fegments ligulate-attenuated, complicate, fhortly bifid radiate- 

 divergent, fometimes with loofe threads intermingled; flower- 



jlem 3 — 5 feet high, axillary fubgeniculately-flexuofe upright, 

 fheathed its whole length by many fingle alternate clofely em- 

 bracing membranous fpathes> each equalling its internode; 



fpadixes many, alternate, patently paniculate, numeroufly 

 flowered, i filling laterally from the upper fpathes; brafics broad 

 exceedingly Ihort, denticulate, fingle ; fegments of the calyx 

 roundifh concave, of the corolla rather larger, whitifh, oblong 

 obtufe, patent; filame nts fubulate, length of the flower; anthers 

 fagittate incumbent; piftil rather fhorter; drupe, according to 

 Jacquin, about the fize of a pea, black, and of a fweetifh 

 tafte. Of very flow growth; native of Carolina and Georgia; 

 alio, according to the infeription on a fpecimen in the Bankfian 

 herbarium communicated by Mr. De Ponthieu, of our 

 Weft-Indian iflands. Monfieur Guersent fays, that it 

 cannot be a fpecies of Coryph a, which has 1 germen, 1 ftyl e > 

 and a feed with a cavity in the albumen ; nor Euterpe, which 

 has a monoicous inflorefcence ; nor Chamjerops, in which 

 this is polygamous. 



We are far too (lightly acquainted with this tribe of 

 vegetables to be able to judge of the folidity of fuch generic 

 diftinftions. It has been claffed by Willdenow under 

 Polygamia Moncecia, in oppofition to the defcriptions of other 

 Botanifts. 



Our drawing was made from a plant that flowered this 

 rummer in the greenhoufe of Meffrs. Loddigss, at Hackney. 



G. 



