romorum, quos inter angnlato - flexoosus est Rami recto - patcntcs, pedunculo similes, versus apicem emittentes 

 ramulos florigeroa quatuor ad sex, pa ten tea, rectos Acxuosomvc, terotes, pennam anserinam circiter crasaitic 

 nequantos, sex pollicefi longos, a baai ad apicem brcvitcr miicronntiim usque floribns adspersos. Foveae 

 laxiuseulao et in speeiininibus pinguibna quidem qimdri - vol quinquetariam, in macris subtrilariam imbricatae, la- 

 bio in parte inferiors tt-imi obiter enmrgmato instructao, reeipientcs plcrumquc florcs maHCiiloa tenuis, quorum 

 medius primum assurgit, Ibcmincos voro solitarios. SPATUAE dune, in uiuco specimine tree repertao, rations 

 spadicis parvae, duos ad tres pollices longae, tandem in quinque pollicum longitadinem cxcrcscentes, lanceola- 

 te e, obtosiuscnlae, e membrana tenui facile secundum longitadinem scccdcntc factae, tomento grisco - fusco 

 adspersae. 



MASCULIS: CALYX longitudine duas tertias corollac acquans. Fol iola laneeolata, acuta, carinato - con- 

 cava, pallidc fusccscentia, basi alba, nervo dorsal! subfiisco, margin© tencriorc ftlbido, sub microscopio tenuissime scrra- 

 lato vel integerrimo- GonOZLAE petal a lanceolate- oblonga, aeutiuseula, plana, vel intra apicem concava, saepe 

 a medio ad basin usque connata, doreo ncrvis aequalibus quatuor ad sex subtiUbus percursa, nmrgine integcr- 

 rima, mbenti - fuscn, vel pallide violaseentia. Fil amenta in cupulam miimtaiii connata, sursum longitudine 

 corollac omnino a se invicem libera, tore in medio flcxa, apice radiato- patentia. Antbcrac in qnovis fila- 

 mento binae, ea Qlorum parte, quae supra flcxaram est, paulo breviores, linenres, patentee PIST1LLI RVDt 

 UBNTOU minimum in centra urceoli, ovario ovato, stylo nullo, stiginatibus tribes linearibus acutis rcvolutis. 

 FOJ3&INEIS: Calyx oorollam eubaequans. Folio la lato- laneeolata, aeutiuseula, parnm concava, dorso ncrvo 

 latiusculo carinata, a basi ad medium usque straminco - alba, superne purpuraseentia, vel roseo - purpurasccntia, 

 COROLLA ovato - cylindrical lore ad medium usque trifida, laeiniis triangularibuB obtusiusculis purpurascentibus, 

 cacterum alba. ( ! ylindrus canmsus intra corollam, quain longitudine parum supcrat, apice divisus in lacinias 

 sex obtusiuseulas linenres, supra corollaiu radiato- patentee, albus, involvons ovarium minutum, globosum, album. 

 Stylus basilaris, filiformis, albus, cylindro longior. Stigmata tria subulata, arcuato - re volutu, BACCAE in ramis 

 tunc incrassatis camosis et purpureis globosac, atropurpurcac vel atrne, iminatume tenuissime pubeseentus, ma- 

 turae glabrae. CarO pauea, purpurascens. Nucleus globosus, pallidc fuscus. Albumen solidum, album, durum. 

 Embryo basilaris, conicus, flavescenti-albus. 



Crescit vulgaris in sr/his umbrosis Prouincianon Mamgnaniensis, Paracusis el jtnminis nigri Ftorigera lecta mensibus 

 Jamiario — Aprili 7 fructifcra mensibus Octobri — Decembri 



ICOy, BXPZ* Tab. 4, Gconomac muhiflorac atirpa inlegr* magniiudint: tnullolM iaiminiila. Tab. 5, L Spatlix raasculaa. II. Spatha, quae in hoc 

 specimine triplex. III* Pinna. — 1. Flos ab uiroquo latere. % KJorea duo ? uti hi fovea sibi nppo«ili coiispiriutiiar. 3. Fotinla c:ilyeina. 4. Corolla, 5. IVlalaro. 

 6. Creeolos ItmHolfer. 7* Mem apenaa Can ptatlllo olxmivo in medio. (1 — 7 m. a.) Tal*. l>. I. Kjasdciu »pvci**i spadix foemineua llorifer. II. Ap^x nimuli florigeri, 

 in qua foveae nonnullae floribtut vacuae, magn* nat + III. Karnulua fructifer. IV. Para aapcrior frondia m. immin. V. Tinnuln ex snporioribua , quae valde falcala. — 

 1, 2, Flos focmincua ab utnxpie latcro tisqa. 3. Foliola ealycia, 4. Corolla, 5. Eadein aperla, 6. Cvltndru* pistillum involvons. 7, Fistillum* (1 — 7. m, a.) 

 8t Dacca o calvce aoluta. 9. 10. Xuclcua, in qno videri [>ote&t raphe umbilkalU eircularid. 11. Nadnns medio dJMcissus, cam fovea pro - i.r-ry>n ■ , qui ud Jalus 

 depictas exliibctnr. 



2. GEONOMA INTERRUPTA. Tab. r. 



G. frondibus terminaiibus phtnafo-jissts, phmis falcato-acuminatis, spadidbus panlculato -multi fidUj Jloribus yuadri- ad fptinqae- 

 fariam imbricatis, baccis elliplicis. 



MAUTINEZIA INTEIlllUPTA, frondibus interrupt* pinnatis, folio/is fatcatis. Ruiz (it Pav. syflt I. 

 I). 296. (fide spe&minis a ci. PftVOUlO commnnicati). 



J) ESC RIPTKh Caudex more rcliquanim aunulntus distantia BesqnqwlUcarij teres, cmssitic ultrapollicari, 

 nitidus, uti arumlines indicac flavescens, sexorgyalis* 



FRONDES duocleoim ad quiudeeini, pedes octo vel novcm longae, arcuato - patcntes, omnes tenninales, pinnato- 

 fiasae. Pinnae distantia dncmim ad quatuor pollicum anboppositae, sesquipedalcs et bipedales, trcs ad quatuor polliccs 



latue, Ianccolatae atquc sapernc introrsam thlcatae acmuiuaiae, joniores plorumque latiores et nouuihil breviorefl| ma- 

 crone inter ipsas e rachi emisso setaceo brovi, glaberrimae, aitide virides, distantia unguiculari percursae ncrvis palli- 

 dioriboB Buperne valde promincntibus stibtus iinpressis, inter quos alii deeurrunt minores superne iinpressi, subtus 

 promimil] ibiquc parce tomento lerrugineo adspersL Petioli basi ima laneeolata, va^inantes, anticc circiter 

 pedis com dimidio longitudine nudi, subtus carinato - convexi, aupra concavi, niarginibus acutis; rachis infra con- 

 vexa, supra bitacialU. 



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