rachis is alveolate, and the margin of each alveole is woolly : the 
flowers are all sessile or a little sunk in the alveoles. Mate 
FLOWER :—Calyx minute, trifid. Corolla tripartite; the seg- 
ments ovate. Stamens six, inserted on the corolla. Fidaments 
subulate. Azther oblong, scarcely exserted : in the centre is the 
rudiment of an ovary. Femate rLowsr :—Calya minute, three- 
lobed, and, as well as the tripartite corolla, clothed with ap- 
pressed acicular prickles. Ovary ovate, similarly aculeate : style 
short : stigma trifid. Fruit an obovate, almost orange-coloured 
drupe, with a beaked apex, everywhere echinated with sharp 
black spreading aculei. 
Fig. 1. Male flower. 2. Female flower :—magnified. 3. Fruit :—natural 
size, The figure in the background is a much reduced plant of Astrocaryum 
rostratum. 
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