PALMS OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON: 45 
°025™, annulato, inermi vel aculeis paucis nigris subarmato ; foliis 
*8™-2°7™, interrupte pinnatis; vagina *2-°3" aculeolis adpressis 
Sn ut in Jriartea setigera) vel aculeis vaneral 1™--02™ compressis 
subnigris medio sub-pallidioribus armata; petiolo -4"-1™ subtereti, 
supra profunde scisso, inermi, vel aculeis vitieetia acutis nigris, 
basin versus sallidisibun -02™. ‘08 , solitariis vel binatim aggregatis, 
t : gh 
_obdu ug 
(gregibus alternis, -08™ dissitis), pinna superi perth gregis 
majore quam inferior, pinnis lanceolatis, subfaloato-cuspidatis acu- 
mine tenuissimo, ultra medium latioribus, ad margines et ad vene 
primarie apicem setoso-ciliatis, supra glabris, subtus minute a 
losis, *25™--6" X°04™--1™; spatha exteriore coriacea, ic 
aculeolis sparse armata; spatha interiore ( 3™--45™) fusiformi, ssaleis 
“01™--04™, ulvis, nitidis, imbricatis, compressis, ad m margines serrato- 
ramoso, pe ulo pubescente, rachi °04™--05™ ramos 8-10 tenues, -09™- 
*12™ proferente; drupa depresso-globosa (-015" x -018™), rostellata, 
glabra, purpurea; mesocarpio ut in B, Marga, endocarpio lenticulari, 
subquadrangulari, processibus extus obsesso ; drupz calyce et corolla, 
quam yx duplo neers __ extus spa arse 
hi 
aif 
‘rom ty described by its authors (Linnea, v. xxviii., 
p. 347), the variety just described differs in the shorter stem ( amg"), 
in the midrib of the leaf being — instead of spiny along its 
whole length ; in the spines being longer when present (-04™--06) ; 
in the pinnez being broader in proportion to their length (-32™--37™ x 
-022™--024™), with the terminal pinne not much broader than the 
others; in the much longer spines on ‘the spathe (-001™--004™), only 
spadix (12-14), and in lenticular putamen (putamine obovato). [The 
gures, &c , within brackets are taken from Linden and Wendland’s 
description 
Pr obably both should be regarded as — pale ?) of B. 
macroacantha, Mart., which differs from acanthospatha chiefly as 
us 
peste a ee tae spadicis homme ae pachiernets erectis hirto, 
ramos 11 pubescentes 6-10 pollicares proferente, drupa ignota.” 
33. B. Constancia, Barb. Rod. (Le., p. 37, — 30); (Trail. hb. 
Palm., 13, 114).—Humilis, aculeata ; ‘eandicibos x eodem rhizo- 
mate ortis, *3™-"6™, acnleis nigris longis armatis = liis 1-8™-2™, in- 
terrupte pinnatis, erecto-patulis, ialitciagts ad vaginas (3™) et petiolos 
subteretes supra scissos aculeis armatis, aculeis petioli solitariis 
vel 2-4-natim aggregatis, sparsis, uitidis, nigris, basi earned 
-02™--1™, tenuibus, 
petiolo lepra badia decidua obsessa ; pinnis 14-18-jugis, 9-3-natim in 
gieges alternas aggregatis, subfaleato-lanceolati tis, *3™-"35™ x "045", 
ineequaliter i in cuspidem longam tenuissimam productis, supra glaber- 
