258 TlMEHRI. 
plant certainly occurs, and frequently, in the coast tra6l. 
[B. pectinata, Mart : 
Occurs, according to SCHOMBURGK, in the Canakoo 
mountains, flowering in January and February.] 
B. simplicifrons, Mart : 
After referring to my notes on this plant given above 
in connection with B. mitis, Mart, I will here only add 
Griesbach's description of B. simplicifrons, Mart, in the 
hope that this may help to clear up the confusion be- 
tween the two species. It is as follows : — 
" Wholly devoid of prickles, except on the margin of 
the leaf-summits ; trunk low (3'-6' high, the leaves in- 
cluded), arundinaceous : leaves 2-fid, entire : divisions 
oblong, curved-acute, broadly adnate at the flat base, di- 
verging in an acute angle ; spadix simple, short, nodding ; 
inner spathe as long, glabrescent; drupe small, sub-globose. 
— Leaf divisions, 10" — 12" long, 2\" — 3" broad at the mid- 
dle and at the base : prickles black, setaceous, 2'" — 3'" 
long: petiole 3" — 6" spadix 1" — 2" long, the latter shortly 
peduncled : drupe " red," 3'" diam., with a truncate point. 
SCHOMBURGK'S account of B. simplicifrons, Mart : is 
that it occurs on the Barima, Demerara, and on creeks, 
and flowers in May and June. 
B. trichospatha, Trail. 
Local Name. 
Arawak. . .Bunya-seri.* 
* Bunya is the name of a bird (Galbula) ; seri seems first to mean any- 
thing pointed, as a spine, and then to mean 'a spine-bearing plant' : 
cf., as regards this extension of meanings, our local word 'pimpler 
and also the English word ' thorn,' which both mean either a prickle or 
a plant bearing prickles. 
