44 PALMS OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON. 
a Te Moraga Mart. (Teall hb. Palm., 2) Cauilig elato 
4:5"-6" X-03"—05" ¢ foliis 1-8"-2°5™; vagina aculeatissima ; petiolo 
et costa subtus valide aculeatis, aculeis -005™--08™, compresso-trique- 
tris, cavis, fragilibus, apice asique nigris, incilio stramineis, 1-4- 
c 
pubescentiam padiam aculeis sparsis, *01™, adpressis armato, rachi 
"1", ramos 20 et ie sursum attenuatos, 29". "25™ edente. 
"Hab. —Ad Obydo 
Obs. Bisco deactietinn given by Martius in Hist, srry: hh il., 
p. 93 8 perfectly with the common form of B. M Marga (viz., that 
just described), save that he says ‘caudex sub 50-pedalis, fone 
33-4 pollicari,’ _ &@ statement founded unquestionably on some error of 
pa aco si ageregatis, armato 
meri; pin: Ed ne se eared -49™_-498™ x -045"™- go ; 
caulk interiore (: $2™.-38 x “03"- 
ye ; ce - os 7, 
“1 proferente ; 1. 4 calyce et corolla g wo gg subsp. Seen 
i. sylvis humidis (Varzea). 7 "Sobral , fl. Purus mense. 
Bgre; i 
/aequaliter tenui-cuspidatis (-30"--38"x -05"- pls ; spatha interiore 
(-25"--32") extus sulcata, ad medium aculeis sparsis, subreflexis, 
Compressis, — margines serratis, -006™--008" iceis armata; 
Padive -25™, badio-tomentoso, rachi -035™ ramos 11-13 tenues ‘07™- 
‘09™ proferente; fl. 2 corolla: brevissime et sparsissime setosa (drupa 
imm rite ‘OLS x-008™ glabra). 
.—In paludibus in rivis (I 9. 
; Me | (4garape de remedio, &c.) prope 
B: “conflons. Linden et Herm. Wend.—Var. acanthospatha 
(Trail bi, Palm., 205, 211)~ Sinhom caudice “12-1: roe feos 
