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CUBA: Province of Santa Clara, district of Cienfuegos, Cieneguita, Combs . 

 n. 694 (Herb. Berol.) Neighborhood of Santiago de las Vegas, Prov. de Habana, 

 Wilson n. S5l6 (Herb. Berol. and Becc.) Near Nueva Gerona, Isla de Pinos, 

 Curtiss n. 432 (Herb, de Cand.) 



JAMAICA: Near Castleton, Aug. 1902, Herb. Bot. depart, n. 8, in Herb. 

 Berol. (In these specimens the female flowers are almost globular and very 

 slightly or not apiculate. The male flowers are slightly smaller than in the plant 

 of Cuba (4-4.5 mm. long). The fruit as in the type, but with the intrusion of 

 the integument more pronounced. (Figure 113, d, e, f). 



S. DOMINGO: Mouth of the Yuna River, Taylor n. 6I (Herb. Berol.) 

 Fruits as in the type from Cuba (12 mm. long, 9 mm. broad) but with the seed 

 almost completely free from the inner wall of the endocarp; intrusion of the 

 integument of the seed rather deep. (Figure 113, f). 



ST. CROIX (Danish Antilles): Rev. J. J. Ricksecker n. 103 (Herb. Berl.) 

 Apparently not different from the plant of Cuba. 



PANAMA: Fruits indistinguishable from those of the Cuban specimens, but 

 with the seed adherent to the inner wall of the endocarp over a very small area 

 only. 



Oreodoxa charibaea (Spreng) Damm. et Urb. in Symb. Antill. IV 129. 

 Roystonea Borinquena O. F. Cook in Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 1901, p. 

 552, t. 45 f. 2 a dextera. Euterpe charibaea Spreng. Syst. II (1825) p. 

 140 (excl. Areca oleracea Jacq.) 



The type of Euterpe charibaea of Sprengel is apparently a specimen col- 

 lected by Bertero in Porto Rico, but doubtless Sprengel also included in his 

 diagnosis the characters of Oreodoxa oleracea, for he describes the fruits as "sub- 

 incurvatis." I have examined one of Bertero's specimens in the Berlin Herbarium, 

 and another in that of De Candolle; both consisting of small portions of the 

 spadix with male and female flowers only. The male flowers have 6-7 stamens 

 with anthers slightly larger than in the flowers of O. regia from Cuba. The female 

 flowers have the teeth of the staminal urceolum furnished with sufficiently distinct 

 anther cells ; but little importance is to be attached to this character as rudimentary 

 anther cells exist also in the female flowers of Wright's n. 1467 from East Cuba, 

 whereas they are altogether absent in the flowers of the specimens coming from 

 the opposite end of the island. 



I have examined of 0. charibaea the flowering specimens of Sintenis n. l605, 

 and the fruits numbered VII of the same collector (Herb. Berol.) and also com- 

 plete specimens in flower and fruit from plants cultivated in the botanical Garden 

 at Buitenzorg (Figure 113, a, b, c). The main differences between 0. charibaea 

 and O. regia consist in the fruit, which is somewhat larger in the first than in the 

 second, and in the seed, which remains almost entirely free from the inner wall of 

 the endocarp. The fruits in Sintenis n. VII are 13 mm. long, 10-10.5 mm. broad. 

 In the fruits from the plants cultivated at Buitenzorg the intrusion of the inte- 

 gument of the seed into the mass of the albumen is considerably deeper than in 



