678 JOVRNAL, BOMBAY NATURAL HIST. SOCIETY, Vol. XXIT. 



Key to the genera described below : 



1 . Calyx of the female flowers of 3 leaves, 



imbricate ... ... ... ... Martinezm. 



2. Calyx 3-dentate ... ... ... Bactrim. 



MARTINEZIA, R. and Pav. Fl. Peruv. & Chil. Prod. 148, t. 32. 



(After Francisco Martinez de la Rosa, a Spanish poet and states- 

 man, 1789-1862). 



Willd. Mem. 1804, 32.— Gaertn. Fruct. II, t. 139, f. 5.— Kunth 

 Enum. PI. III., 269, 275.— Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm, III, 283, 322, 

 t. 161, f. 1.— Karst. Linn. 28, 388, 397.— Wendl. Linn. 28, 349.— 

 Walp. Ann. I, 100 f.— Griseb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 521.— Drude Bot. 

 Zeitg., 1877, 636, t. 5, f. 10; Flora Brasil. Ill, II. 392.— Benth. 

 & Hook. Gen. PI. Ill, II, 944, 124. 



Stem spinous, columnar. Leaves terminal, mostly few, pinnate ; 

 rhachis and peduncle spinous ; leaflets praemorse, more or less 

 aculeate, spadix from between the leaves, simply branched, spinous ; 

 branches with glomerules of 3 flowers, upwards only male flowers, 

 spathes 2, spinous. Flowers monoecious, pale, male larger than the 

 female. Male flowers : calyx tripartite ; corolla tripetalous ; stamens 

 6 ; filaments subulate ; anthers erect, linear, acuminate. Female 

 flowers : sepals 3, concave, imbricate ; petals 3 concave, valvate ; 

 staminodes forming a 6-dentate membranous urceolus. Ovary 

 trilocular, 2 loculi abortive; stigmas 3. Drupe globose, 1-seeded, 

 size of a cherry ; sarcocarp fleshy ; putamen horny, scrobiculate and 

 rugulose, 3 slightly stellate pores. Albumen equable. 



Species 7. — From the Antilles and Columbia to Peru and eastern 

 Bolivia. 



Cultivation in Europe. — Very ornamental stove palms. They 

 thrive in a compost of sandy loam and peat, in about equal parts, 

 and require a strong heat and an abundance of water. Propagation 

 is efiected hj seeds. 



MARTINEZIA CARYOT^FOLIA, Humb. & Kth. Nov. Gen. ed. 

 min. I 305, VII. t. 699 ; Kth. Enum. III. 270 ; Mart. Hist. Nat. Palm. 

 Ill, 284, t. 161, f. 1. — Aiphanes caryotoides, Hort. 



Vern. name in Brazil : Paxiuba Majerona (ex Drude). 



Description. — Stem cylindric, 20-30 feet high, 4-5 inches in 

 diameter, annalate, with long, subulate, black spines. Leaves 8-12, 

 slightly arched-patent, 6-8 feet long ; petioles at the base broadly 

 lanceolate, semi-amplexicaule, armed with black spines ; leaflets 

 straight-patent, cuneiform, lanceolate, margin spinous-ciliate. 

 Spadices, growing from between the lower leaves, 1^ feet long; 

 peduncle slightly terete, 4-6 inches long, erect-patent, compressed 

 angular at the base, unarmed, glabrous. Male flowers : calyx small, 

 tripartite ; segments ovate-triangular, acute ; corolla 4-times as long 



