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agglomerated around the ultimate branchlets and hidden by densely hairy 

 bracts, so as to form small woolly oatkin-like spikes, as thick as a man's 

 little finger. (Figure 159). 



Specimens collected from plants at Guanal)acoa, near Havana, bear the 

 n. 2928. 



^ Figure 157. Copernicia glabrescens. a, the summit of a flowering branchlet; b, open 

 flower as seen from above; c, flower; d, longitudinal section of the above flower. 

 From Wright No. 3968. 



It has been collected, also, at Calieita, District of Cienfuegos, Prov. of 

 Santa Clara (Combs n. 335), and distributed by Wright under the n. 3969. 

 Ramon de la Sagra first discovered tliis palm in Cuba in the year 1829 

 (Herb. De Cand.) and he gives the vernacular name "Yapa". C. macro- 

 glossa is, according to Prof. Baker, the so-called "Yata" palm. 



