PALMS OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON, 79 
these it is readily distinguished by its larger size, much longer 
leaves with more numerous pinne, longer pinne, and longer spadix. 
Comparison of examples of the two species shows at once that they 
are distinct, though it is. rather difficult to express the points of 
difference j in a description. 
4. Dr. Rodriguez (l.c., p. 20, no. 1) has described a — of 
Astrocaryum under the name A. acul tum, Mart., quoting also a 
oom A 6. 
. aculeatum, G. eyer, Esseq., 
eyer in his description (which is quoted by Martius us) says, 
‘‘pinnis linearibus premorsis . . . drupa subglobosa i a This 
can certainly not refer to the same species as Dr. ez describes, 
as will be seen from his description quoted below. I henaaht a spadix 
with ripe fruit and pinne from near the lowest rapids on the Trom- 
betas, and can corroborate the accuracy of the description. My 
specimens (Trail i Palm., 17) were identified by Dr. Rodriguez as 
a: Ppa me 
aculeato Frond urvo-patentibus ; uoue o supra canaliculato et 
dorso conyexo, ubi regulariter et transverse lineis aculeorum obli- 
quorum ornatur; foliolis oblique acuminatis, linearibus; drupa 
gblonga pistillo persistente, a aculeata, rubro-aurantiaca. 
—In montibus lacui José Agu proximis, in districto de Villa 
Bella, in je tae pene onum. Fructificat in Februario. (Barb. Rod, 
: -y O20. 
Stipes ut altus , diame ae 0:11"; internodia 0-2™, aculeis 
referta ; folia 25 seth Dec te longa ; petiolus -2™; rachis 5"; 
ong 35 
it is certainly no ot A.a culeatum, Meyer, and as I believe it to 
it the name of 4. Rodriguesii, in honour of its discoverer. 
ba of of a ramulus, and that the Petes corolla 
seto 
anthopodium, Barb. Rod. Le., p. 21, no. 2), seems to me, so 
far as so ean judge by the brief description, to be the stemless variety 
the species just disc ut I do not venture to uni in 
CocoInm INERMES. 
45. Cocos Inajai, Spruce (Trail hb. Palm., 113). 
= Mazimiliana Inajai, Spruce (Palme Amazonice, p. 163) ; 
(S. hb. Palm 
= Cocos equatorialis, Barb. Rod. (l.c., p. 31). 
Candice 2°5™-6" %-08™-"1™, ligno molli, hes foliis pluribus con- 
temporan raneis, suberectis vel patulis, subcrispis, 2 eg yee “y 
pin —? ; pinnis 74-84-jugis, 2-6-natim aggregatis ut in  UMicuiadnk 
regia, | Reso ms abrupte et Limeqnaier, a pc uminatis, 
45". 65" « °025™--08™, minoribus, venis 6-8 5 
