230 TlMEHRI. 
swamps in the forest, where the ground is always 
saturated with water, E. stenophylla apparently does not 
occur. 
As regards its use, the cabbage is eatable and a drink 
may be prepared from the fruit, as in the case of E. 
edulis; but, unlike the latter species, the fronds are of 
little use as thatch and the stem which is said not to split 
so easily, is not often used. 
Genus III. LEOPOLDINIA. 
Flowers small, reddish, monoecious ; fruit a roundish one-seeded berry, 
yellowish-green ; leaves fine, pennatisect, trunk middle sized, straight, 
unarmed. 
\L. insignis, Mart : — According to SCHOMBURGK this 
occurs " on the Pomeroon, Barama and their tributaries." 
Yet, knowing these rivers well, I have never noticed any 
palm attributable to this genus.] 
[L.pu/chra, Mart : — This, writes SCHOMBURGK, occurs 
" on the banks of the Essequibo, Pomeroon, Barama and 
Barima." My comment on this statement must be the 
same as in the last case.] 
Genus IV. ffiNOCARPUS. 
Perigone exterior and interior 3-phyllous, imbricating in the female* 
stamens 6, (or 5), berry one-seeded, fibrous, innei spathe 5 ft, long, outer 
ird as long, spadix simply pinnate, branches numerous, pendent, leaves 
uninterruptedly pinnate, stem high, cylindrical, unarmed. 
CE. Bacaba, Mart, var xanthocarpa, Trail.* 
Local Names. 
Arawak Low 
Macoosi Koomeri 
* Schomburgk gives his plant as the typical OE. Bacaba, Mart : a form 
of which, though it very possibly occurs in Guiana, I have no experience. 
1 have, therefore only given Trail's variety xanthocarpa, which was 
collected by Jenman and myself on the Corentyn and which appears to be 
identical with the form wy common on the Essequibo and other rivers. 
