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PLANTAE MONOCOTYLEDONEAE

Subclassis I.

SPADICIFLOME Marti.

(Meisn. Gener, piant, vasoul. I. 353. II. 264.)

Ordo CCXXVIL PALMAE Unn.

(Endl. Gener, piant, p. 244. Suppi. I. p. 1370. II. p. 24. III. p. 03. — Meisn. Gener, piant,vascul. 1. 354. 11. 204. — Kuth. Enumer. piant, onm. III. p. 1G8. 593. et 037.)

Tribus I. ARECINAE Martius, — Knth. 1. c. 170.

I. CIIAJIAEDOUEA Wittd.

(Knth. Enumer. III. 170.)

1. *CH. ELEGANS Martius. — Knth. 1, c. 171. no. 3.

p. angusti folia Martens & Galeotti, Bullet, de Bruxelles X. 1. p. 122. — PinnisHnearManceolatis. — Crescit in Mexlco.

VIII. OENOCAHPIS Martius.

(Kuth. Enumer. 111. 179.)

I. OE. UTILIS KHzsch. Llnnaea XX. 447. — Caudice gracili nudo ; frondibus sparsis

25*jugis; rhachibus stipiteque triangularibus, adpresse fuseo-squamulosis ; pinnis ses-silibus linearibus longissime acuminatis; spathis longissimis subulatis; spadice fructi-fera rubente; baccis globosis nigris; seminis albumine radiatim striato, in sicco fusco-marmorato. — Crescit in colonia Tovar Columbiae.

XV. IRIARTEA llz. & Pav.

(Knth. Enumer. III, 194.)

1. I. PRAEMORSA Kltzsch. Llnnaea XX. 448. •£ -— Caudice elato cylindrico glabroaequali; frondibus terminalibus paucis pinnatis; pinnis irregulariter rhombeis, anticeremote sinuato-dentatis alternis remotis, terminali magna, cuneatim flabellata, anticedentato-truncata, Integra aut bifida; spadicibus 10—20 dioicis; baccis ovatis exsuccissubrugosis e viridi nigricantibus. — Crescit ad Puerto Cabello, Colouia Tovar Co-lumbiae.

XVII\ DRYMOPIILAEBS Zippel.

(Zippei ex Hsskrl. Catal. pl. hort. Bogor. 63.)

Palma Caryotae affinis, bacca monosperma; differt ab illa filamentis

brevissimis basi liberis, anthcris linearibus, bacca monosperma, semine