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the seeds and the form of the primordial leaves. But there are yet several 

 species of which the fruit is unknown, and probably it will be a long time 

 before the nature of the primordial leaves of all of these is ascertained. 



Euterpe globosa Gaertn. Fruct. et Sem. t. 24 (excl. syn. Rumphii) t. IX. 

 E. brevivaginata Mart. Hist. nat. Palm. Ill, p. 309. E. montana 

 Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3874.t E, manaele Gris. et Wendl. ex Gris. PI. 

 Wright. 530 n. 1468, et Cat. pi. p. 222. E, oleracea (non Mart.) Gris. 

 Fl. Brit. W. Ind. 517. Acrista monticola O. F. Cook in Bull. Torrey 

 Bot. Club, XXVIII (1901), p. 557, t. 46; Urban, Symb. ant. IV, p. 129. 

 Prestoea montana Nichol. Diet. Ill (1886), p. 216 (ex Ind. Kew) ; Nich. 

 et Mottet, Diet. d'Hort. (1895-96), IV, p. 319. Oreodoxa manaele Mart. 

 Hist. nat. Palm, III, p. 310. 



I consider as belonging to the typical E. globosa of Gaertner the speci- 

 mens collected by Wright in the East of Cuba (n. 1468) and distributed under 

 the name of E. manaele Gris. et H. Wendl. I have seen a specimen of these 

 in the Herbarium de CandoUe, consisting of only two leaflets and of one 

 branchlet of the spadix with quite ripe fruits. The leaflets are apparently 

 taken from about the middle of an adult leaf (which was certainly a large one), 

 are broadly ensiform or very elongate-lanceolate, of a firm papery or thinly 

 coriaceous texture, 90 cm. long, 6-6.5 cm. wide, obliquely inserted on the rachis 

 by a rather narrow base, the margins there being strongly reduplicate; they 

 narrow gradually upwards from about the middle, then taper rather suddenly 

 to a slight asymmetrical apex, are green on upper surface and slightly paler 

 underneath ; the mid-costa is robust, considerably prominent and acute on both 

 surfaces and is interruptedly covered on the lower by appressed brown scales ; 

 on each side of the mid-costa are 4-5 unequal and more or less distinct sec- 

 ondary nerves ; of these one or two, also on each side, are often stronger than 

 the others, so as to render the leaflets sub-3-5-costulate, especially in their 

 terminal portions; the tertiary nerves are not very numerous and not very 

 sharp; the margins are considerably thickened; the transverse veinlets are 

 barely visible or quite obsolete. 



The branchlet of the spadix is 45 cm. long, and apparently furnished with 

 a basal axillary callus; it has the glomeruli of flowers disposed all round in 

 4-5 longitudinal series ; it is 6 mm. in diameter in its lower part, and gradually 

 narrows above ; is rigid, terete, glabrous, reddish brown, finely wrinkled, very 

 slightly sinuous between the glomerules, and bears the flowers superficially, 

 and not inserted in pits or scrobiculi. 



The flowers appear, from the scars left after their fall, to be three-nate 

 (the central flowers being female and the side ones males) in the lower part; 

 they are geminate above but only male. The pulvinuli or scrs left by the 

 fallen female flowers (or fruits) are quite superficial and flat, oblong and 

 surrounded by the usual bracteoles, which are small and form a very narrow 

 membranous ring around the scars; the lower general bract is small, also 

 membranous, rounded and very similar to the floral bracteoles; the scars of 



tPlate 7797 of the "Botanical Magazine" is possibly a representation of this species; in 

 this it bears the name of Exorrhiza Wendlandiana Becc. 



