194 MR. SPRUCE ON FIVE NEW PLANTS FROM EASTERN PERU. 
though, having not yet seen perfect flowers and spathes, I am not 
certain about it. When the people go to cut palmitos in the 
time of Lent, they sometimes mistake the Wettinia for the Iri- 
arteas, which have edible palmitos, while that of the Wettinia is 
very bitter and may be distinguished from the others by its 
striped appearance (caused by the vertical imbrication of the 
young pinna), whence it is often called SA4llu-chonta. The 
-Huácara-póna, or Horn-palm (I. exorrhiza, Mart.), though fre- 
quent in the moist woods of the plain, I have not yet seeu at the 
same elevation as the palms above-mentioned. 
I proceed to give the characters of the two species of Wettinia, 
and a description of W. Maynensis, drawn up from fresh speci- 
mens. I abstain from offering an amended character of the genus 
until I shall have an opportunity of examining specimens of 
W. augusta, and perhaps of other species which yet remain to be 
discovered. 
Wertinia, Popp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. i. 89, +. 153 et 154 a-i; 
Kunth, Enumer. iii. 109 et 589. 
W.AUGUSTA (P.et E.). Rhizomate conico e radicibus arcte sibi invicem 
impositis conflato ; pinnis 18-20-jugis ; spathis propriis 2; spadicibus 
simplicibus pluribus (8-15), ex eodem verticillo ortis; rhaphe arilli- 
formi carnosa. 
Hab. “In Peruvie Transandine sylvis pulcherrimis obumbrantibus, 
quibus arcetur ripa borealis fluvii Tocache.” (Pæppig, loc. cit.) 
W. MavNENsiS (Spruce). Rhizomate conico, e radicibus inter se liberis 
dissitiusculis conflato ; pinnis 38-40-jugis ; spathis propriis 3; spadi- 
cibus apice congesto-ramosis, paucis (sub 3), ex eodem verticillo ortis ; 
rhaphe arilliformi tenui. 
Hab. In convallibus Andium Maynensium umbrosis, precipue secus 
rivulos, alt. 3000'-4000', sociis Iriartea ventricosa Mart. et deltoidea 
R. et P. (?). 
Descr. |Caudez radicibus strictis subaculeatis е terrá emersis et in 
conum 3 pedes altum conniventibus sustentus, erectus, inermis, 30-40- 
pedalis, diametro 4-unciali, annulatus; annulis latis, spatio 4 unc. 
sejunctis. Frondes 5 v. 6 contemporanes, patulz, ambitu lanceolate, 
obtusz, basi in vaginam przlongam 3}-pedalem integram subventri- 
cosam dilatate, glabre. Rhachis 9}-ped., supra triangularis, subtus 
semiteres, basi в014 subcanaliculata, et a basi ipsá pinnata. Pinnæ 
38-40 paria, subæquidistantes; infimæ diminutæ; mediæ 3-pedales, 
latitudine 3-unciali, angulo 40°-50° insertæ, basi semiverticales redu- 
plicatæ cuneatæ, dein dimidiato-lineari-lanceolatæ, apice obtusato- v. 
truneato-premorse, margine antico apiceque incise, dentibus præ- 
morsis subacutisve; vens plurimæ, basi fere contiguse, superne magis 
