Peru. Several have been figured in this work, amongst 
them C. tenella, Wendl. (Nunnezharia tenella, Hook. f., 
tab. 6584), which is one of the smallest palms known, and 
produces fruit when only seven inches high. Most of the 
plants have slender, solitary stems, but C. stolonifera, 
Wendl. (tab. 7265) sends out stolons from which young 
plants arise close to their parent. The flowers and also 
the spadix are sometimes of a bright orange-red, which 
contrasts well with the dark green of the leaves, which in 
C. Hrnesti-Augusti, Wendl. (tab. 4831), and a few other 
species are broad and simply two-lobed. 
Descr.—A slender palm. Stem erect, about eight feet 
high, naked, the annular scars of fallen leaves about 
one inch apart. Leaves forming a terminal crown, nearly 
erect, about four feet long; petiole about a foot and a 
half long, smooth, concave, with a_central ridge above, 
convex beneath, sheathing at the base; rhachis slightly 
elevated, with an obtuse ridge above, convex beneath; 
leaflets in about thirty pairs, linear-lanceolate, central 
ones one foot long, the larger nine lines wide, but usually 
much narrower, slightly scaly near the base of the main 
nerves on the upper side; nerves slender, about three 
more prominent than the rest. Male panicle from between 
the leaves, mach branched, loose, finely powdered; ultimate 
branches ten inches long; peduncle about two feet long ; 
basal sheaths four or five, scarious. Calyz tripartite ; lobes 
broadly ovate, with membranous, purple margins. Corolla 
stalked, pale yellow, globose ; lobes triangular, one-quarter 
the length of the tube. Filaments free less than half-way 
down; anther-cells slightly divergent at the base. Ovary 
rudimentary, ovoid, longer than the stamens ; style short, 
thick ; stigma three-lobed. Female inflorescence unknown. 
We DH. 
Fig. 1, part of ¢ inflorescence ; 2, corolla-lobes ; 3, sta 
ovary; 4, the same in Wogiendiaal section ; 5, anther; 
reduced) :—all except 1 and 6 enlarged. 
mens and rudimentary 
6, whole plant (much 
