; 





DltEOIA IIEXANDRIA. 



;^9i 



baseos approxirnatis, capsulis obovatiSj 

 caule Isevi tereti. JVUlcL Sp. PL 4. p. 



795. Hort Kew, 5. p. 392. ^u/jL 



904. 



% 



Volubilis nigra, radice tiiberosa com- 

 pressa. SL 1. p. 140. 



Yams. Hughes. 226.* 



Cultivated Dio>scorea5 or Yam, Aiton, 



ELAIS. 



Palm«). Lin. Jus^s', Brow7i. 



giiineensis^JL, frondibus pinnatis, stipitibus dentalo- 



spinosis divergcntibus, denticulis su- 

 premis recurvatis. WtUd. Sp. P/. 4. /;. 



799, Ilort. Kew\ 5, p. 393. Jacq. Amcr. 

 280. L 172. Mart. Palm, t 54~"56. T? 



Palma foliorum pediculis spinosis. >SY. 

 2.p. 113. L 214.t 



* Several kinds of Yam are cultivated in Barbados. I Lave 



s 



not hatl an opportunity of informing myself how far they are 

 distinct species or only varieties. 



t Willdcnow, by an oversight^ has made this Elais and the 

 C0C0.S (Acrocomia) fusiformis both identical with the Palma tola 



