238 TlMEHRI. 
[£. acaulis, Mart: 
According to SCHOMBURGK this grows in the Canakoo 
mountains, and in moist spots in the savannah region, 
flowering in January and February.] 
\G. arundinacea, Mart : 
Distributed throughout the country, according to 
SCHOMBURGK, and flowering in January and February.] 
[G. baculifera, [Kunthl).~\ 
Local Name. 
Arawak Dahlibanna. 
Specimens of this plant I sent to Professor Trail 
from the Corentyn River, where, as on many other 
of our rivers, it is very abundant. His m. s. note on 
it is that it is G. baculifera == G. acutiflora, Mart. The au- 
thority for the species ' baculifera 1 seems to be KuNTH. I 
am not sure whether Dr. Trail means that G. baculifera, 
Kunth and G. acutiflora, Mart: are identical; and, in 
the absence of books of reference, I am quite unable to 
test this point. SCHOMBURGK, I see, gives in his list of 
palms both G. acutiflora, Kunth, and G. baculifera* 
Mart. I have only included one of these two in the 
present list, which I have called baculifera, with a 
doubtful authority, but which is identical with G. acuti- 
flora, Mart. 
The plant varies in height from 2 or 3 ft. to 7 or 8. 
The leaf is sometimes simple, sometimes partially pin- 
nate and sometimes regularly pinnate, all three forms 
occasionally occurring on one and the same plant. 
Aerial roots are sometimes sent out from the joints of 
the stem, even from the highest. Young shoots also 
