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from Central America, wliile those referred to Morenia are Andine, 

 except 1/. integrifoUa^ a native of Western Brazil. The original 

 species of Chamaedorea was C gracilisy Willd. (I.e. p. 800), which 



tt. 247, 248. 



vinnatifronSy Jacq. H 



Drude in Engler und Prantrs ISfatiirl. Pflanzenfam. ii. Ill, 62, 

 separates the two above mentioned genera thus : — : 



Chamaedorea. Male flower: Calyx annular or saucer-shaped. 

 Petals at first connected at the apex. Stamens 6, usually included 

 in the corolla. 



+ 



Morenia. Male flower : Calyx 3-toothed. Petals broadly oval, 

 acuminate, stellately spreading. Stamens 6, erect- [Male 

 spa dices usually whorled.] 



The species of Morenia can be distinguished as follows : 

 Leaves simply bilobed ... ... X, M, integri folia, Trail 



Leaves pinnatisect : 



Male inflorescence very dense : . 



Leaf-segments lanceolate ... 2. M, Lindeniana, H. Wendl. 

 Leaf-segments elliptic- 



lanceolate ... . ... 3- M. fragransy Ruiz et Pavon 



Male inflorescence lax: 



Leaf - segments straight. 



Stamens of equal length. 4. M. covallina, Karst, 

 Leaf - segments sigmoid. 

 Outer stamens longer 

 than the inner ... ... 5. 3/, Poeppigianaj Mart, 



1. M. integrifolia, Trail in Journ. Bot. xiv. (1876), p. 331; 



Drude in Mart. TL Bras. iii. II. p. 625. Western Equa- 

 torial Brazil. 

 Yar, nigricans, Trails I.e. Western Equatorial Brazil. 



2. M. Lindeniana, H, Wendl 



0. Drude in Mart. El. B 



Chamaedorea 



Lindeniana, H. Wendl. in Otto & Dietr. Allg, Gartenz. 

 xxi. (1853), p. 139. Andes of Colombia. 



3. M. fragrans, Ruiz et Pavon, Syst. Veg. EL Peruv. p. 299; 



Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. p. 162, et Palm. Orbign. p. 7, 



tt. 3, 16; Bot. Mag t. 5492 (excl. syns., M. Lindeniana and 



Chamaedorea Lindeniana); Drude in Mart. EL Bras. iii. 

 II. p. 525. Peru and Bolivia. 



This is not the same as Chainaedorea fragrans. Mart. 

 (Hist. Nat. Palm. ii. p. 4, t. 3, figs. 1-2), which has 

 bilobed leaves. 



4. M. corallina, Karst. in Linnaea, xxviii. (1856), p. 274, and 



Fl. Colnmb. ii. p. 135, t. 171 ; Bot. Mag. t. 8527. Andes 

 of Colombia. 



5. M. Poeppigiana, Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. iii. p. 161, tt, 140, 



Mart 



Spruce in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi. p. 123; 0, Drude 

 .11. Bras. iii. II. 526. Peru. 



