Tas. 6088, 
NUNNEZHARIA (CHamzporzra, A uct.) 
ss GEONOMFORMIS. 
Native of Guatemala. 
Nat. Ord. PALMEZ.—Tribe ARECINER. 
Genus NonnezuartA; Ruiz § Pay —(Caamapvorea, Willd. et auct.). 
Nonnezuanrta (Psilostachys) geonomeformis ; caudice gracili erecto dense 
annulato, foliis erecto-patentibus breviter petiolatis simplicibus obovatis 
apice bipartitis, vaginis brevibus apertis, spadicibus ¢ infra et inter coro- 
nam enatis longe pedunculatis, pedunculo erecto, masculi ramis gracilli- 
mis pendulis densifloris, fl. ¢ compresso-globosis, perianthio exteriore 
annulari brevissimo latissime 3-lobo, interiore e foliolis 8 obovato- 
_ triangularibus, antheris inclusis oblongis, fl. Q scrobiculis spadicis 
suberecti subimmersis depresso-globosis, perianthii foliolis 3 exterioribus 
interiora rotundata ovarium amplectentia subequantibus, staminodiis 
minutissimis, stigmatibus minutissimis exsertis. 
CitaMaporra geonomeformis, Wendland Ind. Palm., p. 12 (1854), et in Otto 
et Dietr. Gartenz., 1852, ex Oecrsted in Palm. Centroamer. in Natur. 
Foren. Vidensk. Meddels,, 1858, p. 24; Oersted, L’Amerig. Centr, 
Fasc. i. p. 14, t. 5 (1858). 
Cu. fenestrata, Hort. Houtt., ex Wendl. Ind. Palm, 12. 
Cu. humilis, Hort. Berlin, ex Wendl. 1.c. 
This little Palm was received at Kew from the Royal 
Gardens of Berlin in 1856, and flowered in the Palm-house 
in May, 1859, and repeatedly since. From its dwarf habit, 
abundant foliage, and graceful male inflorescence, it is one of 
the most elegant of the beautiful genus to which it belongs. 
It is a native of Guatemala, whence it was introduced by 
Warsiewicz, and named by Wendland. Its foliage pre- 
cisely accords with that of a Peruvian congener, the WV. ? geo- 
nomordes, Spruce (Journ. Linn. Soc., vol. xi. p. 122); but the 
flowers are very much larger and widely different. There is 
no question but that, as Mr. Spruce points out, Willdenow’s 
generic name of Chamedorea must give place to the prior one 
MARCH Ist, 1874. 
