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pedalia, 1/,—% pollices lata, Jauceolata vel cuneata, acumi- 
nata, basi inaequaliter lata et plana, eireiter 12 — 15 ntrin- 
que. rarhi Iateraliter affıxa, longitudinaliter costato -nervosa, 
Hlarcida, tenuia, dilute viridia, reclinata; rachis e petiolo bre- 
vissimo, canalioulato, basi vaginante, face interiore inferne 
vonvexa, superne acnte carinata, dorso voncavo- planiuseula; 
vagina ovato-triangularis, externe rosea virescens, intus luteo- 
rufa, breviter et laxiuseule caudieis gemmam amplecteus. — 
Inflorescentia infra vagiuas inferiores , spathis duabus cadueis 
teeta; spadix dnplo ramosus, horizontaliter patens, apice nu- 
taus, 2!/,-pedalis, petioli froetiferi basis sublanata eaudicem 
amplectens, rosra, supra ramuligue virides, pedieelli superne 
divisi in ramulos 3-- 4, suboppositos, 8-pollicares, 
Flores in alveolis profunde immersi, 7-fariam imbricati; 
alveoli Jabium inferins emarginato -bilobum, superius semi- 
eironlare integrum. 
Flos masc.? 
Flos foeminens, %, — %, in alveolo immersus, mwargari- 
tae vitrene similis, parum apertus; calyx roseus, triphylius, 
sepalis imbricatis, elliptieis, basi obtusata, pari-acuminatis, 
apice multi-striatis, eoncavis, subenrinalis;  vorolla trilida, 
rosea, tnbo medioeri angusiato, lobis tnbo majoribus, sepala 
subnequantibus, parum inlatis, apive. valvatis, inferne imbri- 
eatinsenlis; urceolus staminens columnaris antheris destitutus, 
sexdentatus, pistillum arete ambiens; ovarinm triloeulare, sub- 
slobosum, stylus basilaris staminum rudinentum aequansz 
stigana trilebum, lobis replieatis. 
Creseit laxe gregaria in silvis montosis umbrosis, bawi- 
dis alque frigidis, infra arborum sylvaticaram ramos iR Pro- 
eia Tachira. . 
- Ab incolis „Palmita“ voratur, 
Florescens mense Derembri. 
