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name of E. montana is due, have stout spadices with short thickish rigid 

 branchlets; but this same aspect of spadices is shown in specimens from 

 Martinique (Hahn n. 805) ; while other specimens from this same island (Hahn 

 n. 580) have spadices in no way distinguishable from those of the plants from 

 Porto Rico, Cuba, etc. The more or less stoutness and rigidity of the spadix 

 and of the leaves is no doubt a phenomenon depending upon the different con- 

 ditions of ambient, in which the plants lived, from which the specimens were 

 gathered. 



( Figure 144. Euterpe globosa. a, portion of a branchlet with two fruiting perianths; 

 b, fruit, front view; c, seed covered by the sac formed by the inner layer of 

 fibres of the mesocarp; d, seed covered by the partial shield-like endocarp; e, 

 same seed after it had had its surface polished to show the branching of the 

 raphe, as seen from the side of the hilum; f, the same seed cut longitudinally 

 through the embryo; g, longitudinal section of an entire fruit after it had 

 recovered its fresh appearance by boiling; this last figure from fruits collected 

 in Porto Rico; all the other figures from Wright No. 1468. 



