’ . 
10 PALMS OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON. 
pubescentia badia vestita, et aculeis compressis :006™--012", una- 
quaque = et apice spadicea, its pallidiore, valide armata; spadice 
simplici, rachi °03™ ; ce et corolla, quam calyx duplo 
longiore, padbooias calicink ore trilobis, extus lanatis; drupa 
majore -018™ x ‘018™, endocarpio subgloboso. 
Hab.—In sylvis recentioribus ad ostia fl. Negro abundat. 
Subsp. 2. arundinacea (Trail hb. Palm., 141, 195, 215). —Foliis 
pin! Seas upiageed pinnis 3-5-jugis, lineari-lanceolatis, i inferioribus 
ie 5™--025™, apicalibus *23™--35™ x °045™- ‘O75™ ; foliorum 
vada et ses —_ tenuibus, subnigris vel unaquaque medio 
pullidiore, armatis culeolis horridis; spatha interiore aculeis 
nigris tenuibus ses apaieas bifidi, ramis "025"; drupa :015™ x 
*012™; ecalyce et corolla, ae calyx duplo longiore, " glabris ?, endo- 
ab.—Ad Barr. de Beet) anga, fl. Purus, et ad ostia fl. Taquahi 
woe Javary. Ab Indis ‘‘ Iu-i” appellatur 
Obs. 1.—Though the great selanty that exists between the forms 
as ‘and arundinacea has led me mene them as subspecies, yet 
they differ from one anes in seve’ ant respec most 
important being the division of the spain the form of the endocarp, 
and the mangas of the fl. ot prove to be glabrous in arun- 
Obs. 2.— When bearing flowers or fruit B. pele can be readily 
enough distinguished from its congeners, but can hardly be distin- 
guished in the barren state from 2. oligocarpa and from B. Juruensis. 
It might also be mistaken for B. tenuis, Wallace; with the other 
subspecies of oe mitis, Mart., and with 2. cuspidata, Mart., it could 
hardly be confounded. 
Obs. 3.—To xithis species I has, given ie manuscript name B. 
gr with w name the specimens : ium are 
labelled. I afterwards found that the name oh already gen used by 
Dr. Rodriguez, requiring an alteration of the name on my part 
pie OF ge: 184. 
I. Bactris elegans, T: 1. Pinna, nat. si 2. Spadix and inner Hee 
} (the branches of the Se are cut off about their middle). 3. 2 flow 
Fruit, nat. size. 
TL B. irta, Mart., subsp. pulchra, Trail.—1. een i stem ssn 
3 
Ill. B. spherocarpa, Trail.—l. Leaf of rome artery a: ap deer of li 
3. Leaf of vp a pinnatisecta, Trail, 4. Spadix with fruits, fof va. cui > 
* TY 3 phase So Leaf. Spa 
eumorpha, —I1, Leaf. 2. Spadix with fruits, and 
@ flower, enlarged. "4. Section of fruit, nat, size, he eet 
— B Constancie, Barb. Rod.—l. 9 patti enlarged, 2, Section of fruit, 
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