" Tongum attenuato, ore intrego subobliquo, mnltistriolate 
viridi-v. griseo-fusco puberulo; earyopsi grandiuscula 
obovata obtusissima, basi contracta, compresso-triquetra 
obsolete granulata pallida lineam eire. longa. 
H. irrigua N. ab E. 1. 8 ec. t. 50. — Putterlickia 
irrigua Ejd. herb. 
Brasilia, ad fumen Japur& prov. fl. Nigri (Martius). 
3. M. microcephala Beklir. 
Rhizomate elongato duro pennam gallinaceam crasso, 
fibrilis validis lignosis purpureo-brunneis; scapis e rAizo- 
matis capite ortis filiformibus 12 — 9 poll. altis, basi vaginis 
3 — 4 brevibus efollatis atropurpureis ore obliquis laze ve- 
stitis, triangularibusstriatis hirtello-scabridis rufo-purpureis ; 
foliis herbaceis viridibus patentibus lineari -lanceolatis 
obtusis superne planis 6 — 8 lin. lat. nervis tribus pro- 
minnlis, margine superne nervisque subscabris, basin ver- 
tus valde angustatis canalieulatisve, 1 — 1!/, ped. long.; 
vaginis abbreviatis di/afatis erispato-birtellis atropurpureis;; 
umbella pluri- (6-) radiata; radiis erectis capillari-getaceis 
valde inaequalibus coloratis puberulo-seabridis Yı, — 1! 
poll. longis, centrali sessili, v. simplieibus monocephalis, 
v. raro cyınoso-uniramosis dicepbalis (tune elongatis); 
involueri diphylli foliolis brevibus subaequalibus (9 — 10 
lin. long.) lineari-lanceolatis scabridis sanguineis; eapitulis 
globosis 2'/, Tin. diam.; spiculis compositis numerosis per- 
minutis dense dispositis, masculis leviter incurvis quam 
foeminea !/, brevioribus; utrieulo 71/, Tin. longo ex ovato 
superne sensim attenuato, triangulari, ore integro, squa- 
misque -hirtellis stramineo — ferrugineis. — Hostmann. 
coll. n. 854. 
Surinam. 
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