MAURITIA. 293 
Stem . . . . Spathes of the spike-bearing branches about as broad 
at the mouth as they are long. 
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i. M. peruviana Becc. 
Stem slender, solitary, almost unarmed. Leaves having broad 
leaflets rather suddenly aeute. 
8. M. subinermis Spruce. 
IMPERFECTLY KNOWN. 
Slender. Stems in groups, spinescent. Leaves white beneath. Fruit ovate 
5x4 em. (Barb. Rodr.) 
9. M. gracilis Wallace—Brasil, Amazon. 
i Stem solitary, slender 3 m. high, armed especially in its lower part with 
conical robust spines. Leaves having few rigid short and broad Jeaflets (colour 
underneath ?). 
10. M. pumila Wallace—Upper Rio Negro. ` 
ll. M. setigera Gris.—Trinidad. 
EXCLUDED SPECIES. j 
MAURITIA CARINATA Humb. in Spruce “Notes of a Bot. on the Amazon and 
Andes” [ed. by A. R. Wallace (1908) i, 368], Evidently a slip of the pen for 
M. aculeata Humb. / 
Mavritia Pirira Linden in Illustr. Hort. 28. From the specific name it may be 
identified with M. vinifera Mart. 
MAURITIA TENUIS Spruce . . . . = Lepidocaryum tenue Mart. 
MAURITJA CASIQUIARENSIS Spruce . . = Lepidocaryum casiquiarense. 
Mavritia Sagus Schult. (Quid.) 
MAURITIA GRACILIS Spruce . . . . = Lepidocaryum gracile. 
MAURITIA GUAINIENSIS Spruce . . . = Lepidocaryum guatniense. 
1. Maurrmtia vINIFERA Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii, 42, t, 38 et 39, f. I. 1—22 
et iii, 344: Palm. Orbign. f. 13, 21; Drude in Mart. Fl.:Bras.. ii, II. 291, t. 
LXIL f IL 
Central Brasil (Glaziou No. 22272). 
2. Mauritia FLEXUOSA L.-fil suppl. 454; Meyer, Primit. Fl. Essequeb. 283; 
Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. ii, 44,. t.- 40 and ii, 344; Wallace, Palm trees Amaz. 47 
t IL. L 9 sd L AVI; Prode iun Mart. FL Bras. nj IL.29bL £4. EMI E. di; 
& LXIV. Ll (9): LXV, L.F 5 LAVH IL IL 
Equatorial cis-Andine America. 
3. Mauria ACULEATA H: B. K. Nov. Gen. i, 311; Humb. Ansichten der 
Natur. 131; Wallace, Palm trees Amaz. 55, t. XIX; Spruce, Palmae Amaz. 169 ; 
Drude in Mart. Fl. Bras. iii, II, 292 (partly and excl. t. LXII. f. IV?). 
Lepidoccocus aculeatus Wendl. et Drude in Kerch. Les Palm. 249. 
Brasil, Canton of the Rio Negro. 
