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for the benefit of botanists who may wish to emulate the example of 

 Dr. and Mrs. Northrop it may be permissible to add that when other 

 material is being secured, ripe fruits, or even the naked seeds, are ex- 

 tremely desirable, and may usually be picked up at the base of the tree 

 long after the fruiting season has passed. 



The present list recognizes five palms from the Bahamas, though 

 two of these are not named specifically for lack of adequate material. 

 One ma,y be the species reported by Professor Hitchcock as Thrinax 

 argentea, while our Thrinax Bahamensis may correspond to his T. 

 parviflora, though numerous species of this group are doubtless to be 

 found in the Bahama archipelago. Grisebach reported only Sabal 

 umhraculifera, a name no longer tenable. It has been stated also that 

 the Bahamas have a cabbage palm {Euterpe) and a royal palm {Oreo 

 doxa), but these names are also not available for West Indian palms. 

 Moreover, it is not known that specimens exist from which better 

 identifications could be made. 



Sabalace^ 



Thrinax Bahamensis sp. nov. 



Leaves and inflorescence resembling Coccothrinax jucunda Sargent 

 {Bot. Gaz., 27, 89. 1899), but apparently to be associated rather with 

 Thrinax Keyensis Sargent {Bot. Gaz. , 27, 86. 1899) in view of the short 

 pedicels, distinctly lobed calyx, broad filaments and short styles. 



Petiole 48 cm. long, 15 mm. broad at base, narrowed to 12 mm. near 

 the apex ; equally convex on both sides, becoming flat above toward the 

 base ; segments of middle of leaf about 53 cm. long, and 32 mm. broad ; 

 lateral segments reduced to 30 cm. by 5 mm. ; texture thin and brittle ; 

 venation also closely similar toC. jucunda, but the surface distinctly 

 less pubescent, or the pubescence much more fugacious, as in other 

 species of true Thrinax; inflorescence with secondary branches slender, 

 subtended by narrow scarious bracts, 8 to 10 mm. in length ; bracts 

 with a distinct midvein and a pencil of hairs at the tip; pedicels of 

 flowers seldom i mm. in length, with 6 distinct subtriangular lobes ; 

 filaments triangular, often united at base to form a complete cup; 

 stigma trimcate or somewhat funnelform, about 0.5 mm. in length. 



This species is evidently much smaller in all its parts than Thrinax 

 Keyensis. The comparison of its leaves with those of Coccothrinax 

 jucunda is based on A. H. Curtis's No. 262 from Big Pine Key, which 



