40 PALMS OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON. 
now of such groups as Deyeuxia and Psamma apart from Ca es act 
And when the principles carried out in the ‘Genera Planta 
are applied to Agrostidacee and Cyperacezx, they cannot fail, so fer as 
I am able to judge dispassionately, to lead to pees able reductions, 
in the spirit of those I have gies of late 
Ima be note a curious r of wos as to Arundo ee 
He quotes under it as a synon = ‘4. triflora, Roxb. Fl. Ind, 1, 
317.” With that fatal facility for copying which renders it so ansebl 
to rely on many modern scientific works in matters ‘of reference, 
ees transcribes this, altering the page of the book alleged to be 
cited to 39. Now I have before me both the first edition of Rox- 
urgh’s Flora, with | Wallich’s occasional additions, and the one 
published later by his two sons; and, though 4. bifaria is charac- 
terised and de’ sgt oe at page 347 i in n each, no such name as A. triflora 
is to be found a How this imaginary synonym came to be 
evolved I have no i or 
NEW PALMS COLLECTED IN THE VALLEY OF THE 
AMAZON IN NORTH BRAZIL, IN 1874. 
By James W. H. Tram, M.A., M.B., F.L.S. 
(Continued from p. 10.) 
. B. Juruensis (Trail hb. are ig —Hamilis, aculeata ; 
cau Mien *6"-1™ x 01", aculeis nigri parse armato ; foliis *75”- 
90" tain. pinnatis, ad Sas dt et Ae aculeis compressis, 
pts 025", 1-3-natim aggregatis, unaquoque apice basique spadiceo 
io pallidiore, armatis; foliis junioribus ad peticlos tomento albido 
pa vestitis; pinnis 4-6-jugis, solitariis vel binatim aggregatis, 
falcato-lanceolatis, longe acuminatis, apicalibus latioribus, supra 
ae subtus ad venas secundarias pubescentia brevissima badia 
obsitis, ad margines setoso-ciliatis, et ad Sie: penicillstis, mediis 
“18™- 23™ x -025"- "035", apicalibus -20"--32™ x -07"-"08"; spatha ex- 
teriore bialata acuta, = badass 13. atha inttasies -18" fusiformi aculeis 
ice 
= 
pubescente, inermi, in ramos 2 tenues "035™-"050™ fisso ; 
petalis rhomboideo-oratis subtric cuspidatis ; androscei_vesti igio nullo 
drupa (immature) ova vata, acuminata (-012™ x 006"), pilis Seiuaeis 
Hab.—Ad Barreiras de Capiranga, fl. Jurué, mense Nov 
Var. lissospatha (Trail hb, Palm., bi? —Spaths feasanes fee 
coriacea, pubescente, -1™; spatha re papyracea ; spadice bi- 
trifido; foliorum vaginis et petiolis racalate tenuioribus subnigris 
armatis ; pimnis haud longe acuminatis, ad margines vix setoso- 
Spec de C; 
e* Bash: Bod, may psy be the same as the variety. 
