LEPIDOCARYUM. 991 
B. Leaves regularly palmate-flabelliform. Segments numerous, uniform. 
Leaflets 16—20. broadly lanceolate, bluntish. Female spadix twice 
branched. 
6. L. casiquiarense Spruce. 
Leaflets 20, narrowly lanceolate. Female spadix simply divided into 
very few (3) flower-bearing branches. A smaller plant ‘than 
the preceding. 
7. L. guainiense Spruce. 
| 1. LrePIpocaryum GRACILE Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii, 50, t. 45, 46 ; Drude in Mart. 
Fl. Bras. iti, Il, 299 t. Z LXII f. IX (f. $ excl. f. magn. nat.) et t. LXVI, f. 1. 
Brasil, Japurà River (Prov. Rio Negro). 
2. LEPIDOCARYUM TENUE Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. i, 51 t. 47: Wallace, Palm- 
trees Amazon, 61, t. II, f. 4 and t. XXII; Drude in Mart. Fl. Brasil iii. II, 298 
(partly ?) t. LXII, f. VII (fruit) and excl. L. enneaphyllum Barb. Rodr. 
Mauritia (Lepid.) quadripartita Spruce in Journ. Linn. Soc. xi, (Botany) 
1869, 172 ex Drude l. c. 
L. sexpartitum Barb. Rodr. Enum. Palm. Nov. 19. and Sertum Palm. 1, 
iL ANSE dB 
L. sexpartitum 8 microcarpum Drude |. c. 299, t. LXII, f. VIII (the 
fruit entire only and excluding the figure of the seed). 
Brasil, Rio Madeira. 
3. LEPIDOCARYUM GUJANENSE Bece. sp. n. 
British Guiana (Schomburg No. 983 in the Berlin Herbarium). 
Frondium segmentis 2—6, spadicis ramis floriferis alternis utrinque 4—8 ; spathis 
secundariis fugaciter furfuraceis ; floribus masculis 5—6 mm. longis, floribus foemineis 
7 mm. longis; fructibus oblongo-cylindraceis, 22—23 mm. longis, 13—14 mm. latis ; 
semine subtereti, profunde longitudinaliter sulcato, apice vix emarginato. 
4. TLEPIDOCARYUM MACROCARPUM Becc. 
L. sexpartitum var macrocarpum Drude in Mart. Fl. Bras. iii, II, 299, t. 
LXII, VIII (the seed only). 
Brasil, Padaniri River (Trail No. 1095 in Kew Herbarium). 
5. LEPIDOCARYUM ENNEAPHYLLUM Barb. Rodr. Enum. Palm. Nov. (1875) 19; Prot. 
app. 34; Les Palm. 10.,%. 1, f. A. B. and sportom Palm. 4 Ih & IV. A. 
Brasil Rio, Trombetas and Jamunda. 
6. LEPIDOCARYUM CASIQUIARENSE (sub Mauritia) Spruce in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
(Botany) xi (1896) 173; Drude in Mart. Fl. Brasil m, II, 300 t. LAH, £ XI 
(fruit). 
South Venezuela, Casiquiari River. 
7. LEPIDOCARYUM GUAINIENSE. Spruce (sub Mauritia), 1. c. 174; Drude, l. B 300. 
t. LXII, f. X (fruit) and t. LXVIII, 1. 
South Venezuela, Guainia River. 
