450 
Tribus IH. BORASSINAE Mart., Endi., Kanth. 
Pinnatifrondes Mart., Endl., Kunth, 
Geonoma Willd., Mart., Endl., Kanth, 
@. simplieifrons Willd, Caudice arundinaceo, annu- 
1sto, 3—8-pedali; frondibus terminalibas, paueis, obovalis, 
submwembranaceis, apice biidis, basi attenuatis, tandem 2 
—3—4-juge- pinnalifissis; laciniis oppositis, adnatis, re- 
moetis, falontis, longissime-acuminatis; spadicibus rufo- 
fascis gracilibus, simpliter ramosis; ramis tennibns I—4, 
alternis; alveolis margine integerrimis, 4— 5- farıam imhri- 
vatis; baeeis parvis, globosis, brevissime apiculatis, e viridi- 
nigricantibus, subrugulose -nitidis, Geonoma simplicifrons 
Willd. Memoires de ’Acadewie royale des sciences a Berlie 
1804. p.39. Spec. plant, IV. p, 594. n. 2. Schumacheriae 
species Karsten in lit, (Melinillum Incol.) Geonoma Willde 
mowii Klotzseh in Mohl ot Schlal, hot, Zeitg. 1846, n. 6. 
pP 101... 
Caudex arnndinacens, annnlatus, 3— 8 ped. longus, 
semipollicem erassus, radieibus e terra emersis et in eonum 
eonniventibus sustentus. Frondes terminales 3—4, ample- 
xieaules, membranaceae, laete-virides, obovatae, apice bi- 
fdae, basi attenuatae, subtus, praesertim ad rhachin costt- 
lasque flocculis membranaceis, fuscis secedentibus conspersa®, 
2/-—3 ped, longne, 7—-11 poll. latae, tandem 2-, 3—#- 
juge-pinnatifissae, Laeiniaa falcatae, longissime aenminatae, 
ad basin 2-3 poll. latae. Venulae 4— 6, inter costulas 
parallelas. Stipes erassitie pennae Anserinae, pedem longns, 
trigonus, Spadix simpliciter ramosus, 1—1?/, ped. longus. 
Stipes 6—8 poll, longus, rufo-fuscus, crassitudine pennae 
corvinae ad crassitudinem pennae Anserinae, rngulosus. Ra- 
mi 3—4 erecto-subdiyarieati, alterni, aitenualim - stipital, 
