 

 pericarp. The specimens from Kaholuamano agree well with the writer's notes 

 of the palm from Halemanu, with the exception of its general appearance; the 

 trunk is shorter and thicker and the whole palm has not the slender aspect of that 

 from Halemanu. No type exists of Pr. minor, except the seeds now in Beccari 's 

 possession. 



Pritchardia eriophora Becc. 



Loulu. 



PRITCHARDIA ERIOPHORA Becc. in Webbia IV. p. ? 



A tall slender palm 12 m or more high with a slender trunk; leaves small on short 

 petioles which are densely covered with a matted light brown wool; spadices short; panicles 

 short, the branches almost hidden by the thick matted wool which unites the branchlets 

 almost into a compact mass as if covered with cotton; fruits very small, 12 to 15 mm long, 

 8 to 10 mm wide, black, shining. 



This species was discovered by Mr. Gerrit P. Wilder in the forest-swamps of 



Halemanu, Kauai, and specimens were sent to the writer by him in May, 1911. 



It is an exceedingly interesting species and quite unique among Hawaiian Prit- 



chardias. It is, however, close to Pr. minor, from the same island. None of the 



palms so far found on Kauai have as large fruits as those found on the other 



islands of the Hawaiian group, another incident showing the great difference of 



species on Kauai from those of the geologically younger islands. The co-type 



is no. 8846 in the College of Hawaii Herbarium. 



Pritchardia Rockiana Becc. 



Loulu. 



PRITCHARDIA ROCKIANA Becc. in Webbia IV. p. ? 



A small tree 5 m high, trunk 3 dm in diameter, and of a gray color; leaves large, 

 glabrous above but furfuraceous and lighter colored underneath; panicle open and spread- 

 ing, freely branching, subglabrous; fruits large, obovate. 



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