Tas. 6584. 
NUNNEZHARIA TENELLA. 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. Patmem.—Tribe ARECINEX. 
Genus Nunnezuaria, Ruiz et Pav.; (Prodr. 147, p. 31.) 
Nunnezuanta tenella; pygmea, dioica, caudice gracile stricto erecto, foliis obovato- 
oblongis apice 2-fidis lobis acutis convexis marginibus recurvis obscure crenato- 
serratis, nervis utrinque 8-10 profunde impressis, een brevi, vagina pollicari, 
spadicibus simplicibus gracilibus elongatis pendulis, feemineis gracilioribus 
laxius floriferis, spatha basilari pedunculo gracili multo breviore ceteris brevibus 
lanceolatis, floribus masculis oblongo obovoideis in spicam elongatam dispositis, | 
sepalis brevissimis multo longioribus quam latis, petalis obovatis basi connatis 
apicibus coherentibus marginibus supra basin remotis, staminibus 6 basi 
petalorum insertis, filamentis subulatis, antheris oblongis, ovarii rudimento 
columnari, floribus feemineis globosis calyce maris, petalis orbiculatis concavis 
late imbricatis, staminodiis minutis, ovario globoso 3-loculari, stigmatibus 
brevissimis, baccis pisiformibus glaberrimis luride viridibus. 
Cuamxporea tenella, Wendl. in Gartenflora, 1880, p. 102. 
This is perhaps the smallest known Palm. Our male 
‘specimen is exactly nine inches high; and the female seven, 
yet it ripened its fruit well. It belongs to a section of 
the genus with the sexes on different plants, but of all 
the subgenera or tribes, described as genera by Cirsted, 
I cannot refer it to any. : 
I regret having to give the clumsy name of Nunnezharva 
the preference over the well-known and more euphonious 
‘one of Chamedorea, but as it has the priority by nearly 
thirty years, and the genus is extremely well described 
under that name by the learned author of the Flora of 
Peru and Chili, no other course is open to me; Willdenow 
indeed reduced it for euphony’s sake to Nunnezia, but no 
author has followed him. Nunnezharia tenella was intro- 
duced from Mexico into the Botanic Garden of Zurich by 
M. Ortegris, and from thence into the Royal Botanic Gardens 
of Herrenhausen, in Hanover, by Dr. Wendland, to whom 
the Royal Gardens of Kew are indebted for the specimens 
OCTOBER Ist, 1881]. 
