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the others having evidently been cut away, to be employed in thatching houses, 

 etc., or perhaps in the manufacture of hats. 



Prof. Baker's photographs were taken in the savannahs of the western 

 part of the island, where this Sabal seems to be a common plant (n. 857 of the 

 dry specimens). Baker's n. 2308 from Batabano, Prov. of the Habana, and 

 "Wright's n. 3970 belong to this species. 



S. parviflora grows also at Nueva Gerona in the Isla de Pinos, near the 

 southwest coast of Cuba, according to Curtiss n. 484. 



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Figure 152. Sabal florida. a, portion of a flowering branchlet; b, flower during the 

 anthesis; c, longitudinal section of a flower. From Combs No. 292. 



Sabal florida Becc. in Webbia di U. Martelli, II, 46; S. umbraculiferum 

 (non Mart.) Combs in Trans. Ac. Sc. St. Louis, VII (1897), 471. 



It has been said by Mr. N. L. Britton in the review of my paper on the 

 "Palme Americane" (Torreya, VIII (1908), 238) that 8. florida differs but 

 slightly from S. palmetto; but from this latter it is at once distinguishable 

 by its terete (not angular) flower-bearing branehlets, and longer and nar- 

 rower flowers. The specimens upon which the species was established were 

 collected by Rob. Combs (n. 292) at Cieneguita, Prov. of Santa Clara, district 

 of Cienfuegos, were common in poor soil, have a portion of the spadix in flower, 

 the fruit is wanting, and nothing is known of the aspect and general dimen- 

 sions of the plant. (Fig. 152.) 



Sabal yapa Wright, PI. Cubenses n. 3971 (nomen nudum) ; Sauvalle Fl. 

 Cubana 152; G. Maza, Nociones, etc. (1903), 51 ; Becc. in Webbia di U. 

 Mart., II, 64. S. mexicana (non Mart.) Gaum. PI. Yucat. exic, n. 317. 

 Corypha maritima Humb. et Bonpl. Nov. Gen. et Spec. pl. I, 298? 



It is easily distinguishable from the other two Cuban species by its leaves, 

 which are unequally and twice divided, several primary divisions being three- 

 costulate and divided again into two unicostulate acuminate segments having 



