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PALMARUM 



F AMELIA PRIMA: 



ARECINAE. 



Ovarium constans carpidiis plernmque tribus, raro duobus, jam ab initio in 

 u n tun en n n a i is. ideo tri-aut raro biloculare, rarissime nnico indeque unilocidare. 

 Ovula in quovis loculo solitaria, rarissime bina, (interdum omnino deficientia in 

 nno alterove loculo?), crccta ant lateraliter appensa. Fructus omnibus ovulis evolutis 

 trilocularis aut profunde trilobus et quasi triplex, ant ovuloruin abortu unilocularis, 

 aut rarius bilocularis; baccatus aut tenuitcr drupaceus. Stamina hypogyna. 



Flores in rhachi aut laevigata aut scrobiculata sessiles. Spat/iae pit/res, 

 raro unica, rarissime nulla. Frondes pinnatae, aut pinnato-Jrssae, rarius bipin- 

 natac. Pinnae redttplicatae. 





I. CHAMAEDOREA. 



WILLD. Spec, plant. IV. II. p. G3S. No. 180G. p. S00. MART. Palm. bras. p. 3. t. 3. — Nlnsezharia RUIZ ct PAV. Prod. Fl. per. chil. 

 p. 147. t. 31. Nunnezia Willd. Spec, plant. IV. II. p. 1134. — BORASSI spec. JACQ. Hort. SchOnhr. II. t. 247. 24S. 



DIOECA. Spatfae plurcs, basilarcs. Flores ebractcati, sessiles. MASC. Calyx cupularis, (rilobus. Corolla tripctala, 

 aestivalione valvala. Stamina sex. Kidimkntlm pislilli. l'OKM. Calyx (ripartitns, cupularis. Corolla Iripetala, aestivatione 

 valvata, vcl tridentata. RuDIMENTOM slaminum nullum. Ovaricm triloculare. Stigmata tria sessilia. BaCCA monospcrma, 

 (aut profunde triloba trispcrma?). Albumen aequabile. Embryo dorsalis, basin versus (varia indc distautia) positus. 



CAUDEX arundinaceus, amiulatus. FROSDEa terminates et htera/es, j/iiinafo-fissae ret pinnatae, pinnis rkacki 8*6- 

 terticah'ter adnatis, planiusculis. &PADICBS parce et vage ramosi, infra frotulium vaginas langiusculas sessiles, fructiferi 

 coral/ino-ruben/es , rel aurei. Spatuae membra naceae, in apice perfossae spa dice siiccrescente , tandem in ejus peduncido 

 plus minus persistentes, Flores Jtarescentes aut riresce/iles. Fructvh ghbosi aut subglobosi, aut oblongi, minusculi. 



1. CHAMAEDOREA ELATIOR. Tab. 120. Tab. R. Fig. 1. 2. 



C/i. sfolouifera; caudice raginis frondium ci/lindricis subfecfo; pe/ioUs breribiis teretiusculis, pinnis rancinnis ian- 

 ceolati's subfalcatis ufrinque acuminatis; spadicibus simplwiter ramosis, infra J'rondes, foemineis erectis: baccis subg/obosis. 



CRAMAEDOBEA ELATIOR, Mart, in Sclilcclitcndal Linnaca, Journal fur ilie Rotanik. Vol. 5. 1S30. p. 204. 



Radices e basi Candida et stolonum propullulanles, cylindricac, subsimpliccs, pennam cygneam crassac, pallidc 

 tcstaccac, versus apiceni acutiusciiliim albidac, subtilissimc toincntosae, pilis filiforinibus; aliac, quae nltius ex lolls 

 amiulis prorinnpunt, plcrumqiic ciassiores, sacpe quasi vermiformes, testaceo-fuscac aut fulvae, epidenniden apicis 

 dilaccratam, more radiculaniin aercarum, execrncntes; onines demiiin in orbem ex parte epigaeuni eompactae. Cacdex 

 erectus> duodecini pedes tandem alius, rectus aut parum flexuosus, cylindrictis, diainetro pollicari, annulis a lapsu 

 frondium liorizonialibus, duas circiter lineas latis insculptus, inieriiodiis in inferiore parte tiniim polliceni, in supcriorc 

 Ires ad sex longis, vaginis frondium dclapsnriuii persistentibus magna ex parte obvolutiis, epidennidc glabra viridi et 

 piinctis albis adspersa aut albo -viridi ct tandem lutesccntc. In ima basi caudex saepe incrnssaiur in pugni virilis molem, 

 ibique stolones emittit comprcsso-conicos, vestitos vaginis couicis oblique truncatis longitudinaliier nervosis et strialis. 



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