130 PALMS OF THE AMAZON VALLEY. 
sufficient to permit of their identification with any approach to oe 
’ tainty, and in — case of some it is hardly possible even to guess at 
their affinitie 
Of the species described by Dr. Spruce (in Journal of the Linn. 
Soc., vol. xi.), G calgon Spruce = G. oF sey ead M G. discolor, 
itiflo v 
0 e ra’ 
of the spadix, in the more distinctly Serene arrangement of the 
aivecli (in G. Wagrensis: >: 6-stichous), an andreeceum of the 
? flower being 3-crenate at the mouth street of 6-lobed. The las 
n 
shown elsewhere, is not to be relied on as of more than subspecific 
value. My conclusion therefore is that Geonoma multiflora, Mart.= 
G. Paraense, Spruce (l.c., p. 120), and includes var. discolor, Spruce 
(sp.) (Le., p. 117), subsp. Wegrensis, Spruce (sp.) e GC. p- 120), subsp. 
hexasticha, ‘iodine (sp.) (l.c., pp. 116-7). G.m ltiflora, Mart., itself 
comes very near ee Gynestum maximum, =Phitest (Mém. du Musée 
@ Hist. Nat. ix., i 
G. macrapata, 'spaios (1.c., p. 114), is mola a variety of @. 
acutiflora, Mart. —= Gynestum baculi iferum, Poiteau. Specimens col- 
lected by myself (Trail hb. Palm. 34, 50, 124, 180, &c. ) at numerous 
localities show an unbroken chain of forms connecting the two extreme 
forms. Poiteau’s name for this species has the priority of Martius’s, and 
is accompanied by a good figure and a good description; hence it 
must take precedence, so that the synonymy becomes—Geonoma bacu- 
eee  Caemacton m baculiferum, Poit.) — Geonoma acutiflora, Mart., and 
cludes G. macrospatha, Bree (ep. 
‘ions pened Ruiz nO 8 (Socratea) woken: Mart. (Hist 
Palm. ii, p. 3 8) and ir ‘(asete) Orbigniana, Mart. (Pa almet. 
Faia pe Ts, & , B.), should, I believe, tere regarded as local 
of one mpeciod ‘the differentiating points ‘being the entire pinnz, 
5-6 pathos and rather larger nuclei of the fruits in the former, as 
ich siti 
from the one to the other, beaiong more like Orbigutata father up 
riv 
- philonotia, Barb. Rod. (l.c., p. 13), is simply the inter- 
mediate form from Obydos, with some of the pinne divided in 
two or three lacinis, the lowest ladies as usual being broad, the 
others pai 
Rod. (Lc., pp. 13-14) = 7. pruriens, Spruce 
MSS. (l.c., pp. p 1968) — 7 (riartell a) setigera, Mart. Dr. Spruce (L.c., 
p. 13 7 after a full description of a Palm —— he rightly a 
