685 
Bacca glohosa pisi magnitudine, nigra, phyllis perigo- 
nialibus sustenta, styli rudimento parum apieulata, pericarpio 
tenui, atro -sanguineo, testa dilnte sanguinea semen globosum 
involvens ; embryo minntissimas in albnmine osseo albo- coeru- 
leo suhbasilaris, 
Creseit in ailvis temperatis umbrosis altitudine 4--- 5000' 
supra mare, gregaria. Ah ineolis „Babiatadira“ nominatur. 
Floret et matnrat mense Januario. 
Geonoma Marggraffia *), 
Palma arundinacea, 8—10-pedalis, pollieis diametro; 
folia 5— 6, ovalia, 3-pedalia, subreetangulari- patentia, pin- 
natisecla; segmentis irregulariter utringue 8 —- 10-seclis,' 8 
—10-polliearibus, basi lata sessilibas, 4%, —Y,, 1% poll. 
latis, acutis, interdam pancifissis, multinerviis, nervis lepido- 
tiusenlis sub recto angulo e rachi exenrrentibus; petiolns 14 
—16-pollicaris, vagina brevis amplexicanlis. Inforescentia 
axillaris e spalhis daabus cadneis, multifissis emissa. 
Spadix dieicus, pedalis, superne in 5 — 6 ramos divi- 
us, verrucosiusculus, basi semi-lanala caudieem amplexans. 
Spadix mase.? 
Spadix foeminens, Flores in alveolis Y, sessiles, solita- 
rii, bracteati, 5-fariam imbricati. Calyx 8-phyllus, strami- 
Neo - purpurascens, pergamenns, sepalis duobns ovali-oblongis, 
concavd-carinalis sepalum unum inferne convexum, superne 
gibboso - concavum subampleetentibus, corolla triiida, tabo an- 
gustato, laciniis ovatis, parum concaris, strialis; ureeolus 
stamineus 6-dentatus columnaris pistillum ambiens; ovarium 
reniforme, planum, stylus basilaris utrienlaceus ad apicem 
dilatatus, stigma trilobum. 
m nn . 
*) Species in konorem vixi de optimis studiis bene meriti Franc. 
Kberh, Marggraf diota. 
