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from White Water Bay in Florida, of which I have spoken in Webbia p. 117, 

 and which I had considered as different from A. arborescens. It remains, 

 also, doubtful whether A. arborescens of Florida should be considered 

 specifically distinct from or only as a geographical form of the type plant of 

 Cuba, and, also, whether Paurotis androsana of the Bahamas (of which I have 

 seen no specimens) agrees more with the plant of Cuba or with that of Florida. 

 (Figure 154). 



Figure 155. Copernicia hospita. a, the summit of a flowering branchlet; b, c, flower- 

 buds; d, open flower as seen from above; e, longitudinal section of a flower; f, 

 seed, side view; g, the same seed cut longitudinally through the embryo, a, b, 

 c, d, from Wright No. 3216; f, g, from Combs No. 334. 



COPERNICIA Mart. 



Hist. nat. Palm. Ill, 242, t. 49, 50 (excl. t. 50 A, I-IV), et Palm. Orbign. 

 41, t. 1, f. 3 et t. 94; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. pi. Ill, 927 (excl. Chrysophila) ; 

 Becc. in Webbia di U. Mart., II (1907), 140. 



The species of this genus indigenous to Cuba belong, without exception, 

 to the section Coperniciopsis, or to those of which the spadix has all its 

 divisions, to the smallest -flower-bearing branchlets, sheathed in spathes or 

 spathels more or less tubular in their basal parts. 



