110 PALM TREES 



annual floods rise to a considerable height. From this 

 point upwards it is very abundant, growing everywhere 

 on the margins of the rivers, in places which are for six 

 or eight months in the year under water. It is never 

 found beyond the limits of the floods, and in travelling 

 up the Rio Negro it is for hundreds of miles the only 

 species of Astrocaryum met with. 



