(74) 

 Tertia species est: 



3. GUILIELMA MACANA, Mart. 



G. caudice mediocri aculealo; frondibus — ; spatha interiore — ; drupa parva (pisi- 

 formi) ovato-globosa, vertice acuta, putamine subgloboso. 



Caudex cylindricus, quatuor pollices crassus, 20 (ad 30?) pedes altus, superficie 

 laevigata cinereo-fusca , distantia 6 — 8-pollicari annulatus, annulis ultra pollicem latis, 

 aculeis in internodiis armatus magnis nigris, in séries transverse obliquas irregulariter 

 disposais. Spadix simpliciter ramosus. Rami pédales, ubique dense florigeri. Flores iwasc. 

 plurimi, ïœm. pauci illis interspersi. Florum fœmineorum calyx annuliformis et corolla 

 cupulseformis ore truncati, inermes. Andrœcei abortivi intra corollam vestigium nullum. 

 Drupa magnitudine seminis ciceris, ovato-globosa, vertice acute protracto. Putamen 

 castaneo-nigricans, durum, subglobosum. 



Prope Maracaybo : cl. Plée , qui partem caudicis et spadicem fructiferum in Museo 

 R. Horti Parisiensis deposuit. Macana in pluribus americanarum gentium idiomatibus 

 significat clavam militarem; quam ob causam ex Palma; nostrce ligno bsc arma fabri- 

 cari est verosimile. 



IV. MARTIMZIA, Humb. et Kunth. 



Hurab. et Kunth, Nw.gen., I, p. 3o5, t. 6 99 ; Mart., Palm. Bras., t. 161, fig. x ; Endl., 

 Gen., n.° i 7 6 7 ; Kunth, Enum., III, p. 2 6 9; Aiphanes,Wx\U., in Mém. de V Académie de 

 Berlin pour 1804 (1807), p. 3 2 ; Kunth, Enum., III, p. 2? 5. 



Flores monœc, in eodero spadice, sessiles, bracteati : fœminei in ramorum basi sparsi 

 masculi super fœmineos geminati et in ramorum extremitate sparsi. Spatha duplex', 

 interior compléta. Masc. Calyx tripartitus. Corolla tripetala. Stamina sex. Pistdli rudl 

 mentum. Fœm. Calyx triphyllus, foliolis imbricatis. Corolla tripetala , petalis ovatis con- 

 niventi-clausis. Andrœcei abortivi urceolus membranaceus, sexdentatus, ovarium am 

 biens. Ovarium triloculare, loculis duobus aborlivis? Stigmata tria, pyramidato-conni- 

 ventia. Drupa globosa, monosperma, fibroso-carnosa, putamine osseo, extus scrobi- 

 culato et ruguloso, poris tribus stellatis in média peripkeria. Albumen œquabile. Embryo 

 locatus intra porum. 



Caudex aculeatus. Frondes pinnatœ , pinnis alternis aggregatis cuneiformibus , apice 

 erosis. Spadix simpliciter ramosus. Flores masculi ochroleuci , fœminei- viridi vel roseo- 

 ochroleuci. Drupa camoso-fibrosa , epidermide rubro-flavescente vel coccinea. 



Genus Martinezia, quale nunc usurpatur, nomine solummodo a Ruizio et Pavonio 

 conditum, charactere autem a Kunthio exstructum, summa nectitur cum Bactride afïi- 

 nitate, a qua tamen distinguimus : perigonii fœminei partibus discretis, calycis foliolis 

 late imbricatis, porro andrœceo in flonbus fœmineis non in truncatam cupulam brevem 

 mutato, sed m urceolum mœqualiter sexdenticulatum. 



