226 TlMEHRI. 
A. tucumoides. Drude ... ... „ 
A. milgare. Mart : (teste Schk.) ...Forest and sandstone. 
Acrocomia lasiospatha. Mart :... ...Forest. 
A. sclerocarpa. Mart : (teste Schk.) ...Forest and sandstone. 
Martinezia caryotcefolla. H.&K. (teste S) ,, 
Elais melanococca. Gaertn : (teste Schk).. Forest. 
Maximiliana Martiana. Karst : ...Throughout the colony. 
Attalea funifera. Mart: (teste Schk.) ...Forest. 
A. speciosa. Mart : (teste Schk.) ...Forest and savannah. 
Orbignia Sagotii. 12 Trail ... ...Forest. 
Tribe I. ARECE^. 
[' Leaves pinnate, leaflets with the sides reflexed before unfolding. 
Flowers unisexual, often in threes (one female between two males)." 
Hooker.'] 
Sub-tribe I. ONCOSPERMEyE. 
[" Spadix flowering below the leaves ; spathes 2. Flowers monoe- 
cious ; males symmetrical or not, with broad imbricate sepals, females 
with imbricate petals. Ovary i -celled, i-ovuled. Fruit with eccentric 
lateral or basal stigmas — Old and new world palms, often spinous.'* 
Hooker.'] 
Genus I. HYOSPATHE. 
[" Perigone exterior, male cupular, 3-fid, female 3-partite : interior 
in both sexes 3-phyllous. Stamens 6 .- no rudimentary organs in female. 
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 flattish, often 
several cohering ; spadix lateral below the leaves, simply branched, 
equalling the inner spathe : branches spreading, thickened at the base : 
flowers sessile : bracts obsolete ; ' berry ovoid' ".Griesbach.] 
\H. elegans, Mart: According to SCHOMBURGK this 
plant occurs in the forest region, in the Canakoo moun- 
tains, in the sandstone region, in the Hurnirida moun- 
tains and in thin coppices on the savannahs. It is said 
to flower in August and September.] 
Genus II. EUTERPE. Gwrtn. 
[" Perigone exterior and interior 3-phyllous. Stamens 6 ; no, or 
1S A new sp. named, but possibly not yet published, by Prof. Trail. 
