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transverse ovatis obtuais concavis munitus, tomento cinoreo - fiasco adsporsuB, saperne paniculate - divisuB in ramos 

 (inatiior, sex. octovc basi aqunmis eimOibus munitos, oompresso- angulatos, r.-ivntcs ramulos florigcros l>inus. 

 tonio* quntornosvo ercctos vcl patentee et subcorymboso-fastigiatos, spithaniam circii.-r lungos, pennam cygneam crasBOS, 

 viridi - fuscesccntes atquo floribus septem- vol octo&riam imbricatia dense obaitos. Fovene ellipticae, labio e rnclii emer- 

 gente ovato - saborbiculari ml medium usque bifido ad basin instructae, maaculae bi- vel triflorae, foemineao uniflorae. 

 SPATHAE structura, uti in reliquis descripsimus, lonceolfltao, obtusae, fore Bpitbamam longae. 



fi.oiu-s MA8CULI: Calyx eoroHam aunaequans, eonatana folio-lia lanceolato - acummatia, 'margine te- 

 nuiore albicante intcgenimis vel apico Bubtilissime aerralatis, doreo nervo upadiceo crassinsoulo percursis caeterum 

 pollide tcataceis. COTtOLLAE pctala basi nonnihil cohaerentia, planiuscula, lanceolata, acuta, nervis pluribua parum 

 conspicuis percursa, pallida, intas maeescentia. STAMINA sex connata in tubum subtrigonum vcl tcrcriusculum, 

 ultra dimidium serfdom, album. Pilamenta planiuscula. Anthorae gemmae in qnovis filamento vix totins nrceob' 

 dimidiam partem aequantes. FLORES F<> EM I X E I; OAVTX corollam longitudino aequans. Foliola subaequalia, 

 laueeolata, acuta, nervosa ct carinata, concava, testaceo- pallida, in marline tenmore Bubmembisnacco ct versus apicem 



vix ac lie vix quidem scrrulato albiria, in carina f'tiBca. COItOLLAE petala priinuni basi nicinlminac tcncrriinac ope 

 coliaerontia, atque tubum subtrigonum constituentia, dein a so invicem soluta, lanceolata, acuta, planiuseula, nervosa, 

 margine tenuissime denticulata, pallide fusca. Cylindrue scu urceolus ovarium involvens longitudine corollae, albus, 

 cvlindricus. basi gfoboBO-veatricOBUB, medio paulo constrictus, ore divisus in dentcs Bex Uneares, supra verticeni fioris 

 stellate -patentcs, albos, medio longitudinaliter sulcatos atoue anthems referentea. Ovarium glolmsum. Stylus rilifor- 

 mis. Longitudine fioris. Stigma essertum, trifidnm, laciniis linearilms uncmato-revolutis. JiACCAR immatone, fjuas 

 vidi. ovato -olUpticae, magnitudine nuclei nucis avcllanae, calvcis coroIlaecMic persistentiuni minis sutVultac, primuui 

 virides, dein atro-violaceae, ramia fructiferis tunc incrassatis et obesls, glabrae, nitidae, came tenui involventes nu- 

 clei! in lionioideinn generis. 



OBSEBVATIO. Species habitu firmo et cleganti conspicua, dicta est in momoriam el. SPfXIJ. viri ami- 

 cissinu, in itinera per Brasiliam labonim pcriculoniniijue socii strcnuisshni. 



Creseil frc/ticns in $>/fois Provhiciac a jlttminc niyro dictae, ad Japuvti fluuiuni ct alibi Januario — 

 Mar/io lecta. 



IGOTt. EXPL. Tab. 15. Gconomi Spixlnnn Integra, (mngniluiline droller deeies immiiiula.) Tab. 1G. t Frons. (miigiL imrain.) II. Apex frondls. 

 III. Spntbne cIiiunic IV. Spadix ibemiiion. *ub nulbeii. (m. a.) — 1. Flos masculus. 2. Ftiliola eal veins. 3. Corolla nperta cum staminibus. 4. IV-lalum M-paratum. 

 5. I'rceoliw eum itaurfM. Ij. Flos foemiucus clnuttos. 7. Idem iipcrlua. $. Fnliola cnlvciiiu. It. Ci>mlln euni cjlindro denlato. 10. l'clnla. 11. Cylindros denutus euio 

 exsert" Mylo. 12. I'istillum flore exemlum. — Tub. 21. Fig. 3. exbibet caudicis partem suprvmam com inxidcntibm peiiolU frondiam, quorain intcriorcs exemti in li^urn 

 notsta Bcoroim depingunlur. 



11. GEONOMA PYCNOSTACHYS. Tab. 17. 



ti m caudice aruwtinacco t frondibus latcratibus tcrminafif/ust/ue lincavi - obtonr/is brevitcr hifidis f s/xtdicthm simpHcJ- 

 bus androgynU vfflosis, fl&ribtiS demmimis* cah/cibxts mascnUa corollas subaeqnantibux barbatts } baeci$ ovath 

 acutm$cidi& 



f> fCSC ff I PT I fh Cai'DEX qnadri- Jul eoxpcdolis, rcctits, jjr;ieilis» crassitie Annulhiis Plira^initis'. dishmtin 

 duorum circiter pollicmn notatiis fVondium delapsarum cicatricibus , {fosoesocnti-Havus, lacvjjrntus, nitidus, qnam pluri- 

 maruni specicrom traj{ilion 



FnONDES plurimae in superiore parte caudicis spuraac, paucac tenninalcs, patontcs vcl subrovolutae, duas 

 circiter spithama^ longae. ((iiinque ad sex pollicea latae, enporiorcs nunores, brevitor pctiolatae, liucari - oblongae, 

 versus basin attenuatae. apice brcviter exciso - btfidaOj crnribus Bubtriangularibua acutis vel muexonatis, niaa 

 acutu latiusculi*. nervis in distantia triinn linearuui parallel IS, quorum allemi supra vel subhis prominent, per- 

 cursae, saturate virides, jrlabrae praeter uorvoa inferioroa tomento griseo - fusco adspei*sos. Potioli tri - ad sex- 

 pollicareB, instructi basi evlindriea oblique transverse nervosa vaginante, parte antiea, intus carinato - concjiva t 

 in margine acuta, in dorso convexa tomento griseo - lusco adspcrsa, raclii supeme acute biiacmli subtufl de- 

 presso - convexa. 





