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PLATE XXXV. 



Bactris integrifolia, n. sp. 



Iu, Lingoa GeraL 



This beautiful species has the stern hardly so thick as 

 the little finger, and nine or ten feet high, smooth and 

 distinctly jointed. The leaves are four or five in num- 

 ber, terminal, entire, three or four times as long as they 

 are wide, and not very deeply bifid at the end. The 

 petioles and their sheathing bases are thickly set with 

 long, flat, black spines. 



The spadices are very small, erect and two-branched, 

 growing from among the persistent sheathing bases 

 below the leaves. The spathes are small, erect and 

 persistent, clothed with adpressed brown spines. The 

 fruit is small and globular, and of a black colour. 



This palm was found at S. Carlos on the Upper Rio 

 Negro and on the " Estrada de Javita," a road through 

 the forest for ten miles, which connects the river- 

 systems of the Rio Negro and Orinoco, and along which 

 most of the traffic between Venezuela and Brazil passes. 

 In both cases it grew in the shady virgin forest. 



