side above the middle smooth, e.baesal portion with a thick 
smooth shoulder; sheath green usually covered with 4 
grayish coat, smooth or sometimes few spines on the upper 
part opposite the lesf; infrutescence pendulous, arising a 
few inches above the leaf axils, 4 feet long; its sheaths 
green and provided with few recurved apines; the branches 
sesttered, 6 to 10 inches apart, stem not iixkasirew lone; 
6 inches Long or lees toward the apex the fruit bearin 
branchlets sascendingly curved; fruite pale creen, clobose 
or a trifle longer, fully 1/2 inch thiek; *Lintoken;" 
Todays, June, 1909, 
‘11879. 4alaces clemensiana Leer, n. ep, Lerge dense 
tufte in moist fertile soil of shellow ravines near streams 
at 3000 feet in thickets on the T@lon side of the mountain 
range; stemlese, about 7 to 13 in a cluster; leaves 3 to & 
in a bunch, the central ones erect, the outer ones ascendinzc, 
15 feet long or longer; petiole convex below and densely 
provided with neeile-like 2 to 3 inches long spines, the deep 
groove on the upper side amooth, marine shredded, broadly 
expanded at the base, green or with glaucercent blotches; 
leaflets ascending from the base, etronctly recurved, the 
Slender tipe pendulous, touch not rigid, dark green and 
sublucid above, giaucous or chalky white beneath; irrerular 
in groups; rachis rounded beneath and with seattered spines 
emooth and angular above, dirty ar dinzy glauceacent beneath; 
inflorescence arsing from the side and base of the expanded 
petiole, erect, 2 to 3 feet high, stalk at the base 1 inch 
thick, with 5 to 7 branches alternating every 3 inches or 
such & leneth apart: brenches much twisted or curved, giving 
rise to alternating «pikes, whitish, eubtended by long mare. 
eescent shesths; spikes terete, upon short whitish peduncles, 
ascending, usually curved, averaging 3 inches long; flowers 
dense, pink at least when young; “Lacaubi"; fruite sare enid 
to be about <2 inches in diameter, globose and edible. 
Yodaya, July, 1909, 
113880, Gaenonorops gaudichaudii Mart, In damp 
fertile soil of thickets along etreame at 3000 feet on the 
Talon eide of the mountain range: 3 to 5 stems arising 
from the same root cluster; stem not lone, more or less 
densely sheath covered clear to the base where the woody 
portion is 1/2 inch thick, the Leaf bearing portion 2 1/2 
inches thick; leaves ascendihgly recurved, 6 inches ¢aft= 
apart, alternate, 6 feet Long, extended into 2 4 foot lons 
hooked rachis; petiole yellowish creen, compresesd, 1 inch 
wide at the base, provided with epines which are especially 
long beneath; rachie hooked along the lower side, spiny 
flong the ridge above; lestietese slightly darker green above, 
subchartaceous, deacendingly eurved, sheaths green, densely 
beset with 3 to 5 inches long epines more or less united at 
their baces and arroenged (horizontally) traneversely, the 
margins of the sheaths especially provéded with numerous brown 
fiattened spines much ascendianz and seme of which are 10 
inehes in ¥k length; infrutescence axillary, ascending from 
the base, otherwise pendulous, about 3 feet long, bearing 
about S or 5 alternating branches 6 inches apart, the basal 
sheath persistent and densely provided with spines on the 
outside; stalk smooth, slender, flexible, covered with 
dark brown pulverulence; branches 6 inchee long, rather 
densely and finely rebranched; the pedicels and bracts brown; 
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