Tas. 4831. 
CHAMAEDOREA Ernesti-Avcusti (ram.). 
Firnest-Augustus’ Chamedorea (female). 
Nat. Ord. ParmMace2.—~Diacia HEXANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Flores dioici, in spadice ramoso sessiles, ebracteati. Spathe 
plures, membranaceze, compress, persistentes—Masc. Calyx exterior cupu- 
laris, 3-lobus ; interior 3-sepalus ; sepalis rotundatis, erecto-conniventibus, pre- 
floratione valvatis. Stamina 6, e fundo calycis; filamenta teretia, brevia; an- 
there lineati-oblonge. Ovarii rudimentum.—Fam. Calyx exterior cupularis, 
tripartitus ; interior ut in mase. y. tridentatus (Mart.). Staminum radimenta 
nulla. Ovarium 3-loculare. Stigmata 3, sessilia, parva, acuta. Bacca 1-sperma 
(aut profunde triloba, trisperma? Mart.). Albumen xquabile, corneum. Hm- 
éryo dorsalis, basim versus situs (lateralis, Endl.).—Palme minores. Caudex 
arundinaceus, annulatus. Frondes terminales vel laterales, pinnatifisse v. pinnate ; 
pinnis rachi subverticaliter adnatis, planiusculis ; petiolis vaginantibus. Spadices 
sparsi et vage ramosi (ramis ¢eretibus), infra, rarius inter frondium vaginas lon- 
giusculas sessiles ; fructiferi corallino-rubentes vel aurei. Spathze membranacee, 
spadice increscente apice perfosse, in ejus pedunculo magis minusve persistentes. 
Flores flavescentes et virescentes. Bacce globose vel subglobose, parce carnose, 
minuscule. Kth. (ex Mart. et Endl.) 
Cuamaporea Frnesti-Augusti (fem.); candice 3—5-pedali arundinaceo annu- 
lato erecto basi radicante apice dilatato folioso, foliis petiolatis cireumscrip- 
tione obovatis basi cuncatis profunde bifidis margine seepissime grosse ser- 
ratis raro subincisis, petiolis folio brevioribus basi insigniter dilatatis am- 
plexantibus, pedunculis axillaribus petiolum superantibus solitariis inferne 
sénsim angustioribus erectis, spathis 3-4 vaginatis persistentibus, spadice 
pedali et ultra cylindraceo coriaceo-carnoso demum coccineo, calyce albo 
primum immerso, petalis coccineis. 
Coammporea Ernesti-Augusti. Wendland in Allgemeine Gartenzeit., March, 
1852, No.10. Hjusd. Index Palmar. p. 12. 
Notwithstanding the invaluable labours of a Martius, the study 
of the Palms is still attended with great difficulties ; nor is this 
to be wondered at, when it is considered how few, like Martius, 
have the opportunity of studying them in their native countries, 
and of observing their various phases in the form of leaf, etc., at 
various periods of their growth, or arising from different locali- 
FEBRUARY lst, 1855. 
