Tas. 5247, 
MALORTIEA simp.Lex. 
Simple-leaved Malortiea. 
Nat. Ord. Patmacez.—Monecra Hex-DopECcANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. P 
MALorTI£A simplex ; lamina frondium plerumque simplici rare bijuge-pinnati- 
secta oblonga vel elongato-oblonga, apice brevissime bifida utrinque nervis 
primariis circiter 12, margine inferiore integro, superiore grosse dentato, 
dentibus excisis, segmentis compositis omnino adnatis, spadicibus simplici- 
ter pauci-ramosis, staminibus 12. H. Wendl. 
Matortiga simplex. Herm. Wendland in Botanische Zeitung, No. 1 for 1859, 
p. 5. 
* Palma cespitosa, pusilla, gracilis, metrum alta, valde affinis 
Malortiee gracii ; differt lamina frondium simplici rare bijuge- 
pinnatisecta, apice brevissime bifida. Patria Costa Rica orien- 
talis. In hortis colitur.” With the exception of this remark 
and the above specific character, this is all that we can find re- 
lating to this most graceful little Palm. It flowered in our stove 
in February of the present year, 1861; and we owe the posses- 
sion of it to Mr. Hermann Wendland, of the Royal Hanoverian 
Garden of Herrnhausen. Respecting the genus, we can only 
discover a bare mention of the name as the 33rd Genus in 
“Hermann Wendland’s Index Palmarum, Cyclanthearum, Pan- 
danearum, Cycadearum, que in hortis Europzis coluntur, syno- 
nymis gravioribus interpositis,” with no reference to any charac- 
ter or description, and one species is named as belonging to it, 
namely, MW. gracilis, of Herm. Wendland ; and the “synonyma 
graviora” given under it, are “ Chamedorea fenestrata, Hort. 
Parment. ; Chamerops fenestrata, Hort. Amstelod.; and Geonoma 
fenestrata, Hort. Makoy,” but none of these appear to be de- 
scribed or further noticed. 
I feel it better, under such circumstances, to abstain from any 
MAY Ist, 1861. 
