neither in flower nor fruit, nor is it accompanied with 
any further description than that of the locality and dis- 
coverers as given above, The leaves are represented as 
divided much more deeply (nearly to the base) than in the 
figure here given, but this deeper division of the leaves 
is : marked feature of immature plants of palmate-leaved 
palms. 
In the meagre description given by Martius, evidently | 
of a young specimen of this species, the trunk is described 
as four to six feet high, covered with fragments of fronds, 
and aculeate towards the top, characters not shown in 
our specimen. (Can the top be an oversight for the 
base?) Dr. Wendland informs me that a specimen in the 
Royal Garden of Herrenhausen flowered there many years 
ago, but did not fruit. Of the Kew plant no history 
is retained, It was no doubt obtained from Belgium soon 
after the importation of seeds half a century ago. It is 
now 27 ft. high, with a girth of trunk 21 ft.; the leaves 
are 5 ft. diam., the petiole 3-4 ft.; the crown of leaves is 
11 ft. diam. The peduncle rachis and branches of the — 
Spadix are pale yellow, the flower a dark creamy pink. 
It flowered in the Palm House of the Royal Gardens in 
November, 1892, 
Fig. 1, flower; 2, petal; 3, st ‘ nae : : 
6, pintiia ~All Ra sir , Stamens; 4, fruit; 5, back view of stamen ; 
