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plementario apicali vaginam bilabiatam (quasi spatham rudimenta- 

 riam) gerentC; apice in ramos circiter 8, confertos, siniplices, G-polli- 

 cares, teretes, minute pannosos, spiraliter areolatos, floribus dense 

 obtectos, ante florationem sinistrorsum circinatos, postea subrectoa di- 

 visus. FL cJ : sepala petalaque squamseformia, crassa^ rigida, castanea, 



. subpuberula, tuberculis paucis sparsa, aestivatione valvata ; ilia 3-5 

 (plerumque 4) late subulata obtiisiuscula^ lineam longa^ libera vel 

 rarius duo in unicum bifidum coalita; haec 3, longissima (7 lin. 

 longa) anguste subulata subflexuosa. Stamina 12-16 (saepius 13), in- 

 clusa; a?tth€rce paulo supra basin in filamento brevi (^-1 lin.) subu- 

 late compresso posita9, lineares, 4 lineas longae, obtuse 4-gon8e, 2- 

 loculares, longitudinaliter deliiscentes, pilis albidis flexuosis deciduis 

 vestitse, connectivo centrali tenui in niucronem curvulum producto ; 

 pollen globosum, Iseve. SpathcB 6 : 3 exteriores (incompletce MaHii) 

 cuneatse, vaginseformeS; subtrigonse, 4-pollicares, primitus clausfe 

 apiculatae, postea apice irregulariter rupt^, imbricatfe, persistentes ; 

 3 interiores (completae 3Iartii) fere triplo longiores (11 X 3-pollicares); 

 e basi vaginante fusifornies, breviter recur^-irostrae, pergameneae, 

 minute pluristriatffi, arete imbricatse, pro spadicis eniissione lacerae, 

 caducfe ; omnes spathae pilis brevibus appressis fulvis subdeciduis 

 vestitae. 



Spadicis $ stipes 10-pollicaris subcompressusadscenders apice decurvus 

 et ramos 6-7 confertos, fere verticillatos, rectos, patulos^ 8-pollicares, 

 diametro (fructibus inclusis) fere 4-pollieari, proferens. Sepala 3, a 

 basi praelata triangulari brevisubulata, 2-3 lineas longa, inter se sub- 

 inaequalia. ' Petala 3, late 8u"bulata, subflexuosa, 5-6 lineas longa. 

 Ovaria 3, ovalia, 3^ lineas longa, basi inter se et cum stylo coalita, 

 villosa, l-locularia, 1 velsaepius 2 sterilia," ovulum unicum ex baseos 

 angulo interno fere erectum, sessile, anatropum. Stylus unicus cen- 

 tralis, 7 lineas longus, trigono-subulatus, villosus, plerumque cum 

 ovariis abortivis ad ovarii fertilis basin persistens, raro deciduiia ; 

 stiginata 3, teretia erecto-flexuosa, 3 lineas longa, Baccce 1-spermji*, 

 siccae, in spadice densissime collecta;, pressione mutua 3-G-angulari- 

 obpyramidatae, apice lato convexo, pilis cinereis subfasciculatis basi 

 solidis supeme tubulosis flexuosis villosae. Mtmcarpium molliter 

 lignosum, tenuiusculum, apice incrassatum. Endocarpiurn membrana- 

 ceum, rapheos vasibus adhaerens- Seiyien 11 x G-lineare, anguste ovali- 

 obovatimi subtrigouum j testa tenuis, firma, nigrescens, a basi ad api- 

 cem usque raphe tenui percursa et ejusdem vasibus albis cuinplanatis 

 adhaerentibus reticulata, cum nucleo connata. Albumen tequabile, 

 subosseum. Einbryo iu fuveola basilari nidulans, couico-cylindricus. 

 ad nuclei centrum directus. 



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