1. Common point, grey or white ; 2. The same, with the dark points beginning to appear; 3. A more 
advanced stage, showing the extension of the aboye into white or grey hairlike stipes, supporting the 
dilated terminating cell; 4 & 5. The preceding matured; 6. The stalks with the collapsed peridiole ; 
7 . Fruit of the Thebaic Palm, naturalize, with parasitic Fungi. Figs. 1 to 6 are magnified. 
