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PLATE XLII. 

 AsmocARYUM jauari, Martins, 



Jauari, Lingoa Geral, 



The Jauari has the stem rather slenderer than the 

 Tucuma, but of about equal height, and armed with 

 regular narrow rings of spines. The leaves are terminal 

 and of moderate size. The leaflets are long, narrow 

 and very much drooping, and the midribs and sheaths 

 are thickly covered with long, flat, black spines. 



The spadices are erect, simply branched, and hidden 

 amongst the leaves. The fruit is small, oval, green, 

 and not eatable. 



The rather small dense head of foliage, combined 

 with the prickly habit of this palm, render it altogether 

 one of the least pleasing of the family ; and the feeling 

 is increased by its abundance in many localities, ex- 

 tending for miles along the river-banks to the exclusion 

 of any other species. It is moreover one of the least 

 useful among the larger palms, the only part which is 

 applied to any purpose being the hard, black, oval seeds, 

 of which the Brazilian ladies of the Upper Amazon make 

 heads for their lace-making bobbins. 



This species is unknown in the neighbourhood of 

 Para and on the Lower Amazon. It first occurs near 

 Villa Nova, about five hundred miles up the river, 

 where the tidal rise and fall of the water ceases and the 



