Tas. 7265. 
- .  OAHAMARDOREA stotontrera. 
Vative of South Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. Patmem. Tribe Arecem. 
Genus Cuamazporna, Willd. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 910.) 
CuamazprEa (Collinia) stolonifera; caudice tenui valde stolonifero, foliis 
bifurcatis, laciniis late oblongis margine exteriore superne grosse 
crenato-serratis utrinque 9-nerviis, spadicibus masculis 5-6-ramosis, 
foemineis simplicibus, corolla mascula et foominea trifida brunnea demam 
aurantiaca, fructibus oblongo-globosis. H. Wendl. mss. 
I am indebted to Dr. Wendland for the above diagnosis 
of this previously unpublished species, as the Royal 
Gardens are for the plant figured, which was received from 
Herrenhausen in 1882, and flowered in the tropical Aroid 
house in the spring months. Dr. Wendland refers it to 
his section Collinia (genus of Martius) characterized by the 
flowers of both sexes being trifid with valvate lobes; and 
to which also belongs C. elegans, Mart., figured at Plate 
4845 of this work, a native, like C. stolonifera, of Mexico. 
A striking character of C. stolonifera is its excessively 
stoloniferous habit, resulting in the stems forming dense 
clusters amongst the bases of which the stolons creep, some 
however radiating out horizontally and giving rise to 
young plants at some distance from the old stems, as shown 
in the plate. 
Desor. Stems slender, a yard high, hardly so thick as 
the middle finger, growing in dense tufts with interlaced 
stolons, green, rather closely annulate. Leaves terminal, 
ten inches long, bright green, shortly petioled, obovate in 
outline, cleft to below the midale into two dimidiate-oblong 
subacute nine-nerved many-nervuled segments; outer 
margin of the segments crenately toothed, inner slightly 
convex; petiole one to one and a half inch, slender; sheath 
short. Sypadices infra-foliar; males shorter than the 
leaves, subcorymbosely five to six-branched ; branches 
three to five inches long, spreading and flexuous, green ; 
NovemMBER Ist, 1892. 
