THE PALMS OF BRITISH INDIA AND CEYLON. 679 



as the calyx ; petals oblong-lanceolate, acnte, coriaceous, the inner 

 side longitudinallj^ striate. Stamens 6, included ; filaments very 

 short, filiform, white ; anthers linear, erect, subsagittate at the base ; 

 pistillode minute. Female flowers : calyx triphyllous, membranous; 

 sepals broadly-ovate, scarcely 1 line long ; with spine ; rhachis 

 unarmed ; branches many, o-6 inches long, corolla twice as long, 

 coriaceous ; petals ovate, acute, concave ; staminodes forming a 

 membranous, (j-dentate urceolus. Ovary ovate, glabrous, trilocular, 

 2 loculi being abortive. No style; stigmas 3, pja-amidal-acute, 

 erect. Drape globose, size of a cherrj", albumen solid, equable, 

 cartilaginous. 



Habitat. — Brazil, Peru, Bolivia. 



Illustration. — Plate XC shows the most characteristic parts of 

 Martinezia caryot^folia : the stem thickly covered with slender 

 spines, and a leaf resembling verj- much that of the Indian Caryotas. 

 It was just this resemblance Avhich has given this palm its specific 

 name " caryotce folia.'' The photograph was taken by the Rev. 

 M. Maier. 



MARTINEZIA LIWDENIANA, H. Wendl. in Linnjea, XXVIII (1856), 

 349. 



Vernacui-ar Name — In New Granada : Alvarico. 



Description. — Stem densely covered with spines. Leaves aggregate 

 — pinnatisect ; petiole with black spines ; rhachis covered with a 

 yellow-brown tomentum, densely intermixed with short black 

 spines; leaflets — | — I^ foot long, foliaceous, pr^emorse at the apex, 

 middle nerve bearing 1 or 2 long spines towards the base on the 

 underside, and some on the upper surface towards the apex. 



Spadix elongate, simply branched, branches very long, the bases 

 of the lower ones bearing no flowers for a short distance ; peduncle 

 with long spines ; peduncle, rhachis and branches covered with brown 

 tomentum and small stiff" spines. 



Fruit a drupe, rose-coloured. 



Habitat. — New Granada. 



This palm was discovered by Linden in December 1855 who found 

 it growing in the forests near Florida, New Granada. 



Illustration.- — The palm figured on Plate XOI was growing m 

 the garden of the Cama Hospital, Bombay. On the stem only a spiral 

 groove is left free from spines, indicating the place where the leaves 

 we]'e attached. 



BACTRIS, JAGQ., Stirp. Amer., t. 256. 



(From "baktron," a cane; the young stem being used for walk- 

 ing sticks). 



Kunth Enum. PI. Ill, 261.— Karst. Linn. 28, 397, 405.— 

 Mart. Hist. Palm. II., 92, t. 60, 70, 72, 73, 74; III., 279, 321.— 

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