520 PALiLE. 



21. B. acanthocnemis, Mart. Trunk "low (3'-4' high), arundinaceous," prickly at 

 the leaf-sheaths ; prickles long-setaceous, black ; leaves 2-fd-entire or irregularly cut into 

 2-3 segments on one or both sides : divisions broadly oblong or narrow, if cut, curved-acute, 

 with a few marginal prickles or bristles below the point, flat at the adnate base, curved- 

 diverging in an acute angle : petiole prickly at the base j spathe unarmed, glabrescent, 

 spreading from the axil. — Allied to the preceding : spadix probably simple, but abortive in 

 our specimens ; segments of the 2-fid leaf 1' long, 4"-5" broad, in the cut leaf often distant, 

 3"-10"' broad: prickles 10"'-6'", petiole 6"-8", spathe 3" long: no peduncle.— Hab. 

 Trinidad!, Pd. ; [Guiana]. 



22. B. Pavoniana, Mart. " Trunk low ;" leaves pinnatisect : segments numerous, 

 grass-like, linear-acuminate or the uppermost broader by cohesion, glaucous and minutely 

 puberulous or glabrescent beneath, approximate, subequidistant, reduplicate at the base : 

 rhachis armed with very long black prickles and rare bristles, keeled above. — Flowers un- 

 known ; leaf-segments (in our specimens, which are cut off, perhaps about the middle of the 

 rhachis) more than 30-jugal, 3"'-6"' distant, 12"-8" long, 4"'-2"' broad, superior gradually 

 shorter, the uppermost cohering ones sometimes 6'"— 8'" broad : prickles scattered or clustered, 

 slender, the greatest 2" long. — Hab. Antigua!, Wullschl., Blubber valley ; [Portorico]. 



23. B. Plumieriana, Mart. Trunk "csespitose (12'-40' high)," densely annulate 

 with rings of long prickles : all prickles black ; leaves rosular at the summit of the trunk, 

 pinnatisect -. segments lanceolate-linear, acuminate, reduplicate at the transverse base, gla- 

 brous, inferior approximate in clusters, superior subequidistant, the young armed with small 

 prickles : rhachis densely prickly ; exterior spathe one-third to one-fourth as long as the in- 

 terior, armed with accumbeut, short prickles, the interior (l'-2' long) densely covered with 

 long spreading or recurved prickles, tioice as long as the spadix ; spadix branched : its pe- 

 duncle very prickly ; exterior $ perigone minute, much shorter than the interior ; drupe de- 

 pressed-globose (5'" diam.). — Cocos guineensis, L. {ex syn. St.), Sto. B. minor, Sw. (non 

 Jacq.). — Trunk (in the Kew museum) about 3" thick -. the rings of prickles at intervals of 

 about 6'" throughout its length ; prickles of the leaf-rhachis 6'", of the peduucles, the ex- 

 terior spathe and the leaf-segments 3"'-4'", of the interior spathe 2"-3"' long, the latter very 

 unequal ; leaf-segments 2' long, 1" broad ; spadix -branches 6"-3", inner ? perigone 2'" long. 

 — Hab. Jamaica !, Pd., common in the inland woods, Manchester ; [Cuba ! to French islauds]. 



The following fragments of the same or an allied Bactris, sent from Jamaica as B. major, 

 Jacq., deserve a notice: — 1. Mr. Wilson's specimen of a spathe, 7"-8" long: its black 

 prickles densely parallel, spreading, subequal, 4"'-6'" long ; ? interior perigone 3-4 times as 

 long as the repand, exterior one. 2. Leaf-segments (sent by Mr. March) 2£' long, 16'" 

 broad, with persistent, 2'" long, setaceous prickles on the margin and midrib, confined chiefly 

 to its acuminate part. 



24. B. Cuesa, Cr. ms. (n. sp.). Prickles black; leaves large, pinnatisect: segments 

 broadly lanceolate-linear, shortly acuminate, reduplicate at the obliquely adnate base, gla- 

 brescent, with small, distant, marginal bristles towards the top, unequidistant : 4-5 equi- 

 distant in each special series: rhachis prickly, broad, keeled above ; iuner spathe (H' long), 

 covered with recurved or diverging prickles, shortly exceeding the spadix ; spadix densely 

 branched: its peduncle prickly ; exterior £ perigone short, ?>-phyllous, <j> half as long as the 

 interior ; drupe (young) ovoid-globose. — Prickles 8"'-2'" long, setaceous ; leaf-segments 3 

 long, 20"'-18"' broad at the middle, double basilar insertion-line 6"'-4"', rhachis gradually 

 tapering upwards, inferior part 8'" broad ; rhachis of the spadix 6" long above the peduncle, 

 branches 6"-4" long ; exterior £ perigone %'" long : leaflets reniform, interior ones ovate- 

 oblong, 2'" long, equalling the 6 stamens : rudiment of the pistil subsdobose ; exterior ? pe- 

 rigone truncate, 1"' long, interior minutely 3-dentate, 2"' long, devoid of sterile $ parts. — 

 Hab. Trinidad !, Cr., at Maracas, Maraval. 



Sect. 2. Augfstiwea, Karst. (Syn. Ooearpse, Mart.).— Rhachis of the spadix reduced: 

 branches fascicled at the top of its peduncle. — Leaves pinnatisect : segments equi- 

 distant. 



25. B. Crnegeriana, Gr. and Wendl. (n. sp.). Prickles black ; leaf-segments broadly 

 lanceolate-linear, shortly acuminate, reduplicate-concave at the obliquely adnate base, gla- 

 brescent, with small accumbent bristles along the margin, and a few on the midrib above 



