Tas. 7959. 
CHAM ADOREA PULCHELLA. 
Native of Tropical America. 
Nat. Ord. Pata —Tribe AnEces. | 
Genus CuamaporeEa, Willd.; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 910.) 
Cuamaporea (Collinia) pudchella; palma gracilis, caule erecto nudo annulato, 
foliis in caulis apice confertis erecto-patentibus 4-pedalibus, petiolis 
sesquipedalibus levibus, supra concavis linea media elevata instructis, 
subtus convexis, foliolis utraque circa 30 lineari-lanceolatis ad 1 ped. 
longis et 9 lin. latis ad basin nervoram in facie superiore sparse squamatis, 
nervis 3 quam reliquis crassioribus, paniculis ¢ interfoliaceis laxe ramosis 
minute pulveralentis, ramulis ultimis 10 poll. longis, pedunculis circa 
2 ped. longis, spathis basalibus 4-5, scariosis, calycis lobis late ovatis 
marginibus membranaceis purpureis, corollis stipitatis dilute luteis, 
globosis, lobis triangularibus quam tubo quarta parte brevioribus, 
staminum tubo quam parte libera longiore, antherarum loculis basi 
paulo divergentibus, ovarii radimento ovoideo quam staminibns longiore, 
stylo brevi crasso, stigmate trilobo, inflorescentia ? ignota. 
C. pulchella, L. Linden in Cat. Plant. Comp. Cont. Hort. 1885, p. 4. 
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This palm was distributed in 1885 by the Compagnie — 
Continentale d’Horticulture, from which a _ plant was 
obtained for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, where it 
flowered in 1891, and again in the autumn of 1903; the 
naked part of the stem having in the meanwhile increased 
from about nine inches to eight feet in height. The native - 
country of this species is not known, but most of its 
allies come from the Central American region. In habit 
and in the texture of the leaflets it resembles C. schiedeana,. 
Mart., from which it differs in having narrower and 
straighter leaflets. The globose, trifid corolla places it 
in the section Collinia. 
About seventy species have been described in the genus 
Chamedorea, some of which have been subsequently 
separated to found new genera, based chiefly upon the 
character of the corolla, which varies from deeply lobed 
and widely expanded to very shortly lobed and 
nearly globose, and from sessile to stipitate. These 
characters, however, are generally regarded as insufficient 
to maintain such genera. The species inhabit the 
western side of tropical America, from South Mexico to 
JUNE lst, 1904. 
