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FRONDES numcro sex ad decern, arcnato - patentee, illis eongcnerum similes, irreyulariter pinnato - fissae. 

 Pinnae sex ml duodeeim pariuin, suboppositac, spithamam longac, oblongo - laiiccolatae, basi attcnuatae, sncpe e 

 nervis itcrum fissae in pinnae duas trcsve, nervo medio olbido in ntroque latere pxomincnte et lateralibna tribus 

 quatnorvc totidemque tenuioribua pcrcursac, glabrae, saturate virides, subtus pallidum*. Rachis inter pinnas subtus 

 leviter oonvexa atque tomento fusco dctergibili adspersa, supra acute bifaeialis. Petioli ad basin circiter pedis longi- 

 tudinc nudi, in dorso eonvexi, lateribns membranaceia amplcxieaulcs. 



SPADLX subhorizontalih-r patens, pedalis vol sesquipedalis. Pedunculus basi semilunari caudieem amplecteiis. 

 compresso - ancops, squamis duabus, tribus qnatuorvo ovato - subrotundis adpressis munitiis, longitudinalitor striatus atque 

 hinc bide tomento fusco obsitus; apice divisus in romos duos ad quatuor, patentee, circiter quadripollicares, qnonun sin- 

 guli ad basin squama semiorbicnlari vestiuntur. SPATRAE dnae, membranaceae, in peduueulo seniles; exterior longior, 

 sex ad octo polliccs oequans, lancoolata, dorso eonvexa, apice bifida, intos plana, bine hide tomento rufo adspersa; inte- 

 rior compresso - anceps, ore subtruncato, tenuior, glabra. 



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FtORES laxe dispositi. plcmmquc bini, rarius tcrni, immcrsi foveae, quae labio inferiore lato - semiorbicnlari in 

 marginis tennioris albicantis medio denle aeuto praedito inunitur. JfASCULXS: CALYX triphyllus. Foliolfl lancoo- 

 lata, acuta, versus basin parum altenuata, cartuato -concava, stramineo - flava , vol apice purpurascentia, in carina tu- 

 secscentia, versus apicem squamubs minutissimis fuseis barbata, in margine passim subdentata, compago porgamena 

 siocinscula. COROLLAS calycibus nonnihU breviores, plerumqno connivonticlansae, nee nisi apice pro emisso coUo urceoli 



staminci apertac. Pctala lancoolata, versus basin attenuata, planiuscula vel concava, carinato-uninervia, calvcis substantia 



ct colore. STAMist.v filamenta basi connate in ureeolum conicum membranaceum roseo-albidum, snpeme libera, py- 



ramidalia, plana, apice biaiitlierifera , ante antliesin introrsum plica ta, antberis singulis tunc ad siiiguloriun rilamentorum 

 latcra dellcxis, sub antbesi bo ri /.on tali tor patontibus, clavato - linearibus, ocbroleucis. FO EM IS El non obscrvati. 



Crescit in intcrioribas eyhis Provinciarum J'iaitbiensis ct Muraf/naniensis, locis ntUs. Fforigera lecla mctisc April!. 



ICOy. EXI'L. Tab. 12. Fir. I. Spadix (lorilYr cum spalhii. II. Frondia para ,'Xtima. (m. n.) III. Apex ramuli flnrift-ri. (m. a.) — 1. Flos calycc nonnihil 

 kperto. 2. Foliola calyeina. 3. Corolla a|n-rta, cum cylindro atommifcro, cojua crura adhucdura introraum ilexa sum. -I. lVtala. 5. Pctala connexn. 6. UkcoIus staminum 

 uvoluina. 7. Idem medio diascctus, croribus anthcriferw inirortum Ik-xU. & Cms separatum cum antheri* pendnlis. (omnia m. a.) 



8. GEONOMA SYNANTIIERA. Tab. 13. 



C. frondifius terminalibits (?) pinnato - Jims, pinnis lanceolatis acamiiialis stibfalcalis , spadicibi/s ramosis Jloribm 

 margine hUegerrims approximate qta'nque - vel sexfart'am imbricate, eorollis mascute calyces parum supe- 

 rantitms, antberis sex. 



DESCItTPT 10. CaUDEXi uti oL Pavoniua nobis tradidit, sox- ad deccmpedalis, eroctns, parum floxuosus 

 vel rectus, distantia sesquipollicari annulatus, cacterum laevigatas, stramineo - flavcscens. 



FRONDES decern pluresve, omnea torminalos (?), arcuato - patontcs, quatuor ad sex pedes longae atque uti 

 reliquarum specierum pinnato - fissae. Pinnae suboppositac, pedalcs el longiores, lanceolatae, aeuminatae, bine hide 

 subfalcatae, nervis aliis distantia triuiii lineanun dispositis supernc pronmu-ntibus subtus impressis atque tomento 

 fusco vestitis, aliis inter bos decurrcntibus teiiuioribus albidis percursac. Racliis supernc bicarinata, subtus convoxa, 

 parce fusco - tomentosn. 



SPADJCES MASCf'LI pedalcs et majorcs, sinipliciter nnnosi, robustiorcs. Pedunculus basi semilunari caudieem 

 amplecteiis , spitliamacus et pedalis, compresso - teres, tomento tenui t'usco, praosertim in parte antica involutus, 

 squamis nonnullis ovato - triangularibus acutis fldprcssis notatus, o racbi parum Hexuosa compressiuscula promons 

 rainos florigeros octo ad decern quadripollicarcs, ima basi a floribna liberos, intus planiusculos, dorso convexos, 

 crassiusculos. Squama ovato - triangularis ad singuli rami basin euinque a parte oxterioro ainplcctcns. SPATHAE 

 milii non visac. 



