516 PALM^. 



is still unlmoivn. Leaf-segments united to about one-tentli, 5' long, 18"'-20"' broad 

 about the middle, reduplicate-complicate, ll-lS-nerved : midrib sharply keeled on the upper 

 side ; pricUes 6"'-12"' distant, greenish ; spathes in both sexes obliquely infundibular at the 

 8"'-6''' broad, repand-subtruncate summit, 6"'-4"' broad at the base; 3 aments li"-3" 

 long : their rhachis about 4'" thick ; exterior i perigone repand-eutire, 3'" long, equalling 

 the bracts, interior segments hard-leatheiy, pnbernlous, lanceolate-oblong, bluntish, 5'" long, 

 valvate, exceeding the oblong anthers. — Hab. Trinidad!, Cr., gregarious and forming -the 

 chief vegetation in the swampy parts of the island ; Barbadoes ? {Mayc^. 



SUBTRIBE III. EUTSBPEM. —Flowers unisexual (moruecious in the same spadix in the 

 West Indian genera). Fruit smooth. Leaves pinnattsect, rarely subentire : segments 

 reduplicate (orflai). 



5. HYOSPATHE, Mart, 



Perigone exterior $ eupular, 3-fid, ? .3-partite : interior in both sexes 3-phyllous. Sta- 

 mens 6 : no rudimentary ones in ? . Ovary 3-celled ; stigmas 3, sessile " above the base 

 of the fruit. Berry 1-seeded. Albumen entire ; embryo lateral above its base." — Unarmed 

 palms ; " trunk arundinaceous, annulate ;" leaf-segments flatfish, often several cohering ; 

 spadix lateral below the leases, simply branched, equalling the inner spathe : branches 

 spreading, thickened at the base ■■ flowers sessile : bracts obsoiete ; " berry ovoid." 



10. H. pubigera, Gr. and Wendl. (». sp). Le.af-segments linear-acuminate, inferior 

 distinct, superior more or less cohering and forming oblong or oblong-linear blades ; pedun- 

 cle and rhachis of the spadix tomeniose, at length puberulous : branches 20-30 ; rudiment 

 of the pistil in $ columnar, as long as the stamens. — Trunk 10'-12' high (&•.); petioles 

 more than 3', leaves 3'-4' long, green with pale nerves, glabrous, chartaceous ; inferior seg- 

 ments somewhat distant, li'-2' long, 3"' broad, cohering ones i"-3" broad ; exterior spalhe 

 2-koeled, 5", interior 12"-15", peduncle 4"-3", inferior spadix-branches about 6" long, the 

 latter much thickened at the base, rigid-spreading ; glomerulies somewhat distant: flowers 

 i"'-li"' long. — ^Hab. Trinidad!, Or., gregarious, covering neaily exclusively the summit of 

 one of the highest mountains near Tocucbe. 



6. JESSENIA, Karst. 



Perigone exterior and interior 3 -phyllous, the interior in $ much longer than the exterior. 

 Stamens " 20 "-9 : no rudimentary ones in $ . Ovary 3-celled : stigmas 3, terminal, 

 "slightly excentrical in fruit" (^e»i^^.). JBerry ^ -sasiei. " Albumen rummaie : embryo 

 axil at its base." — High, unarmed palms ; leaves pinnaiisect ; spadix simply branched ; 

 branches long, much exceeding the conical-acuminate rJiachis : flowers sunk into concavities : 

 bracts obsolete; " berry ovoid." 



11. J. oligocarpa, Or. and Wendl, (». sp). Leaf-segments lanceolate-linear, acu- 

 minate, alternate, glaucous beneath ; stamens 9-12 ; fertile flowers confined to the lowest 

 part of the spadix-branches. — Of allied species /. potycarpa, Karst., is said to have the 

 pinnse twice as broad, opposite, acute, stamens 16-20, (Enocarpus Batava, Mart., pinnae 

 not glaucous beneath, opposite, acute, stamens 6 ; from both It is distinguished by the small 

 number of $ flowers. Leaf-segments wholly reduplicate, glabrous, chai-taceous, green above, 

 whitish-glaucous beneath, 2f long, 3" broad ; spadix-branches fastigiate, 24' long : $ flowers 

 single, subdistant, conflned to one-tenth to one-sixth of the whole branch, (J more contiguous ; 

 inner (J perigone H"'long, valvate: ? flowers subglobose, 2"'-3"' : both perigones subequal, 

 imbricate. — Hab. Trinidad!, O. ("Palma de Jagua"). 



7. EUTERPE, Mart. 



Perigone exterior and interior 3-phyllous. S(a«tens6: no or "minute" rudimentary 

 ones in $. Ooary 3-celled : stigmas 3, sessile, lateral, cxcentrical in frnit. jBer/y 1 -seeded, 

 fibrous. .4 /feweffl ruminate ; embryo basilar. — High, unarmed palms; leases pinnatisect ; 

 segments flailish 1 spadix lateral below the leaves, simply branched, equalling the inner 

 spathe: branches long, fastigiate, at length spreading .- flowers sunk into concavities, brac- 

 teolate ; berries globose. 



