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apice capitata; capitulum convexum, sulcatum, pilosum, medio con= 

 strictum, vertice depressum, margine superiore crenulato. Antheraa 

 40-60, serie simplici sulcis capituli respondente circa ejus basin dense 

 verticillatae , subglobosse, connatae, 2-loculares, saepissime 2-porosse, 

 poris superpositis ; pollen ellipticum v. subglobosum, glutinosum. 

 Ovarium inferum, 1-loculare; stylus columnaris, stigmate capitato; 

 ovula numerosissima, placentis parietalibus carnosis indeflnite nume- 

 rosis undique inserta, anatropa. Fructus subbaccatus, irregulariter 

 multilocellatus. Semina numerosissima, minuta, obovoidna v. pyrifor • 

 mia, funiculo recurvo. — Flos majusculus, bracteatus, radicibus Vitis 

 innatus ; bracteas subspiraliter imbricataa. 



B. Zippelii (Blume 1. c). Tn Javas sylvis, radicibus Vitis tuberculatse parasitica 

 (Zippel). — R. Brown 1. c. v. 19, p. 244; Miquel Fl. Ind. Bat. v. 1, p. 2, 

 p. 684. Alabastra 2 poll. diam., cupula e cortice Vitjs formata, lobata, extus 

 verrucosa, lobis demum patentibus inserta. Bracteae ad 20, sub 5-fariam laxe 

 imbricatae, inaequales, ovato-lanceolatae , concavEe, subacutae, integerrimae, 

 perianthium laxe cingentes, fusco-purpureae, nitidae; exteriores breves; inte- 

 riores 2 poll. longae. Penanthium 4-6 poll. diam.; tubus basi contractus, extus 

 lsevigatus, intus et ramentis fuscis densissime vestitus,ore callis 15 inter ra- 

 menta occultis coronato; limbus 5-6-partitus sordide albus ; segmenta in- 

 aequalia, ovato-lanceolata, convexa, intus (apicibus attenuatis exceptis) 

 ramentis lanata, extus laeVigata, concava, demum in lacinulas 2-3 dislinctas 

 v. coheerentes fissa ; apicibus lacinularum inflexis aestivatione in cavitatem 

 centralem columnae genitalium intrusis. Columna genitalium pollicaris, pe- 

 dicello crasso sulcato ; capitulum £- \ poll. latum, yertice longe piloso levi- 

 ter sulcato, pilis nigro-fuscis basi incrassatis, infra verticem papillosum pa- 

 pillis clavatis. Anthera spongiosse. Ovarii locellis confluentibus. Descript. pro 

 max. part. ex Blume 1. c. (v. s.) ^ 



fi, Lowi, bracteis latioribus ovato-rotundatis, floribus dioicis, antheris 

 50-60. Ins. Borneo ad flum. Bruni (Low.). B. Lowi BeccarJ in Atti Soc. 

 Ital. sc. Nat. v. XI, p. 197. et in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. p. 85, p. 5. 



Tribus IV. APODANTHEM Br. 1. c. p. 246. 



Flores unisexuales. Perianthium dichlamydeum, 4-merum v. 

 oo-merum, foliis imbricatis. Antheree infra apicem columnee 1-3- 

 seriatae, sessiles, 1-loculares, v. in annulum columnam cingentem 

 confluentes. Ovarium inferum, 1 -loculare ; placentae parietales 

 distinctee v. confluentes ; ovula orthotropa anatropa v. semiana- 

 tropa. Fructus superus v. ~ - superus. Embryo indivisus, homo- 

 geneus. — Flores solitarii v. aggregati, in ramulis caulibusve 

 plantarum Dicotyledonearum parasitici, subsessiles, bracteaa a 

 segmentis perianthii haud v. vix distinctae. 



VI. APODANTHES Poiteau in Ann. Sc. Nat. v. 3, p. 422; R. Brown l. c. v. 19 

 p. 246. — Pilostylis sp. Gardner in Hook. lc. Pl. sub. tab. 655. 



Flores dioici, 2-bracteati. Sepala4, |--supera, basi latissima inserta, 

 persistentia, aestivatione sub-2-seriatim imbricata. F l. masc... Fl. fasm. 

 Ovarium j-superum, 1-loculare, loculo 4-gono; stylus brevis, crassus, 

 stigmate depresso-capitato, vertice intruso papilloso; ovula numero- 

 sissima, parietibus loculi undique fere affixa, orthotropa. Fructus car- 



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