Tas. 6644. 
BACULARIA MONOSTACHYA. 
Native of New South Wales. 
Nat. Ord. PALMEx.—Tribe ARECER. 
Genus Bacuraria, F. Muell. ; (Benth. et Hook.f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. ined..) 
Bacunarta monostachya; caudice gracili erecto, foliis gracile petiolatis xequaliter 
pinnati-partitis, segmentis 4—6-jugis lineari-oblongis basi lata oblique insertis, 
oppositis et alternis apice truncatis et inciso-dentatis plicato-nervosis glaberri- 
mis, petiolo basi in vaginam apice 2-lobam dilatato, spadicibus numerosis 
interfoliaceis longe pedunculatis simplicibus gracilibus patenti-recurvis, floribus 
3-nis laxe undique insertis, spatha lineari membranacea completa, fl, masc. 
precocioribus symmetricis ovoideis, sepalis rotundatis, petalis ovatis acutis 
valvatis crasse coriaceis, staminibus 6-10; fl. foem. masculis multo minore 
inter 2 masculis nidulante globoso, sepalis rotundatis, petalis paullo longioribus 
ovatis acutis imbricatis, staminodiis dentiformibus, ovario ovoideo stigmatibus 
3 sessilibus. 
B. monostachya, F. Muell. Fragment. vol. vii. p. 103. 
Linospapix monostachyos, Wendl. et Drude in Linnea, vol. xxxix. p. 198. 
Arxca monostachya, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. vol. iii. p. 178, t. 155, f. 4. 
Kentra monostachya, F. Muell. Fragment. vol. vii. p. 82; Benth. Fl. Austral. 
vol. vii. p. 136. 
One of the smallest Palms of the Old World, confined to 
the East Coast of Tropical Australia, where it inhabits 
humid forests from Northern New South Wales to Cape 
York, and is known by the name of “ The Walking-stick 
Palm,’ in allusion to its slender stem, which attains six to 
eight and even twelve feet high, with a thickness rarely 
exceeding that of the thumb. , From the summit of the 
stem rises a plume of deep green leaves three to five feet in 
diameter, and mixed with these are the numerous slender 
whip-like spadices. Though usually cultivated in a tropical 
house, this Palm succeeds well in a warm greenhouse, 
flowering profusely, but it has never ripened its fruit at 
Kew. The female flowers are extremely minute at the time 
the male are fully developed, being scarcely bigger than a 
pin’s head, and are solitary between every two of the males. 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1882, 
