Tas. 6030. 
CHAMAIDOREA TEPEJILOTE. 
Native of Eastern Mewxico. 
Nat. Ord. Patmew,—Tribe ARECINER. 
Genus Cuamaporra, Willd. ; (Endl. Gen. Plant. p. 245). 
Cuamaperra Tepejilote ; caule solitario gracili erecto non radicante, inter- 
nodiis 1—2-pollicaribus, foliis 3—4-pedalibus pinnatis, pinnis multijugis 
ad 1} pedalibus anguste lanceolatis acuminatis leviter falcatis sub 
7-nerviis, spathis numerosis 6—10-pollicaribus laxis viridibus rostrato- 
acuminatis ad medium clausis, spadice ¢ pedunculato curvo nutante, 
pedunculo subcylindraceo, ramis perplurimis pendulis 5-7 -pollicaribus 
teretibus, floribus 6-seriatim dispositis, perianthii segmentis exterioribus 
obsoletis interioribus transverse oblongis, filamentis basi_ liberis, 
antheris obliquis, spadice Q suberecto ramis 6-10 divaricatis cylin- 
draceis quam ¢ brevioribus et strictioribus, floribus semi-immersis, 
perianthio maris. 
Cuamzporea Tepejilote, Liebm. in Mart Hist. Palm., vol. iii. p. 308. 
STEPHANOSTACHYS Tepejilote, Oersted Palme Centroamericane, p. 28, ex 
Natur, Hist. Foren. Vidensk. Meddelels. 1858, an S. Wendlandiana, 
Oersted, 1. c. ? 
A very graceful palm, introduced from Mexico by Wendland 
of Herrenhausen, Hanover, to whom the Royal Gardens are 
indebted for the specimen here figured, which flowered for 
the first time in 1860, and has done so repeatedly since. Itis 
probably the plant described by Oersted as C. (Stephanostachys) 
Wendlandiana, and which was cultivated in the Herrenhausen 
stoves under the name of C. Tenejilote, Liebm., and which 
Oersted distinguishes from that species by the more numerous 
branches of the spadix, longer outer perianth-segments and 
more obtuse inner ones ; but as I am quite unable to discover 
any developed outer perianth, and the plant otherwise agrees 
perfectly with Liebman’s original Herbarium specimen of 
C. Tepejilote, I am obliged to adopt his name, doubting 
greatly the specific distinctness of the two. 
APRIL lst, 1873, 
