MAURITIA. 995 
12. Mavriria PERUVIANA Bece. n. sp. 
Trunk solitary (?) attaining the height of 20 m. Zeaves deeply parted into 
numerous narrow long-acuminate segments, the largest’ 75—80 cm. long, 2°5 em. 
broad, green above, white waxy-pulverufent and sprinkled with small brown hair- 
like scales beneath; the margins and the mid-costa smooth. Male spadix large, 
1°50 m. long; spathes of the spike-bearing branches broadly infundibuliform, 6—7 em. 
long and about equally broad at the mouth. Spikelets short, arched-spreading, 
the lowest and largest about 1 cm. long and carrying 18—20 flowers. Male flowers 
oblong, blunt, 6 mm. long, 3 mm. broad; the calyx scaly-scurfy ; stamens 6, not 
distinctly biseriate. Female spadix and fruit unknown. 
Hasirar.—Collected by Dr. A. Weberbauer in September 1904 in Eastern 
Peru at Rioja, to the West of Moyobamba (Department of Loreto), growing in 
woody savannah, between 800—900 m. above the level of the sea (No. 4717 in the 
Herbarium at Berlin). It seems rather closely related to M. armata. 
Latin Drtaqnosis.—Mauritia peruviana Becc. sp. nov. Trunco solitario (?) 
circiter 20 m. longo; frondibus profunde| multipartitis, segmentis angustis, longe 
acuminatis, majoribus 75—80 cm. longis, 2°5 cm. latis, subtus albido-pulverulentis, 
et squamulis. brunneis minutissimis obsitis; costa media et marginibus laevibus ; 
spadiee masculo 1:50 m. longo; ramorum spathis late infundibuliformibus. 6—7 
em. longis et (in ore) latis ; spicis brevibus, majoribus, 7 cm. longis, 18—20-floris ; 
foribus masculis 6 mm. longis, 3 mm. latis. 
ANN. Roy. Bot. GARD., CALCUTTA, VoL. XII. 
