PALMA. 401 
1. EUTERPE. 
Euterpe, Geertn. Fruct. i. p. 24 (excl. citat. Rumphii), t. 9. fig. 3; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iti 
p. 896. 
About eight species are known; they inhabit Tropical America and the West Indies. 
1. Euterpe leucospadix, Wendl. ined.? 
GUATEMALA, near Yzabal (Wendland). Hb. Kew. 
2. Kuterpe longepetiolata, Girst. in Vidensk. Meddel. 1858, p. 32. 
Costa Rica, eastern declivity of the Cordillera, in the neighbourhood of Turrialba, at 
an altitude of 3000 feet (@rsted). 
3. Euterpe macrospadix, CErst. in Vidensk. Meddel. 1858, p. 31. 
NicaRaava, in the primeval forests on the banks of the San Juan, near Sarapiqui 
(Grsted). 
2. OREODOXA. 
Oreodoxa, Willd. in Mem. Acad. Berl. 1804, p. 34; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 899. 
A wholly Tropical-American genus of five described species. 
1. Oreodoxa regia, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. et Sp.i. p. 305; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 
iii. p. 168, t. 156; Kunth, Enum. Pl. iii. p. 182; Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 517; 
Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald,’ p. 203. 
PANAMA, common about Cruces, Gorgona, and San Juan (Seemann).—CuBa, ANTIaUA, 
and other West-Indian Islands. 
3. SOCRATEA. 
Socratea, Karst. in Linnea, xxviii. p. 263; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 900. 
Three or five species, according to different authors, inhabiting Brazil, Colombia, and 
Central America. 
1. Socratea exorrhiza, Wendl. in De Kerch. les Palmiers, p, 257. 
Iriartea exorrhiza, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. p. 36, tt. 33 et 84; Kunth, Enum. Pl, iu. p. 194; 
Seem. Bot. Voy. ‘ Herald,’ p. 203. 
Panama, in woods (Seemann).—Co.LomB1 to BRAZIL. 
9. Socratea durissima, Wendl. in De Kerch. les Palmiers, p, 257. 
Iriartea durissima, CErst. in Vidensk. Meddel. 1858, p. 30. 
Nicaracua, in the primeval forests on the banks of the San Juan (@rsted). 
4, WETTINIA. 
Wettinia, Poepp. in Endl. Gen. Plant. p. 243; Poepp. et Endl. Nov. Gen. et Sp. ii. p. 39, tt. 153, 
154; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 902. 
Besides the following doubtful species, there is one, or perhaps two, species in the 
Andes of Peru. 
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