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placed a little above the base, very small and not prominent. Pericarp on the 

 whole about 3 mm. thick and almost inflate, having the mesocarp almost empty 

 in the dry state, and apparently very juicy when fresh; epicarp thinly pellicular, 

 brittle; endocarp very thinly woody, it forms a shell to the seed iS-ll mm. in 

 length and 8 mm. in breadth, rounded above, narrowing towards the base, which is 

 rather acute and slightly bent; its outer surface is marked by a rather close net 

 of fine fibers. Seed 10-11 mm. long, 6 mm. broad, entirely free from the inner 

 wall of the endocarp, elliptical in outline on tlie front view, and subreniform when 

 seen laterally, being slightly excavate on the side of the hilum and convex on the 

 other side; it is rounded above, and rather acute at the base, has a dull brown 

 surface, the vascular area of the raphe is suborbicular, and the hilum is in the 

 middle of it ; the intrusion of the raphe is broadly conical ; the embryo is at the 

 base, but a little apart from the point of the seed. (Figure 115). 



The specimens upon which I have based the species were sent to me by Prof. 

 Urban of the Berlin Botanical Museum and were collected by Mr. Wm. Harris 

 (n. 9843) in Jamaica, in the Morass at Middle Quarters, 23 IX 1907. 



Probably the plant has the appearance of 0. regia, but it is not known if 

 the trunk is cylindrical or has a tendency to take a fusiform shape. It differs 

 from 0. regia by its broader leaflets, by the spadices being more loosely branched 

 and with longer and more slender branchlets, which bear female flowers accom- 

 panied by two males only in the lower two-thirds of the lialf part; but it differs 

 especially by its small male flowers, and by its larger fruit, having a watery 

 mesocarp (reduced almost to nothing in the dry fruit), and finally by its sub- 

 reniform seed rounded above and subacute at the base. 



PSEUDOPHOENIX H. Wendl. 



H. Wendl. in Bot. Gaz. XI (1886) et in Gardn. Chr. IV (Ser. 3) Oct. 1888 

 p. 408 f. 56. Sargentia Wendl. (nomen) ex Nich. et Mott. Diet. Hort. et ex 

 Sprenger in Bull. Soc. tosc. Ort 1889 p- 341. Chamae phoenix A. H. C. in Florida 

 Farmer and Fruit Grower, Jacksonville, Febr. 22, 1887 (with a fig.). Cyclospathe 

 O. F. Cook in Mem. Torrey Bot. Club, XII (1902) p. 25. 



Sterile specimens of a Pseudophoenix distributed from the New York Botan- 

 ical Garden, under the name of Pseudophoenix sargentii, were collected by Mr. 

 J. A. Shafer (n. 6801) in March, 1909, at Cayo Guajaba, Camaguey on the 

 north coast of Cuba. I have seen of these only some fragments of leaves, from 

 which alone it is difficult to decide if they really belong to Pseudophoenix sar- 

 gentii, or to an allied species. I make this observation because a species of 

 Pseudophoenix different from that of Florida, was really in past times found in 

 Haiti; this being the Palma dactylifera et vinifera of Plumier, which palm has 

 not been as yet found again by modern botanists, but which may very possiblj' 

 be the same plant as that collected bv Shafer at Cayo Guajaba. 



Pseudophoenix vinifera Becc. Euterpe ? vinifera Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, 

 V. Ill, p. LXXXV, t. morf. Z, II, fig. XVIII-XIX. Cocos ? vinifera 

 Mart. 1. c. V. Ill, 324. Gaussia vinifera Wendl. in Kerch. Palm. p. 245. 

 Palma dactylifera et vinifera Plum. Gen. Amer. 3 Icon. t. 29, 30. ms. 



