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fruits of T. wendlandiana seem to be smaller than those of T. parvi flora, but 

 of the first I have seen none sufficiently developed for exact comparison. In 

 T. parviflora the filaments are a little longer than the teeth of the perianth, 

 and have lanceolate bases ; and the proportion between the breadth and length 

 of the anthers (in fully exjjanded Hovvers) is 1 :6-7 ; while in T. ivcndlandmna 

 the filaments are linear from their bases, considerably longer than the teeth 

 of the perianth, and the proportion between the breadth and the length of 

 the anthers is 1:10. (Figure 164). 



The photo was taken at Santa Catalina, Prov. Pinar del Rio, and in 

 that locality were gathered the specimens bearing the n. 3464. To this 

 species belong Wright n. 3219, and n. 3928 of van Hermann, collected near 

 Havana. 



Figure 164. Thrinax wendlandiana. a, apical portion of a flowering branchlet; b, 

 flower; c, fruiting perianth, out of which the fruit has been taken, seer< from 

 above, and showing the bases of the fllaments; d, fruit; e, seed cut longitudinally 

 through the embryo. From Wright No. 3219. 



I consider as belonging to T. Wendlandiana some specimens collected by 

 Gaumer in the Mugueres Island in the Bay of Honduras, and another from 

 Gozumel Island, also, near the coast of Honduras. I have, also, just received 

 (February, 1912) specimens of T. icendlandiana, which has been recently 

 discovered at Madeira Hummock, near the extreme southern point of 

 Florida, and, also, at Pumpkin Key, by a correspondent of Prof. Sargent. 

 Thrinax drudei Becc. in Webbia di U. Mart., II (1907), 269. T. multiflora 



(non Mart.) Wright, PI. Cub. n. 3965. 



