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The perianth apparently is not accrescent after flowering, is spread under 

 the fruit, and is about ;> mm. in diameter; the sepals are subreniform; the petals 

 are considerably larger and longer than the sepals, deltoid, bluntish, thickish, and 

 obsoletely striatcly veined externally ; the remains of six filaments are still visible 

 in the shape of six very small conical bodies. (Figures 117, 118). 



I have seen of Gaussia princeps Wright's typical specimens with fruit only 

 (n. 3224 Herb. Berol.) upon which the species was founded, and I had the oj)- 

 portunity of examining very good specimens with flowers, collected by Britton, 

 Earle and Gager (n. 6792 in Berl, Herb.) at San Diego de los Baiios, Province 

 Pinar del Rio; others with fruits were gathered, I think, in the same locality by 

 van Hermann (n. 3 i63 in Herb. Becc. and Berol.) 



In my monograph of the Genus Daemonorops (Vol. XII of the "Annals of 

 tile Royal Botanic Garden of Calcutta," p. 9) I have jjublished some observa- 

 tions on the peculiar cushions or callosities, so frequently found in the axillas of 

 the leaflets in palm leaves, and have also mentioned those of a Gaussia splendens, 

 which name, however, is only an oversight for Gaussia princeps. 



Figure 117. Gaussia princeps. a, portion of a flowering branchlet; b, male flower 

 in bud; c, male flower during anthesis; d, longitudinal section of a young female 

 flower; e, longitudinal section of a young fruit. 



