240 TlMEHRI. 
being in large pieces, it can be taken off a house and put 
on again, with very little trouble. I have known an 
Indian who had two houses, one being for occasional use 
up a distant creek, carry with him the dahlibanna thatch 
from one house to the other on the occasions of his 
changing his residence. 
The long stem of this palm, or at least of the palm, 
which is I think this, which grows so abundantly on the 
Morooka, is much used by the more civilized Indians for 
making very neat and extraordinarily durable wattled 
partitions in, and fences round, their houses. 
The pretty jointed stems of this and other Geonomas 
are well known in Europe as walking sticks ; but I am 
not aware that any have been exported from this colony 
for that purpose. 
\G. deversa, Kunth, 
According to SCHOMBURGK, this occurs in the moist 
forests of the Pomeroon and Barima, flowering in 
February.] 
[G. elegans, Mart : 
According to SCHOMBURGK, this occurs in the moist 
forests of the Essequibo and Pomeroon flowering in 
February.] 
\_G. laxiflora, Mart : 
According to SCHOMBURGK, occurs in the Canakoo 
mountains and in moist spots on the savannah, flowering 
in January and February.] 
\G. macrostachys, Mart : 
According to SCHOMBURGK, occurs in the Canakoo 
mountains, flowering in February.] 
