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Of E. oleracea I have seen specimens from the following localities : Cuba — 

 Wright n. 1468 (Herb, de Cand.). S. Domingo — Pater Miguel Fuertes n. 562; 

 Eggers n. 1601, 1848 "Sierra de Palo Quemada"; H. Von Tuerckheim, prope 

 Barahona (Herb. BeroL). Porto mco—Sintenis n. 483, 2118, 1525, 1468 

 (Herb. Berol.) ; Bertcro (H«rb. de Cand. et Berol.) ; Eggers n. 1165, 1170. 

 Saba (Dan. Ant.)— Suringar, 23, IV, 1885 (Herb. Berol.). Tobago (Dan. 

 Ant.) — Eggers n. 5740. Martinique — Hahn n. 580 and n. 805 (Herb, de 

 Cand.) ; Pere Duss (Herb. Berol.). Guadeloupe — Duchassaing (Herb. Berol.) ; 

 Pere Duss n. 3800. St. Ymcent— Eggers n. 6756 (Herb. Berol.). St. Kitta 

 (St. Christopher) — Britton and Cowell n. 306 (Herb. Berol.). Grenada — 

 Eggers n. 6173 (Herb. Berol.) ; R. V. Herring, 15, V, 1891 (Herb. Berol.) ; 

 W. E. Broadway n. 1460 (Herb. Berol.). 



I have seen no specimens from Jamaica. 



Gardiner in Proceed. Ac. Phil. (1890) p. 359 (non vidi) mentions a 

 Euterpe oleracea from the Bahamas, which also should probably be reduced 

 to E. glohosa. 



CALYPTROGYNE H. Wendl. 



IT. Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 1859, 72; Benth. ct Hook. Gen. plant III, 914; 

 Calyptronoma Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 518: Geonoma Auct. plur. o S 



Calyptrogyne swartzii "B«cc.^ C. diilcis G. Maza in Dice. Botan. (1889), 

 72, and Nociones de Bot. (1893), 50. C. occidentalis G. Maza, Noc. 

 1. c. C. intermedia G. Maza, Noc. I. c. Calyptronoma swartzii Griseb. 

 FI. Brit. W. Ind., 518. Geonoma (Calyptronoma) swartzii Gris., 

 Wright n. 1466; Gris. Cat. pi. Cub., 222. Geonoma (Calyptronoma) 

 dulcis Wr., in Gris. Cat. pi. Cub., 220. Geonoma swartzii Gris. et 

 Wendl. (Wr. 1466); Sauvalle, Fl. Cub., 153. G. intermedia Gris. et 

 Wendl. (Wr. 3972) ; Sauv. 1. c. G. dulcis Wr., Sauv 1. c. G. plumeriana 

 Mart. Palm. Orb. 34, et Hist. nat. Palm. Ill, 316. Elaeis? occidentalis 

 Sw. Fl. Ind. occ. I, 619. 



In the photograph reproduced in Fig. 145, Calyptrogyne swartzii appears 

 as a palm of medium size, but with relatively stout stem, 20-25 cm. in diameter, 

 somewhat crooked, and rendered rough by very prominent ring-like leaf-scars. 

 According to Grisebach the trunk is 5-8 m. high, and is only slightly enlarged 

 at its base (trunco 15'-25' alto basi subajquali — Gris.) 



Leaves 5-6 m. long (Gris.), very regularly pinnate; leaf-sheaths short, 

 with a thick broad base, which gradually narrows into a short robust petiole ; 

 rachis glabrous, or minutely dotted with inconspicuous scales. The leaflets 

 are numerous, closely and very regularly set in one plane, narrow and long, 

 or ensiform, very gradually acuminate from below the middle to a long, 

 slightly falcate, and slender point; are strongly reduplicate at the base, and 

 with the margins almost involute, firmly papyraceous or thinly coriaceous and 

 distinctly 5-8-costulate ; the side costae appearing considerably prominent 

 underneath, and slightly above ; the lower surface moreover has the mid-costa 

 furnished with linear, brown, chaffy scales, and has the tertiary nerves covered 

 with extremely minute punctiform scales; otherwise it is of about the same 



