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Creseit in silvis montosis, udis, umbxrosis frigidisqgue in 
andium regione provineiae Trujillo juxta Villa Bocono. 
Mense Augusto floret. 
Geonoma pulchra Eng. 
Palma habitu amoeno gracili, 8—12-pedalis, 14/9, —? 
poll. diametro, eolore ochrolenca, glabra, annulis angnstis 
dense cicatricosa, ligno farescente. Folia plurima 5—6- 
pedalin, 21/, pedes lata, subaequaliter sabtiliter pinnatiserta, 
apice pari-biida, subovalia, erectinscula, apice aequahiliter 
autantia, petiolo brevi, triquetro, vagina reticulatim Ahresa, 
ventricosa, externe purpurascenfe, intus fusco-Intea, hreviter 
amplexicauli; pinnae rachi tri-— quadriquetra utringue 2 — 
28-jugae, oppositae alternaeve, 1%, -pedales, Ygs Yyr Ya 
1 et 2 pollices latae, basi lata plana sessiles, lineari -lan- 
eeolatae, 8— 5- et ultra nervine, supremae ambae 3— 4 pol- 
lives Iatae, 7— 11-nerviae, uervis primariis sparsissime lepi- 
dibus squamosis longis et siceis vestitis, pagina inferiore seri- 
ceo-puberula, superiore glabra, obseure nitida; strietiuseu- 
ine, cosiato-nervosae, horizontaliter patentes, apiee parum 
reelinatae. — Inflorescentia infra petiolerum vaginas. 
Spathae? Hores ? 
Spadix bipedalis et ultra, triplo ramesus, verru6os0- 
tnberculösns, dilete ruber, pendulus, basi lanata eandicem 
amplexaus, parum ramosus, ramulis superne in 2—3 ramu- 
los frnctiferos divisis. füroatisye. Frocius baccati numerosi, 
pisi majoris magnitndine, ovales, apienlati, perigonio sustenti, 
pericarpio tenni, earnoso, nigro, endocarpio membranateo 
semen involvente, testa atropurpnrea, siria sanguinen einota, 
basi uniporosa; embryone minnte in albumine osse0 albo- 
coernleo subbasilari-loeato. 
Haec palma pulcherrima silvas umlrosas in regione AD- 
