•Tab. 7345. 

 PTYCHOSPERMA elegans. 



Native of tropical Australia. 



Nat. Ord. Palsce. — Tribe Arece^e. 

 Genoa Ptychospeema, Labill. ; (Benth, & Hook.f. Gen. Plant, vol. iii. p. 891. 



Ptychosperma elegans; caudice mediocri annulato laBvi, foliis 6-7-pedalibus 

 multifoliolatis, foliolis 2-pedalibas elongato-ensiformibus uni-costatis 

 apice angustatis acutis uno latere dentatis, petiolo brevi supra concavo 

 aubtus convexo margine sulcato, spadice snpra-foliaceo subbipedali 

 latiore quam longo breviter pedunoulato patulo, ramis patulis divisis, 

 rachi compressa, ramulis spicisve fere pedalibus gracilibas cylindraceis, 

 floribaa ternis intermedio fcBmineo ; fl. masc. oblongis, sepalis orbiculari- 

 bus petalis lineari-oblongis pluries brevioribus, staminibus nuruerosis, 

 filamentis gracilibas, stylodio gracili ; fl. fcem. depresao-hemisphericis, 

 sepalis late reniformibus accrescentibaa, petalisque rotundatis imbricatis, 

 staminodiis minimis, ovario oblongo 1-loculari, stigmatibua 3 sessilibus, 

 fructu parvo ovoideo-oblongo calyce accreto insidente, albumine grosse 

 ruminate-. 



P. elegans, Blume Rumphia, vol. ii. p. 118. Benth. Fl. Austral, vol. vii. 

 p. 141. 



P. Seaforthia, Miq. Fl. Ind. Bat. iii. 21. 



?P. Capitis Yorki, Wendl. & Drude in Linnsea, vol. xxxix. p. 217. 



Seaforthia elegans, Br. Prodr. p. 267. Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. vol. iii. p. 181, 

 t. 105, 106, 109 {not Bot. Mag. t. 4961.*) 



Pinanga, Smithii, Hort. 



Ptychosperma elegans is a native of the tropical east 

 coast of Australia, and some of its outlying islands, from 

 Sandy Isld. in lat. 25 S. to Cape York (the extreme north 

 of the continent) in lat. 11° N. It was discovered by Sir 

 Joseph Banks during Cook's first voyage in 1770, at the 

 mouth of the Endeavour River, and his specimens are now 

 in the British Museum. It is possible that more than one 

 species is included under the name, for my friend Dr. Wend- 

 land, in answer to a request of mine for any information 

 he might be able to give me regarding Pinanga Smithii, 

 observes that Ptychosperma elegans, Mart, is a very tall- 

 growing palm, and must be different from Pinanga Smithii. 

 On the other hand, Mueller (Fragmenta, vol. v. p. 48) 



* Which is a good figure of P. Alexandra, with the fruit of P. eltgnns 

 copied from Martins. 



masch 1st, lay-i. 



