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THRINAX WENDLAMMANA. BflOO. 



Thrinax Wexdlandiana, Beceari. Wthh'm, ii. '_!' 



Porothrixax fimilio, Wendland ex Grisebach, Cat. Ft. Cub. 221 (1866). 

 ? Thuinax Maktu, Grisebach A Wendland, Cat PL Cbfr.221 (1866). 

 Thrinax parviflora, Sauvalle, Ft. Cab. 152 (in part ? not Swartz) (1873). 



Leaves orbicular, flat or more or less plicate, from 7.5 to 9 decimetres in diameter, divided to 

 below the middle into narrow acnminate segments, the basal divisions extending nearly to the ligule, 

 pale yellow-green on the two surfaces; raelns.-ln.it with a thin undulate border; ligule thick, concave, 

 gradually narrowed into a long point or rarely rounded at the apex ; petioles compressed, unarmed, 

 rounded on the upper side, slightly ridged on the lower side, from <"> to 1 1.1 decimetres in length. 

 2 centimetres wide at the apex, coated with hoary tomentum and from f> to ~.f> centimetres broad 

 at the thickened base, their vaginas composed of tough, thin, light brown fibres covered with hoary 

 tomentum. Spadix interpetiolar, stalked, from 6.1 to 12.2 decimetres long, its primary branches 

 short, flattened, incurved, with numerous slender, terete flower-bearing branchlets ; flowers on 

 slender pedicels from 2.5 to 3 millimetres in length, deeply six-lobed, the lobes nearly triangular, acu- 

 minate; stamens on long slender exserted filaments barely united at the base; style gradually nar- 

 rowed into a small oblique stigma. Fruit globose, from G to 7 millimetres in diameter, with juicy 

 bitter ivory white flesh, easily separable from the thin-walled tawny brown nut ; seed free, erect, 

 slightly flattened at the ends, hilum sub-hasilar, oblong, pale and conspicuous J raphe short- 

 branched; albumen uniform, penetrated to the apex by the broad basal cavity ; embryo lateral. 



A tree, in Florida from 7 to 8 metres high, with a smooth trunk from 8 to 10 centimetres in 

 diameter. 1 



Florida: Dade County, C. 7\ Simpson and J. Soar, Madeira Hammock, common. April I 

 and December, 1911, Pumpkin Key, December, 1911, Flamingo, near (ape Sable, and northwest 

 of Cape Sable, November, 1912. Tuba, <\ Wright (No. 2329 in Herb. Gray, type). Mugueres 

 Island, Bay of Honduras, F. 9. OrWMT (teste BtCCOri). 



1 From Thrinax floridai 



