Tas. 5782. 
GEON OMA GHIESBRECHTIANA. 
Ghiesbrecht’'s Geonoma. 
Nat. Ord. Patmacez.—Mona@cia HEXANDRIA. 
Gen. Char, Flores moneci in eodem vel in distinctis spadicibus, rarius 
diceci, in alveolis rhacheos immersi, feminei singulatim, masculi per 
binos vel ternos. Spatha duplex (rarissime triplex) ; exterior truncata, 
incompleta, concava; interior compressa vel fusiformis. Masco. Calyx 
uterque 3-sepalus ; sepalis exterioribus carinato-concavis ; interioribus 
planis. Stamina 6; filamenta inferne in cylindrum connata, apice libera; 
anthere loculis divaricatis. Ovarii rudimentum. FEM. Calyx exterior 
3-sepalus; interior trifidus. Urceolus stamineus cylindraceus, 6-den- 
tatus, ovarium ambiens, antheris destitutus. Ovarium 3-loculare. 
Stylus basilaris. Stigmata 3, subulata, revoluta. Bacca 1-sperma. 
Albumen squabile, corneum. Embryo sublateralis vel basilaris.— 
Palme sylvas primevas incolentes. Caudex arundinaceus, gracilis, 
strictus, annulatus, levigatus, rarius nullus. Frondes primum simplices, 
moa in pinnas irregulares integerrimas planiusculas viz reduplicatas jisse 
(pinnatifisse), petioles vaginantes, partim caudici lateraliter insidentes 
vel omnes terminales. Spadices inter frondes emergentes, spicati sepiusve 
paniculati, Spathe ut plurimum jam ante anthesin obliterate (fibroso- 
secedentes). Flores primum in rhacheos alveolis latentes, sub anthest 
emersi, straminei vel purpurascentes. Bacce ovate vel subglobose, coloris 
obscuri, nitide, parce carnosa, insipide.—Kuntu, Enum. Plant. iii. 228. 
Gronoma Ghiesbrechtiana ; caudice brevi aut subnullo; frondibus elongato- 
ovatis, 6 (9)-juge pinnatisectis, petiolo longo, segmentis inqualibus, 
oppositis suboppositisve, remotiusculis, alternatim anguste lateque 
lanceolatis, longissime acuminatis falcatis, duobus superioribus in 
quovis latere latissimis ; spadicibus simplicibus, thachi cylindrica 
obtusa, alveolis margine nonnihil revolutis, integerrimis, septem-novem- 
fariam imbricatis.—(Lind. et Wend.) 
Gronoma GuiEsBRecHTIANA.— Linden et Wendland in Linnea, xxviii. (1856) 
343. 
Catyprrogrne Gutesprecutiana.— Wendland in Bot. Zeitung, xvii. (1859) 
72. 
This very ornamental Palm is figured from specimens 
flowered in the Royal Gardens, Kew, where it has been in 
i introduced to 
cultivation several years. It was originally 
continental gardens from Chiapas, Mexico, by Ghiesbrecht. 
Dr. Wendland, who first described the species, and to whom 
suLy Ist, 1869. 
