i i e o - f u s c i , Di'upac cavnosac, colore
o l j s c u r c colo rut is.
, flavo, minialo vel rubro, pula
S T A T I O ET IlABIT.iTIO. Spccies imjus generis iiUer Iropicos in America et Africa
cleguiiL, praeicrlim locis calidis campeslribus, solo argillaceo ci calcoreo gaudcnles.
ELAEIS GUTJSEENSIS. Tab. 54. 66.
E. caudice erecto, patioUs spinoso-scrratis, pinnis linear i-lanceolalls aculis subtus concolorihus,
anther is linecirlbus, drupis oralis subangulatis.
EL.IEIS AUINEENSIS, frondibus pinnalis, slipitibus dentalo-spinosis divergeiiiibus, denticulis
siiprcinis recurvalis. Lin. I\lant. p. 157. Spec, pi, ed. W i l l J, IV, p. 799. Per s . Encli. 11.
G22, Jaccj. Ainer, p, 280. t. 1T2,; edit. pici. p. 136. I. 2j7. Gaevtii. <le fiucl. el som. I. p. i7.
i.O. Lam. 111. I. 896. R. Bro-*vn in Tuckey Congo p. 45.).
Frttcltis Palnine yldil, CI u s . Exot. p, 57. F. 5. (niiclens e pulamine exemUis),
Pcdma Guineae, J. Bauh, Hist. I, p. 369. Palma Adii, ibidem p, 386.
Palina coccifcra ex Guinea, C. Bauli, Pin. edit, 1671. p. 509,
Palma nucífera guineensis, Jon st. Dcndr, edit. 1768. p. i54- Hi s t . II, p, i554-
Palma foliorum pedicuUs spinosis, fructu pruniformi luteo oleoso, SI o an e Cat. Jam, p. i75.
1,214. (spadix fruclifcr). Hist. II. p. 113. — .'Miller Garlenlex. Palma n. 6.
Palma A voir a, Aubl. Flor. Guj. Suppl. p. 95.
nESCniPTlO. RAT
compacl.ae, qui irurdmn
S subsimplices,
?rra prominet.
digili
CAUOEX rolnistas, a<lultiis in viginti ad triginta pedum aitiludioom cvectus ct tunc crassitic iiisignis,
sacpc diamelro uitrnpcdali, rucliis, fi ondi 11 in dclapsu superficie inaccjualis grosse et profunde anniilntus, in
supcriore parto plcrumijuo fruslis poliolurum supcrstitibus obsessus.
FiíOíiDES dnodecim ad quindecirn, immo ad viginti et quod exccdil, c ree to-pa ten Ics alquein coraara Spcctabilcm
conspirantes, dccem- ad (¡uindceimpcdales. Petioli basi ovato-lanceo lai a sessilcs, infra pinnas, quae
quatuor abinde pedum longitudine adstanU, dorso conveN;i, intus planiiiseuli, margine spinis validis inagnis
aculis nitidis I'uscis serrati, quorum supremi liamati ct recurvi sunt, inlcrmcdii recti, infimi patuli et duplo
rcUquis longiorcs Sacpc, praescrtim in icrrn pingui, apice foliacei; in rachi dorso convexi, intus postice
planiuseuli atque utrinque suico pro pinnis marginali cxarati, antice bifaeialcs, obseurc ct fusco-virides,
glabri, prìmum passim fusco-griseo-lepidoto-tomentosi, l'innac in quovis latere qujnquaginta ct plurcs, (Irmac,
sesquipedales, bipedalcs et longiores, scsquìpolliccm voi duos la tac, lineari-laneeolatac vcl lanceolatae, acuLae,
nervo medio superne acuto prominulo pallidiore, secundariis in quovis luterò subsenis, quorum nltcrni supra
vel subtus sunt impressi, Inotc Tirides, subtus pallidiorcs, glabrae, practer marginom, qui bine inde tomento
lepidoto fusco-cìnerasconte tandem evanescente adspersus est.
SPADICES masculi ct foeminei mixto intor frondes provenicnlcs. numero vario, interdum odo ct plurrs.
Spatliae pvimum fusiformes vol obovalao, pcdcm et quod excodit lengac, epidermide fusca glabra, erumpenibus
spadicibus in fibras rigidiusculas subsimplices dilaccratae, atque tandem oblilcratac. Spadicis masculi
ped un cuius qnadri-sexpollicaris, compresso-teres, tomento fusco-cervino obsilus atquc b rao Lei s
nonnullis lanccojalis acuminalis conaocis longitudinali ter norvosis fuscis inunitus. Rami plurimi, octoginta,
quiiiccn.^LS.