PALMAE juss. (Iriartea.) 195 



ovato-ellipficis. Marf. — Ad fluvium Amazonum ejusque con- 

 fluentes, locis sylvaticis, inundatls, praesertim frequens in de- 

 pressis versus Oceanum. — Radices 8, 10, 20 et plures altitu- 

 dine 6-8 pedum e terra «mergentes atque in conum vastissimum 

 dispositae. Caudex 60-80-100-pedaIis. Frondes 12-20-pedales. 

 Spadix florcns sesquipedalis, patens ; fructifer pendulus. Bacca 

 breviter elliptica, 8-12 lineas longa, flavescens vel viridi-flaves- 

 cens, parce carnosa. (Mart.) 



2. I. VENTRICOSA Mart. Palm. 37. t. 35. 36. Caudice 

 medio ventricoso; pinnis antice repando - sinuatis, subplicatis ; 

 spathis 10-12, deciduis; calvcibus masculis villosis ; baccis sub- 

 globosis. Mart. — In sylvis aboriginibus udis, ad ripas fluminis 

 Solimoes, a Mutum-Coara collc versus occasum, nec non in vasto 

 tractu svlvatico, quem varii amnes illi Jaterales rigant, inter 

 Flumina Nigrum et T^a. — Caudex junior caespite subgloboso 

 radicum terrae infixus, adultior, illis e tcrra emergentibus, cono 

 6-8 pedes alto supra solum tanquam fulcimento elatus, e baseos 

 centro novas denuo radices, stolonum ad ins<ar, deorsum agens, 

 80-pedalis et altior. Frondes 8-12-pedaIes. Spadices 3-4-peda- 

 les. Bacca globosa vel subovato- globosa, magnitudine cerasi 

 austeri, viridis, fandem flavescenti-fusca ; carne tenera. (Mart.) 



3. I. DELTOIDEA Ruiz. et Pav. Syst. 298. Eor. Procl. 139. 

 t. 32. Mart.Palm. 39. Caudice subaequali; pinnis antice lobato- 

 dentatis, erosis; spathis 10-12, deciduis; calvcibus masculis 

 glabris; baccis subglobosis. Mart. — In nemoribus prope Pozuzo 

 Peruviae. — Radices ut in praecedentibus. Caudex 60-70-pe- 

 dalis. Frondes I. exorrhizae. Spadix bipedalis et longior. 

 Bacca globosa, magnitudine gallae turcicae, flavesceuti-fusca ; 

 carne tenui, mucilaginosa. (Mart.) 



i. I. SETIGERA Mart. Palm. 39. t. 37. Caudice aequali; 

 pinnis irregulariter rhombeis, antice sinuato-dentatis, erosis, 

 subtus pubescentibus; petiolis setosis; spathis 4-5, persistenti- 

 bus; baccis ellipficis. Mart. — In margine fluminis Japura. 

 (Brasilia.) — Caudex radicibus plerumque subferraneis suflultus, 

 sub50-pedalis. Frondes 2-3-pedaIes. Spadix florifer pedalis, 

 fructifer sesquipedalis. Bacca junior elliptica, obtusa, subver- 

 rucosa, adulla elliptica, magnitudine nucis avellanae; carne sic- 

 ciuscula, subgrumosa. (Mart.) 



5. I. Orbigniana Mart. Palm. 189. Caudice aequali, ra- 

 dicibus extraterraneis suffulto ; frondibus patulis, crispis; piunis 

 oblique obovatis, in lacinias anticas lineares et posticam latiorem 

 subflabelliformem, omnes truncafas et subdentatas sectis ; spa- 

 this 4-5, deciduis; floribus polyandris; baccis ovato-ellipficis. 

 Mart. Palmier Acuna a"Orligny mss. — In sylvisjuxta fluvium 

 Mamore, in vico d'Exaltacion, austrum versus. — Caudex 40-60- 

 pedalis, rectus, stricfus, gracilis, laevigatus, obsolete annulatus. 

 Frondes 5-8, ob petiolorum basim in cvlindrum 6-pedalem con- 

 volutani a solita plurimarum palmarum forma abhorrentes, crispo 



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