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dicis Iiypogaea novellas plantas cfforraant. MeduUa am^h, 

 Vasa striata in stratnm collccta. Radio? crassa^ pcrppndi-: 

 cnlaris, fusiformU, ratnosa, albicans, mcduJlosa, : strata 

 ligneo e rasis striatia formato medullam incluileufe, simili- 

 bus rasis intertextis mstructam. JProndes pinnatae apicem 

 caudicis coroiiaatcS) annaa yegefatione ofFormataej bast ^gva* 

 vUs crassis mimUac. Mhackis rcruatione iucurTO-cjrciua- 



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tim inrolufa^ foUoUs striolis faciebus aiiticis conrergenlibus 

 imbricatis* Stipes param tumidus, iuermisy subiude lit rha- 

 chis aculeol^tns, subteres vel augulatus, aulice bicanalicula-* 

 tas ant fere planus. jro?io/<x aUerna Tcl snboppos^ta, basi 

 (umefacta articulata, linearia, lanccolaia, oblongaj ovata, 

 plus minus inaeqiiilatora, basi ct apioe semper aliguid in- 

 aeqnalia, versus apicem plerumqne irregulariter serrnlata, 

 ncrvis plarimis parallelis, molHora, floxilia, non spinosa, 

 nascenfia nt rhachis pilis sparsis cito decidnis hand raro in- 

 etructa. -:- Organa genitaHa jam iu juniorlbua stirpibns 

 cfformata, dein satis copiose anmie protrusa at ledla admo- 

 dum evolutione simul cnm {rondibns incresceutia , pleramtj^ue 

 ex apice sed eli^am latcraliter e caudice erolata, atqne ita 

 etiam axes laterales sistentia. Coni mares femineis tennio- 

 res, cjliudracei vel orales, spadicihus dense imbricatis, ma- 

 tnris panlisper a se invicem recedentibns, extus fnsco- Tel 

 griseo-tomentosis, peduttculis glabris rel fomcntosis; Spa- 

 dices pedicellati apico mcraasati, lanugiuosi, infra verticis 

 protuberant Jam transverse dilatati, superna facie nudi^ infer- 

 na duos gernnt antherarum acervulos, antjieris flavis, sub- 

 globosisj tinilocnlaribns, solitariis «TeI sacpe iicxn basilari 

 binatis ant ternatis; pollen Gopiosnm pallidum. Coni femU 

 nei crassiprcs tomcnlosi, erecti, pcduiiculati* Spudices mi- 

 nori nnmero in singula spira, primo presso ooutigni, ,doin 



aliqnid recedcntes , inacqualiter transverse, hcxagoni) crasso- 



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coriaoei, stipifati. Siipremt stcriles corpus acuminatum in 



