402 PALMA, | 
1. Wettinia, sp.?, Benth. et Hook. Gen. Pl. iii. p. 902. 
Panama (Seemann). Hb. Kew. 
5. MALORTIEA. 
Malortiea, Wendl. in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gart. Zeit. 1853, xxi. p. 25; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant, * 
| iii. p. 906. 
This genus is limited to Central America; and Bentham and Hooker record the 
number of species as five, which was probably a slip for three. 
1. Malortiea gracilis, Wendl. in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gart. Zeit. 1853, xxi. 
p. 26; Bot. Mag. t. 5291. . 
GuaTEMALA (Wendland). Cultivated specimens in the Kew Herbarium. 
A specimen in the Kew Herbarium from Chontales, Nicaragua (Tate, 380), is perhaps 
the same species. 
2. Malortiea latisecta, Wendl. in Otto & Dietr. Allg. Gart. Zeit. 1853, xxi. 
p. 144. ) ; 
Costa Rica, near Sarapiqui (Wendland). 
A specimen in the Kew Herbarium, labelled Malortiea intermedia in the hand- 
writing of Wendland himself, is probably this species. 
3. Malortiea simplex, Wendl. in Bot. Zeit. 1859, p. 5; Bot. Mag. t. 5247. 
Nicaragua, Chontales (Seemann, 161) ; Costa Rica, on the eastern side (riedrichsthal). 
Hb. Kew. 
6. REINHARDTIA. 
Reinhardtia, Liebm. in Overs. K. Dansk. Selsk. 1846, p. 9 (nomen tantum); Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 
ii. p. 311; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 906. 
An exclusively Mexican genus, of which we have seen only one species. 
1. Reinhardtia elegans, Liebm.; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. p. 311; Walp. 
Ann. ili. p. 459. | 
Sourn Mexico, Sierra San Pedro Nolasco &c. (Jurgensen, 760), Cumbre de Teotal- 
cingo, Oaxaca (Liebmann). Hb. Kew. 
In the Kew Herbarium there is a specimen of this palm bearing a different specific 
name, in the handwriting of Liebmann, from the one he subsequently published. In 
the ‘Genera Plantarum’ the specimens are treated as belonging to three species. 
7. CHAMZEDOREA. 
Chamedorea, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. p. 638; Benth. et Hook. Gen. Plant. iii. p. 910; Drude in Mart. 
Fl. Bras, iii. 2, p. 528. 
Nunnezharia, Ruiz et Pav. Prodr. Fl. Peruv. et Chil. p. 147, t. 31. 
Nunnezia, Willd. Sp. Pl. iv. p. 1154. 
