STANDLEY AND STEYERMARK: FLORA OF GUATEMALA 269

Tuerckheim 8332 from

Cubilgiiitz,
Alta
Verapaz,
which is refer-
able
here,
was
reported
from Guatemala as G.
multiflora Mart.,
a
South American
species.
Burret used for this
species
the name
Geonoma
oxycarpa Mart.,
which is a different
species,
of Haiti
(see
L. H.
Bailey,
Gentes Herb. 4: 260.
1939).
Lundell has
reported
from
Pete*n the names
"moxan," "cambo,"
and
"uatapil"
as in use for a
plant
referred to this
species.
In Honduras the
young
inflorescences
of the Geonomas sometimes are cooked and eaten like those of
Chamaedorea. The leaves of various
species
are often used as
thatch,
at least for
temporary
shelters.
Geonoma
polyneura Burret,
Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin 11:
500. 1932.
Moist or
wet,
mountain
forest,
2500 meters or
lower;
Alta Vera-
paz (type
from Finca
Sepacuite",
0. F. Cook & R. F.
Griggs 36);
Zacapa (Sierra
de las
Minas).
Caudex
stout,
about 3 cm. in
diameter;
blades
apparently large, thin, slightly
paler beneath,
the
segments several-nerved, falcate, narrowly long-acuminate,
the
terminal
segments
10 cm. wide or
more,
about 40 cm.
long, 15-nerved,
the middle
and lower
segments narrower,
as much as 55 cm.
long,
some of them
12-nerved;
spadix
40 cm.
long
or
more,
twice
branched,
the branched
portion
21-23 cm.
long,
the rachis 13 cm.
long,
the
spathes robust,
15 cm.
long
or
more,
2.5-3.5 cm.
wide,
the
upper
one inserted 2.7 cm. above the
lower; primary
branches of the
spadix
10-11,
the lower 2-4
again branched,
the branches
spreading,
at first fuscous-
pilose,
the ultimate branches 2-2.5 mm. in
diameter,
not
spinose
at the
tip; pits
arranged spirally
in about 5
series,
12 mm.
apart, bilabiate,
the lower
lip
somewhat
protracted,
the
upper
one
conspicuously produced;
flowers about 3.5 mm.
long,
large
for the
genus.
Geonoma Seleri
Burret,
Bot. Jahrb. 63: 211. 1930. Cum
(Que-
zaltenango) ; Kiang (San Marcos) ;
Box
(Huehuetenango) ;
Pamaca
(Zacapa).
Moist or
wet, mixed,
mountain
forest,
1300-2300
meters,
or
sometimes
lower; endemic;
Alta
Verapaz
(between
Sepacuite"
and
Panzos); Zacapa (Sierra
de las
Minas); Quezaltenango (Volcan
de
Santa
Maria) ;
San Marcos
(Volcan
de
Tajumulco) ; Huehuetenango
(type
from forests of
Yalambohoch,
Seler
2757;
also near
Maxbal).
Figure
44.
Plants 3-9 meters
high,
the caudex 2.5-7.5 cm. in
diameter, conspicuously
an-
nulate;
leaves
large, long-petiolate,
the blades
unequally pinnatisect,
the
segments
numerous,
the terminal ones united with the rachis for 11-13
cm., 11-12-nerved,
the lower
segments
of
unequal breadth, mostly 3-nerved, rarely 1-nerved,
as much
as 55 cm.
long; spadix
twice
branched, recurved, densely
brownish-tomentulose at
first, glabrate
in
age; upper spathe
inserted 6 cm. above the lower
one; peduncles
FlG. 44. Geonoma Seleri.
a,
Basal
portion
of leaf
(X V&)- b,
Middle section
of leaf
(X V)-
c A
P
ex of leaf
(
x
V). d,
Portion of
spadix (X
2
A)- , Young
spadix
and
spathe (X V)- /,
F 1*
(X H)-
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