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Brahea (Four known species of this)

Of the four known species of this genus, one is indigenous to Mexican Texas and the mountains of Mexico, and the rest inhabit Mexico and the Andes. To that described on p. 209, Vol. I., the following should now be added: B. nitida (shining). fl., spadix very large, much-branched, glabrous. fr. black, about the size of a pea. l. large, fan-like, palmately cleft, glaucous-green. Mexico, 1887. (R. H. 1887, p. 344, f. 67-70.) B. Roezlii (Roezl's). A synonym of Erythea armata.