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This paper on South American palms, by Messrs. O. F. Cook and C. B. Doyle of the Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agriculture, is chicfly devoted to descriptions of three new genera of the family Iriarteaceae and the three new species which serve as generic types. All three genera were found in the forests of the Pacific coast of Colombia, near Buenaventura, in a region that seems not to have been visited by earlier students of this group of plants. The specimens, with notes, measurements, and photographs, were secured in 1905, when Mr. Doyle accompanied Prof. H. Fittier, also of the Bureau of Plant Industry, during a visit of agricultural ex ploration in Colombia.
As much of the literature of the palms is based on rather frag mentary information, these more complete data, drawn from fresh material, will be appreciated. One of the results of the present study is to show the desirability of a subdivision of the family Iriarteaceae into three tribes, a synopsis of which is included. Synopses and de scriptions are also given of the genera and species of the two tribes in which the new genera are placed.
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