Tas. 6838, 
CHAMAIDOREA Arensurarana. 
Native of Guatemala. 
Nat. Ord. Patmex.—Tribe ARECINER. 
Genus Caammporza, Wendl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 910.) 
CaimMmporeEA (Stephanostachys) Arenbergiana; palma gracilis, caule erecto 
solitario remote annulato, foliis maximis pinnatis, vaginis longissimis cylin- 
dricis, pinnis multijugis 1-14-pedalibus e basi lata oblongo-lanceolatis attenuato- 
acuminatis multicostatis, spathis plurimis 6-10-pollicaribus arcte sese appressis 
apicibus erectis lineari-oblongis obtusis viridibus striatis vaginam pedalem 
efformantibus, spadicibus infra foliaceis, masculis brevissime pedunculatis 
subumbellatim ramosis, pedunculo spathis omnino occluso, ramis_ effusis 
pedalibus crassitie digiti minoris cylindraceis stramineis, femineis 6-pollicaribus 
simplicibus suberectis femineis paullo crassioribus; fl. mas. calyce minimo 
3 dentato, corolle segmentis orbiculatis concavis convolutivo-imbricatis, 
antherarum loculis brevibus divaricatis, pistillodio columnari obscure 3-lobo; 
fl. fem. petalis latioribus transverse oblongis concavis, staminodiis 0, ovario 
subgloboso 3-lobo, stigmatibus 3 parvis trigonis acutis. 
CH. Dragged pica Wendl. Ind. Palm.66. Kerch. de Denterg. Les Palmiers, p. 75, 
g. 33. 
Cu. latifrons vel latifolia, Hort. 
SparnascapHE Arenbergiana, Girst. Palm. Centramer. in Vidensk. Meddel. Nat. 
For. Kjobenhav. 1858, p. 30, and L’ Amerique centrale, t. 7, fig. 29-37. 
A very elegant Palm, about five and a half feet high, with 
acrown of leaves composed of numerous regularly pinnated 
leaflets.. It belongs to the large genus Chamedorea, which 
has its headquarters in the hot regions of Central America, 
very few being found in the Andean region south of it, or in 
Brazil. C. Arenbergiana is nearly allied to C. Tepejilote, 
figured at Plate 6030 of this work, but is a much larger 
plant, with broader leaflets, a more exserted male spadix, 
with much longer, thicker and paler branches; this further 
differs in the distinctly developed calyx and considerably 
larger flowers. 
The Royal Gardens are indebted to Mr. Wendland, of 
Herrenhausen, for living plants of this beautiful Palm, 
which were received in 1879; it flowers in the month of 
March. 
_ Descr. Caudex five and a half feet high, green, ringed at 
ocr. Isr, 1885. 
