Nunnezliaria^l i^QUAtoeial-american palms. 123 



Spathce 2 pediinculum floriferum excedentes, a basi usc[ue ad 8 polli- 

 cum altitudinem integr^e et pedimculum arete vaginautes, apice 2-4- 

 pollicari auguste fusiforini antice ruptas et cito tibroso-dissolutoe. 



Flores omnes quos vidi S nondum aperti. Calyx annularis alveolo 

 semlinimersus breviter trilobus transverse corrugatus; lobo inferiore 

 subaltiore, unde alveoli cum calyce solo persist ente cunabuli- 

 formes evadimt. Ccn'oUa e petalis 3 suborbicularibus valvatis, calyce 

 triplo longioribus. Stainina G biseriata corolla inclusa eidem ipsa 

 basi adnata et brevissime monadelpha ; Jilamenta brevia compressa, 

 connectivo incluso subulata ; antherce erect£e turgide oblongae basi 

 apiceque profunde emarginatse, loculis ad latera debiscentibus. Pis- 

 tilli rudimentum staminibus sequilongum et cum serie interna basi 

 concretum^ subteres, apice truncato disciformi. 



Ohs, — An hue referenda; quum nee flores $ nee fructus vidi, et spadice 

 distincte alveolato gaudeat, valde dubius sum. 



MonENiA, Euiz et Pav. Syst. 299. 

 Inffuished from Nunnezliaria by tl 



androeccum 

 .dices (at le; 



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are said to be 4-nate in the S plant, solitary in the ? . In M. 

 JPoppigiana (the only species known to me) I have found them 

 6-nate in the <S plant. The ? flowers I have not seen ; but the tri- 

 partite ovary, although not specially mentioned, is plainly indi- 

 cated in Martius's description of the two species known to him, 

 even the fruit being sometimes triple, in consequence of all the 

 three carpels being fertile. M.fragrans^ E. et P., has " Baccse 3 

 monospermse," and M, Poppifjiana^ Mart., " Baccse nunc 3 in sin- 

 gulo flore evolutse, nunc unica stigmatihus 3 txcentricis notata.^^ 



Mar 



Hab 



prope confluentem Chincao, locis rupestribus sylvaticis (Pojyp. in 



Mart)} in eadem valle^ in sylra exeelsis ad pedem montis Campana^ 



ipse legi (S. hb. Palm, 58). 



audices 6-pedales tenues distanter annulati. Folia 7-pedalia (pe- 

 tiolo proprio pedali ejusdemque vagina pedali Integra inelusis), 

 ambitu longe lanceolata pinnata, glaberrima ; pinnce 28-jugae, infe- 

 riores suboppositse, 20-22-pollicares^ longe lanceolatse tenuiacimii- 

 natiE parum faleatee; basi fere verticali inserta^, pra^ter costam me- 

 diam quadiiveniae, pluries plicato-striataj ; pinnae superiores dimidio 



breviores altemse. 



mdices J verticillati, 6 ex unica folii vagina dissoluta erumpentes, 



vix pedales (pedunculo subsemipedali incluso), simpliciter ramosi, 



