PALMS OF THE VALLEY OF THR AMAZON, 5 
armatis ; spatha interiore aculeis albido-badiis armata ; a sim~ 
plicis pedunculo pubescente vel setoso; rachi 035". 5™ dense 
florifero ; fl. calyce dhetsutinila in lacinias tres ioccngaianti acutas 
producto, cdralla 006" ultra medium trifida, petalis ovato-trian~ 
ularibus, acuminatis; fl. 9 calyce annulari vel quam corolla du lo 
ri 
adiis contortis dense vestitis ; ovario ovato setuloso; drupa 
bsp. 1. tomentosa, Mart. (Trail hb. Palm., 61).—Foliis 1™-1- 8"; ; 
gina et petiolo ad medium aculeis compressis *006™-"025™ armata, 
(ochrea setis vestita), petiolo et costa lepra vel tomento ferruginea dense 
vestitis ; pinnis 7-8-jugis (‘‘utrinque 3-10,’ Mart.) i Rc x *025"- 
"10" su pra atroviridibus, subtus pallidioribus, ad venas brevissime 
pubescentibus, siccis nigricantibus; spatha interiore 3” culeis con- 
tortis compressia pease vestita; spadicis pedunculo pions fulvis 
vestito. 
Hab.—Ad ostia fi. aniline brachii fl. Negr 
Subsp. 2. capillacea (Trail hb. Palm., 140). _Foliis e112" 5 
vagina et petioli faciei superiore ad medium aculeolis wes 
medio stramineis ‘003™-'012™ armatis nec leprosis; costa seepe sub- 
flexuosa, haud leprosa, sed pilis ferrugineis ( 001™- 003"), saci 
caducis dense vestita; pinnis 8- -12-jugis, flaccidis, supra subtusque 
pilis -001™- 002" obsitis, ideoque canis, *25™-"33™ X ‘03™-.08™ ; spatha 
*12™.°20™, aculeis tenuioribus armata, et pubescentia vestita ; ‘spadicis 
pedunculo pubescente, nec armato. 
Barreiras de Pariti, et ad ‘oeharg de Ypir- 
snes fl. Purus; floret mense Octobro. 
. B. longipes, Popp. (Trail hb. Palm., 210). 
Hab, —Ad Boa vista, fl. Madeira. 
Var. exslis (Trail hb. Palm., 210).—Ab exemplo typico differt ut 
infra.—Minor, caudice tenuissimo ; foliis -45™--50™; petiolo (vagina 
“10” inclusa) 15"-"20, setis brevissimis ferrugineis vestito ; alis trian- 
gulari - lanceolatis 25"—30™ x05"; yenis primariis utrinque 9; 
angulo costali 17°-32° ; spatha intern fragili, setosa ; spadice parvo, 
i 
Hab. —Ad Barreiras de Mutum, ‘a fi. Jutahi. 
Obs.—B. longipes may possibly be regarded as a subspecies of the 
next species, to one of the forms of which it comes very close, 
differing from it chiefly in the smaller size, in the long and — 
slightly-armed petioles, and in the fewer veins in the leaf; while 
they agree in the spathes, spadices, flowers, and fruit, as well-as in 
eer te habit 
vB. pectinata, Mart. (Trail hb. Palm., 214, 196, 92, 189, 220, 
11, ot, 66, 91, 69, 23, 222). —Caudicibus arundinaceis -1™3" x 
-008- m.015™, inermibus, raro ad internodia aculeatis, plerumque 2-6 
pinnatisectis, vel interrupte (raro regulariter) pinnatis, supra subtus- 
que pilosis, vel subtus ad venam mediam solum ; a (6-) ret 
16-20"; fellottinn veainis ob:petiiin:sewhdi seal tenuibus 025" 
