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furfure rnfo-griseo adspersa. Petiolns profunde canalieula- 
ins basi vaginante $—10- pedalis. Vagina inter vaginarım 
emortuarun rudimenta recondita, ellipsoidea, fimbris rnfis 
longe barbata, colore rnfo, breviter es laxe amplexicanlis. — 
Inlorescentia infra peliolos vaginantes, spatha uniea(?) co- 
siacea, fusca, lanerolaio-acıminata fecta; spadix monoiens 
simpliciter dense ramosus, annulo erasso semilanate caudicem 
amplexans, pendulus, breviter peduneulatus; rami strieti, duri, 
acenmbentes, superne fruetibus dense tecti. 
Bacca monosperma atro -eoernlea, ovalis, pruni magni- 
tudine, phyllis perigonialibus sustenta, styli rudimento paramı 
enspidata, pericarpio mueilaginoso tenui, atro-violaceo, endo- 
carpio üibrose, fihris violaceis prope basin solutis semen in- 
volventibus; testa membranacea unilalerali-striata, albumen 
cornenm, fragile, sectile, carnenm; embryo magnns, 3/4 se- 
minis altitadine, ohtuso-coniens, flavas, mollis, gliutinosus, 
perpendieulariter basilaris, radicula infera e fihris solatis pro- 
minente. 
Hace palma in silvis tam fregnens oceurrit ut per se 
silvam peeuliarem effcere videatur; maxime autem obvia fit 
in regionibus planis humidisgue prope Aluvios Magdalenae, 
Catatombi, Sardinatae aique Guamas in Novo-Granata et 
Venezuela. — Utilitas ejus maxime varia est. In Venezuela: 
„Palma de leche«; in Novo-Granata: „mil pesos‘* appellatar. 
