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Palma tota spinosa major, friictu pruniformi. Sloan jam. 



1. p. 120. 



Palma caudice aculeatissimo, pinnis ad margines spinosis, 

 fructibus majusculis. Brown, jam. 545. 

 Tæhn-Tio Incolis. 

 Vöxer vild og dyrkes. 



Radix fibrosa. Caudex procerus , cylindricus , cicatrisatus ; ju- 

 nior stipitihus armatus. Fi'ons ohlongo-lanceolata , novem - viginti : 

 quatuorpedalis y pinnata. Foliola solitaria , pollicem remota , sessi- 

 Ua , ensiformia y primo replicata? insertione coarctata. Rachis 

 versus apicem seiisim co77ipressa. Stipes fronde quintupla hrevior; 

 ciliato ~ spinosus , supra concavus , subtus cojif-'exus, Fulcj'um rete 

 slipulaceum contextum e filis tenacissimis , tegens basin stipitis , e 

 -fiiaiginibus stipitis prcecedentis oppositi exortuni, 



Inflorescentia maris. 



Spatha epaluis , lanceolata, compressa, rumpens, spaiice brevior. 

 S^^adix simpliciter ramosus , thy r si formai s , ovatus , odore anisi gra- 

 reolens. Peduuculus tereti-cornpressus , tomeniosus , obsitus sp)iculis 

 amentaceis subsessilibus confertis suffultis sqama sessili acuminata 

 rigida multo hreuiore. Spicula singula quadripollicaris, crasitie di- 

 giti , obsolete trigona , racliide apice elongata nuda rigida, floribus 

 sessilibus arete digestis et ob squa?nas rachidis coalitas quasi immer- 

 sis in receptaculo faposo : fopeolis unißoris membranaceis ; squamœ 

 rachidis tantum basi spiculœ subdistinctœ, 



Inflorescentia fæminæ. 



^^di\\\st. ep alvis , lato-lanceolata , compressa, rumpens, longitudine 

 spadicisßorentis. Spadix simpliciter ramosus, in thyrsum ovatuni 

 coarctatus , inodorus , primo intuitu strobiliformis , rigidus. Pe- 

 dunculiis tereti-compressus , tomentosus , obsitus spiculis strobilaceis 

 sessilibus confertis suffultis squama sessili acuminatissima rigida 



