almost filamentous prolongation. Spathes several upon 
the tree at a time, solitary in the axils of the lowest leaves, 
exposed only when the leaf falls, coriaceo-ligneous, bival- 
vular, brown externally, yellow within, glabrous, decid- 
uous; outer valve bifid and two edged, obliquely open at 
the apex, closed below, but afterwards splitting to its base 
along the lower side; znner valve narrow-lanceolate, acu- 
minate, subcompressed, without wings, attached to the 
spadix (about an inch and a half) above the outer, and 
thrice as long as it, everywhere closed, but afterwards 
splitting along the whole of the lower side to permit the 
escape of the spadix. Spadix as long as the inner valve, 
rising from a turgid, dark brown, and cracked base, which 
becomes slender as it passes round two-thirds of the stem, 
much branched and attenuated upwards, branches at the 
base subarticulate and swollen, spreading, both while in 
flower and fruit, at right angles, attenuated to their apices. 
Flowers very numerous, and as well as the whole spadix 
(except its dilated base) white and glabrous, scattered, 
generally in pairs, unisexual, a staminiferous and pistilli- 
ferous flower being generally together and indented into 
the spadix, the former opening freely and deciduous, the 
latter later and never fully. Perianth double, coriace- — 
ous ; calyx triphyllous ; corolla three-petaled, imbricated. 
Male flower, calyx small, segments keeled ; petals ovato- 
elliptical ; stamens six, equal in length to the corolla, fila- 
ments fleshy, slightly imbricated, dilated and cohering at 
the base, anthers ovato-oblong, pollen white ; pistil abortive, 
conical, three-dentate, teeth erect. _ Female flower sur- 
rounded by a small, membranous, persistent, monophyllous 
bractea ; calyx larger than in the male: petals broadly 
ovate, adpressed to the germen, even after the apex of this 
is thrust beyond them ; sfamens 10 by far the greater num- 
ber of flowers altogether wanting, or, two or more, more 
or less imperfect, and that as far as I have observed only 
towards the apex of the branches of the spadix, where the 
flowers are occasionally solitary ; germen ovate, its apex at 
length protruded a little beyond the adpressed petals, one — 
cell only develloped ; stagmata three, sessile, small, sub- 
acute, spreading ; ovulum rounded, single in the base of 
the ovary, but attached laterally. Graham. 
saint snammmsan ae 
Tab. 3874 represents a flowering plant of EuTERPE montana on a very 
Soden copie rom a drawing by ‘Dr. Grevitte. Fig. 1. Renne make. 
-. Spadix and inner Spathe. 3. Branch of the Spadix, with male and 
female Flowers; nat. size. 4. 9. Male Flowers. 6. Female ditto ; mag 
nified. 7. Portion of the Branch of a Spadix with Fruit; nat. size. 
Single Fruit; magnified. 
