134 BR. n. SPEUCE OK [Iriartca 



Hah 



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lit etiam in tola planitie fluminis Amazonum superioris, et prsecipue 



Andium orientalium radicibus ubi ad 4000 



asceudit. Taxiuha harriyuda Brasiliensium, Barriffon Veneziola- 

 norum, Tarapoto Peruvianorum (S, Jib, Palm, 26). 



subaculeataram exsertarum 



jequilatero sub-6.pedali oriundua, 50-100-pedalis, diametro basali 8- 

 pollicari, secus medium in ventrem fusiformem diametro 20-poUicari 

 et majore dilatatns, secus apicem iterum cylindraceus gracilis, annulis 

 spatio fere pedali dissitis notatus. 

 Folia pauca (sub 7) eontemporanea, 18-pedalia, pinnata ; petiolm sub-- 

 teres 4 poUices diametro, ejus vagina \ix pedali ; rhachis trigona, 

 angulis superne magis acutis, tomento griseo appresso vestita ; ptnn<B 

 plurijugse cuneato-flabelliformes, basi cartilagiaea reduplicata adfixse, 



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percursse 



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demum fere usque ad basin in lacinias 10 fissse, lacinia infima multo 

 longiore (5-pedali) latioreque, superioribus sensim decrescentibus, su- 

 prema vix ultra 2-pedali, omnibus laciniis apice late sinuato-dentatis 

 et e venulis excurrentibus erosis denticulatisve. 

 Spadices longe infrafoliares, ssepe ex eodem annulo binati, If-pedaleSj 



teres, ba^i abrupte dilatato-amplexicaulisj rayni sub-3-pedales, dia 



metro 4 lineas, conferti et basi dilatata subcontigui, simplices v. prope 



profunde alveolati. Sjmtha 



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Martio) 



infcriores tardius, decidua?. 



fructu 



turato jam dilacera mibi solum visa. Bacc^ diametro 10 lineas 



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globosfe, subgibbse, apice depressse umbonatseque, nigro-badise ; cpx" 

 catpium tenue fragile j mesocarpitiin l^lineamcrassum moUe siccius- 



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vasibus 



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infra seminis medium lateralis, ab hilo 4^ lin. distans 



Solim 



eastern 



Peruvian and Equatorial Andes, up to a height of from 4000 to 



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in the Andes as ** Tarapoto." There 



Pajtiuba barriguda 





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granite hills of the Caaiquiari, XJpp^ IRio Wegro, and 

 Orinoco, where it is called " Barrigun/' 



AVell-grown plants are from 60 to 100 feet high. In a specimen 

 cut down at the cataracts of the Bio Negro, the whole height was 

 C3 Enijlish feet ; the cone of exeerted roots 5i feet (but on another 



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