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TUPISTRA* nútans. 
Nodding Tupistra. 
HEXANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
Nat. ord. AroIDEX. 8 ?? Taccee. 
TUPISTRA.— Supra, vol. 9. Sol. 704. 
T. nutans ; spicà petiolis breviore obtusissimá nutante, floribus densissimè 
approximatis campanulato-pateriformibus unibracteatis,— Wallich MSS. 
Planta acaulis, foliosa, solitaria, omnibus partibus levissima. Rhizoma 
carnosum, pallidum, «crassum, propter cicatrices ‘insertionum foliorum an- 
norum praeteritorum transversim et subparallelè annulatum, indivisum, 
perpendiculare, rectum, deorsúm attenuatum, et fibras radicales exserens 
crassiusculas, teretes, albicantes, leviter ramosas. Folia circtter sex, omnia 
radicalia, erecto-patula, obscure bifaria, apice nutantia, oblongo-lanceolata, 
extrorsúm attenuato- subacuminata, basi acuta, vix undulata, subplicata, 
coriacea, secus nervorum tractus oblique lineolata, supra atro-viridia, lucida, 
subtùs pallida; tamen nitidula, costágue elevatá crassá, pedalia, sesquipe- 
dalia; quin bipedalia, evolutione convoluto-infundibuliformia. Petioli bifariò 
suberecti, foliis pluries breviores, tri-quadripollicares, cylindrici, profundo 
sulco supra exsculpti, deorsàm valdè ampliati, basi latissimá bifariè im- 
bricantes rhizomatisque superiorem partem arctè amplectentes. ‘Scapus cen- 
tralis, è vertice rhizomatis, erectus, teres, petiolis sepiüs brevior, tripolli- 
caris, pallidus, ‘pennam anserinam crassus, apice incurvá subincrassatd 
icigerus, nudus salvi basi involutá, bracteis duabus membranaceis ipsum 
Te o equantibus, sursùm omninò liberis strictis subconvolutis, oblongo- 
lanceolatis, aliquot interpetiolaribus emarcidis latioribus plerumque inter- 
Jectis. Spica terminalis, eylindrico-oblonga, obtusissima, bi-tripollicaris, 
pollicem et ultrà lata, nutans, demùm omninò decurva scapoque parallela, 
floribus tecta densis, inodoris, ex viridi Fuscescentibus, minutim purpureo- 
punctulatis, sessilibus è rachi angulo recto divergentibus, suffultis bracted 
solitariá, membranaceá, ovatá, acutá, lineas tres longá, basi latá, fundo floris 
adpressá extrorsúm patente, demùm reflexá, infimis paucis nunc vacuis per 
apicem scapi vagis. Perianthium campanulato-pateriforme, carnosum, semi- 
pollicem longum, fundo conico acuto albicante subanguloso, limbo paten- 
tissimo sex-fido: lacinie ovate, obtuse, basi leviter imbricantes, subtis 
virides, supra purpureo-punctulatis lineis duabus marginalibus, tertiáque 
* The meaning of this word is not explained by its author, and we are 
unable to discover it, 
