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Serra Duida. The Ita palm growing on the delta of 

 the Orinoco is also thought to be the same species. 

 On the river Uaupes, a branch of the Upper Rio Negro, 

 I observed an allied species called by the natives " Ca- 

 rana assu." The stem was smooth and much more 

 slender and waving, and the leaves much smaller. 



Plants of the Mauritia flexuosa are growing in the 

 Palm House at Kew. 



On Plate XVII. a single leaf is represented, showing 

 the flabellate form produced by abbreviation of the 

 midrib. 



Plate II. fig. 2. is a fruit of the natural size. 



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