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A. Ultimate divisions of the spadix slender, more or less scorpioid. 

 a. Spathels, bracts and Howers hairy. 



b. Flower buds ovoid, rather acute, divisions of the corolla 

 equilaterally triangular. C. liospita 



bb. Flower buds long-i)ointed, divisions of the corolla elon- 

 gate-triangular, acuminate. C. curtissii 

 aa. Spathels, bracts and flowers glabrous. C. glabrescens 



Figure 156. Copernicia curtissii. a, the summit of a flowering branchlet; b, flower; 

 c, longitudinal section of a flower; d, fruit; e, seed, as seen from the raphal side; 

 f, side view of the same seed; g, seed cut longitudinally through the embryo. 

 From Curtiss No. 435. 



AA. Ultimate divisions of the spadix covered with closely packed flowers, 

 amentiform on the whole, softly and densely hairy and as thick as 

 a man's little finger. C. macroglossa 



Copernicia hospita Mart. Hist. nat. Palm., II, 243, t. 50 A, f. 5, et III, 319; 

 Gris. PI. Cub. 220; Sauv. Fl. Cub. n. 2365; R. Combs in Trans. Ac. Sc. 

 St. Louis, VIII, 17, (1897), 471 ; Becc. in Webbia di U. Mart. II (1907), 

 172. 



