Tap. 7302. 
ACANTHORHIZA acunBata, 
Native of Mexico. 
Nat. Ord. Patma.—Tribe CoryPHE, 
Genus Acantuoruiza, Wendl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 925). 
Acanruorniza, aculeata; arborea, trunco basi radicibus wreis spinosis 
instructo annulato apice folioso, foliis patulis orbicularibus sinu basi 
angusto ad trientem partem plicato-multifidis lete viridibus subtus 
albescentibus, lobis ensiformibus acutis v. apice 2-3-fidis 5-costatis et 
multinerviis subdecurvis sinubus angustis nudis v. filiferis ligula late 
ovata obtusa concava crassa, petiolo laminz subequilongo biconvexo, 
marginibus subacutis, vagina brevi fibrosa, spadice decurvo compresso 
breviter pedunculato paniculatim ramoso, rachi ramisque brevibus crassis, 
spathis 3-4 elongatis albis deciduis, floribus pallidis dense spicatis 
crasse coriaceis, calycis lobis erectis oblongis obtusis, petalis calyci eequi- 
longis orbicularibus concavis, filamentis subulatis crassis basi connatis, 
antheris oblongo-lanceolatis patenti-recurvis, ovariis anguste ovoideis in 
stylos zequilongos erectos attenuatis. 
A. aculeata, H. Wendl. ex André in Illustr. Hortic. vol. xxvi., p. 185, t. 367; 
et in Kerchove Les Palmiers, p. 230. Hemsl. in Biol. Centr. Amer. 
Bot. iii. 411. 
Trithrinax aculeata, Liebm. ex Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. vol. iii. p- 320. 
Chamezrops stauracantha, Hort. Belg. ew Linden Cat., et Heynh, Nomene, vol. 
ii. p, 136, ' 
A very handsome palm discovered by M. M, Linden and 
Funck in 1840 in the Forests of Chiapas, Tabasco Pro- 
vince of S.E. Mexico, on mountains of 2-3000 ft. eleva- 
tion, and introduced into Europe by M. Linden. It has 
also been found by Liebmann in Western Mexico, in Bamboo 
jungles in a calcareous soil between La Galera and Po- 
chutla, and in woods near San Miguel del Puerto with 
Chamedorea pochutlensis, neither of which localities have I 
been able to identify. It belongs to a small genus of six or 
Seven species, all natives of Mexico, Central America and 
Guatemala, and remarkable for the rigid spmous adventi- 
tious roots that are thrown out from the base of the 
trunk, and in young plants for several feet upwards. The 
figure in the Tlustration Horticole is of a young plant 
JuLy Ist, 1893. 
