Protologue Description: Sabal ETONIA Swingle, n. sp.

Plant 8-14 dm. tall. Rootstock more or less contorted, elongated, bearing numerous roots on the lower surface along its entire length; leaves nearly orbicular in outline, 4-6 dm. long, about two-thirds the length of the petioles, strongly folded at the base along the middle, divided almost to the bottom, the divisions linear, acuminate, the sinuses long-filiferous; petioles 1-1.5 cm. broad, smooth, triangular, the back rounded, the edges sharp; spadix a little shorter than the leaves, branching above, erect or ascending in flower, prostrate in fruit; flowers yellowish white; divisions of the perianth elliptic, obtuse, 5-nerved, 3-3.5 mm. long, 1. 5-1.75 mm. broad, concave; stamens a little longer than the perianth, the filaments broad-subulate, slightly exceeding 3 mm. in length; anthers narrowly ovate, about 1.5 mm. long; fruit 1.3-1.5 cm. in diameter.
Very common in and confined strictly to the “scrub." Collected in 1894 in the vicinity of Eustis, Lake Co., and distributed under No. 999.