80 PALMS OF THE VALLEY OF THE AMAZON, 
spathis - _ exteriore *38™-"45™ pubescente, coriacea, bialata; spatha 
interiore "6 -1:2™, lignosa, crassa, extus profu nde pluri-suleata, 
primum oe ste fusifor rmi-acuminata, dein cymbiformi, ‘mucronata, 
post spadicis lapsum! diu persistente; spadicibus °55™-1°1™, in eadem 
stirpe aliis androgynis aliis masculis, ramos 24-30, tenues -2™-*4 
si 
bo-viridibus ; sepalis, et petalis quam sepa'a brevioribus, ovato- 
triangularibus, ad basin auriculatis, coriaceis, convoluto-imbricatis; 
androscei _sterili vestigio nullo; pistillo ovato, stigniadites tribus 
poo seaet (drupas siccas solum vidi) drupa ovali, utrinque acuminato 
: x *022™, mesocarpio in fibras dissoluto, endocarpio durissimo, 
nt nec fibris percurso, Booger extus sublevi, levissime trivalle- 
eulato, subtriangulari, uniloculari, basin versus foraminibus 3 (2 — 
i clausis) perforato, aaas triangulari -015"x-012™, album 
altiée osseo, embryone su ubbasilari. 
Hab.—In campis siccis prope urbem Manaos sat abundat (etiam ad © 
fl. —— ? ubi ** curua rana” vocatur 
Obs. 1.—The dimensions of the leaf given above are taken fro 
have removed this species from the ied Mazximiliana, 
to which Spiros referred into Cocos, indeed by the structure of the 
How r, Masi: miliana seems to me to a rather a 
section * the aha tp ew than a nee eros terised genus itself. 
Obs. 3.—Dr. Rodriguez (l.c.) has given rth name of Cocos equa- 
torialis = seg species. io quote his reasons, which seem to me to need 
no com 
“ Fain a ne speciem descripseram quum Dr. Trail Enumerationem 
Palmarum Sprucii on in qua describitur species quedam 
Bomindieens naja- ostquam brevissiniam le pemrntioner, 
uasum at: ‘eandem esse speciem, de qua locutus s 
reterquam quod ad genus Cocos pertinet, etiam nomine He 
Tnasey caret, quod ut indagavi in provincia ignotum est.” 
quote Dr. Rodriguez’s description of this species. 
sgh Caves aquatorialis.—Stipite 8™ alto, inermi, semiflexuo 
ibus erectis, inferioribus us patentibus curvis, inzequaliter ere ; 
roe Begone os, acuminatis, recurvis, 3-4-nativis, alternis et ad 
en oppositis. Drupa oblonga, vitellina.” 
Genus wo Ci.xin, Jaeq. 
Subgenus Bareella, a moneecei in eodem nls foi 
alveolis profundis 2-natim dispositis, eonfertis, ¢ sparsioribus; spadice 
longe pedunculato. is ere 
