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0. regia is also reported from the Bahamas. (Gardiner in Proc. Acad. Phil. 

 1890, p. 358), (non. vidi). 



Several notes about O. regia have been already published by me in the 

 "Annales du Jardin botanique de Buitenzorg" v. II (1885), but I think it con- 

 venient to give here a detailed description of the Cuban 0. regia, which may be 

 considered as the type, for establishing its specific characters on solid bases. 



The leaves of O. regia are very large, have an elongate leaf sheath, tightly 

 enveloping the vegetative cone, and one after another drops off at every fresh 



Figure 110. Oreodoxa regia growing on high, stony ground in Western Cuba in 

 the shade of a huge ceiba tree. Note varying form of trunk. 



emission of a spadix, leaving the trunk quite clean, but more or less distinctly 

 ringed. The leaflets are alternately inserted in contrary ways along the rachis, 

 and stand in four different planes, at least in its lower and intermediate part, but 

 are more regularly set, and almost on one plane towards the end. The leaf- 

 rachis is at first more or less sprinkled with small, appressed, orbicular, tobacco- 

 colored, deciduous scales, and by age acquires a glabrous appearance. 



