and it is to be noted that the most familiar Chiapas is the 
Mexican state which lies immediately to the north-east of 
Guatemala. When it was first introduced to cultivation 
small plants of C. glaucifolia were much in request as table 
plants and for other decorative purposes. The leaflets of 
C. glaucifolia bear some resemblance to those of C. elegans, 
Mart., a species which, however, belongs to the section 
Collinia, in which the petals are more extensively united 
than in Huchamaedorea, to which section Wendland has 
referred our plant, and with which, as regards its floral 
characters, it better agrees. It has, however, to be 
remarked that in Huchamaedorea most of the species have 
broad leaflets tapering to both ends and have the leaflets 
approximated in groups, a feature which is not very con- 
spicuous in C. glaucifolia. 
_ Descriprion.—Shrub; stem erect, slender, reaching 15 ft. 
in height, distantly annulate. Leaves ascending below, 
spreading towards the apex, glaucescent, shortly sheathing ; 
leaflets about 40 on each side, rather irregularly set, linear- 
lanceolate, very long acuminate, about [4 in. long, § in. 
wide, thickened at the insertion, midrib prominent; rhachis 
Sharply angled above, convex beneath ; petiole channelled 
above, convex beneath. Panicles l-sexual, dioecious, the 
males 16 in. long, their branches 8 in, long; spathes 
oblong, acuminate, 10 in. long, 1 in. wide, glabrous. 
Male: Culyx 1 lin, long, cupular, shortly bluntly toothed, 
with brown edges. Corolla sessile, 23 lin. long, 3-lobed 
almost to the base; lobes fleshy, acute, concave, valvate. 
Stamens 6, rather shorter than the corolla; filaments stout, 
triangular, about as long as the anthers, Rudimentary 
ovary columnar, 3-lobed, larger than the stamens. Female : 
Calyx and corolla as in the male flower. Staminodes 0. 
Ovary triangular, 14 lin, long and about as much across; 
stigmas 3, short, recurved. fruiting panicles with coral- 
red branches and calyces. Fruit globose, over } in. in 
diameter, black, polished. Seeds elob aah ae 
testa reticulate. r globose, raphe conspicuous ; 
Fig. 1, male flowers; 2, a male fl i 
? 8; ower, one petal removed, showing anthers 
Bp miaey ovary ; 3, anther; 4, rudimentary ovary; 5, a female flower; 
hi 2 ps one petal removed, showing the ovary; 7, transverse section of 
vary; 8 and 9, secds :—al/ enlarged except 8, which is of natural size. 
