Field notebook : Guatemala
Page 163
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Harvard University Botany Libraries. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
156. Biceious? male. Slender, with =156 235 thick leaves, labrous & shining, [pinnate] pinnate. Spikes at base of leaves 158.? Same & female. Stouter, less =234 strongly scarred, less shining or less regularly pinnate. Pannicle compact stout, common color, below leaves. 172. "Cabbage Palm". Tall & slender - 30°- 60° pinnate. pinnated spikes at the lower leaves, very large 173. Slender, 6-10°, labrous, pinnate very slender panicles from the leaves. fruit labours, reddish 191. Dwarf, slender, nearly glabrous, bifid. spike greenish, straight or curved. 199. Macro Caranne. Stem straight, 6-15°, very slimny, spines black & flattened. Lvs glabrons beneath, irregularly pinnate, Sheaths tornbose. Panicles bisexual, among the leaves. fruit sparing. Spikes nearly naked at top