that here represented, flowered in the Palm House in 
February, 1901. Its height to the bases of the leaves is 
sixteen feet, to the top of the crown twenty-four. 
Descr.—A noble palm, attaining, in its native country, 
sixty feet in height, with a straight annulate trunk, two 
to three feet in girth towards the base, where, above 
ground, it emits stout, spinous supporting roots. Leaves 
ten to twelve feet long, shortly petioled, linear-oblong, 
spreading and recurved, pinnatisect ; leaflets very many, 
close-set equidistantly, two feet long by about two and a 
half inches broad, narrowed from the middle to the acumi- 
nate tip, costate, and eight to ten-nerved, bright green 
above, pale yellow-green beneath; petiole and rhachis 
sub-trigonous, with a flattened upper surface and rounded 
under. Spadiz maturing several nodes below the lowest 
leaf, shortly peduncled, erect, ovoid; branches close-set, 
eight to ten inches long, slender, strict, erecto-patent, 
suddenly swollen above the base into a gibbus an inch in 
diameter, white, scarlet when fruiting. Spathes two, oblong, 
much shorter than the spadix. Flowers sessile, scattered in 
threes along the branches of the spadix, each three con- 
sisting of two males, about an eighth of an inch long, and 
an intermediate minute female ; upper flowers on the branch 
solitary, male. Bracts and bracteoles minute. Male fl. 
symmetric, sepals minute, trigonous ; petals oblong, obtuse, 
valvate; stamens 6; pistillode trifid. Fem. jl. ovoid; 
sepals of male; petals imbricate ; ovary ovoid, one-celled, 
crowned by a sessile ovoid stigma; ovule solitary, parietal. 
Fruit globose, half an inch in diameter, stigma lateral.— 
J.D. H. 
Fig. 1, portions of spatne and spadix with ¢ and 9 flowers; 2, stamens; 
3, pistillodium ; 4, 2 flower with calyx removed; 5, ovary ; 6, vertical section 
of ovary; 7, fruiting branch of spadix; 8, fruit with remains of periauth ; 
= ig — of fruit; 10, embryo :—all except 7 enlarged; 11, reduced 
