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3. EUTERPE EDULIS. Tab. 32. 



A*, frondibus pinna/is conchmU pectinatii rachi nerooque phmarum huge aciaainatatwn medio subtus leptdotis . ./?©- 

 ribus la.vr dispositis, fvliolit calyciim mascutis suborbicidartbus, pefalis lanceolatia cah/ce triplo longionbus, 

 ttuccis f/tobosiff. 



Pa/ma ./ocara et Jucoara, Marcg. Bras. p. 133. c. i<\ (descr. ct aomen, qiioil rectius 

 Jo?ara. inutil.) 



Cocos de Palmito, Cocos dc Jissara. Maximilian Prinz von Nouwied Rcisc nach Brasilia. 

 I p. 271. 



DESQR I PTUX Hadices olivaceo - ftiscesoentes, oylindraceae, crassitie digiti, in caespitom subglobnsum vol 



saepe oonicuin. pedis altitudine supra terrain ciner<rentem, confertae. 



CAVDEX orceins, octoginta ad centum pedes altns, cylindricus, basi intcrdum paalo crassior, crassitio semipcdali 

 vel ultra, laevigatas vel rimulis parvis longitudinalibus apertus, cinerasecnti -albus, annulis a dclapsu tVondimn ortis 

 param prolimdis in distantia triuin vol quatuor pollicum notatus. 



FrOISDES omnes terminates, in qomam amoenam oonspirantos, quindceim ad viginti, horizontaliter fere 

 patcntes, vol arcuatac vel rarins rectiuseulac. Petioli basi viridi - olivacca nitidu glabra in oylindrum vel 

 omuino tcrctem vol nonniliil compressum oonvoluti, quadri - vol quinquopedalem; iudo a basi ad primas pinnas 

 usque unius vel duorum pedum longitudine juidi et ex ovato attcnuati; rachi subtus convoxu - semiteretes, 

 supra postice ad basin concavi antieo bifaciales, iaciehus sub augulo acuto eonvonientihus, ubiquc, praescrtim 

 vero in pagina superior©, squnmulis sivc ramentis castaneis tandem evanidis lepidoti. Pinnae scptuuginta ct 

 octoginta parium, COncinnflO, peetinatac, suboppositac, posticae remotiusculac, anticac approxhnatae sihiqiic 

 incumbeutes, sesquipodales, vix pollicem latae, lineares, aemninatae, norvo medio albido subtus prominente et squa- 

 mulis minutis rufo - fnscis detergibilibus adsper&O, ncrvis latcralihus senis, marline guhiucrassato pallido, glaberrimao, 

 lacto virides. 



Spadis vol solitarius vel plures, primum intra vaginas petiolorum, quibtis delapsis evolvuntur, crecto- 

 pateilteg. Peduneulus brcvis, basi semicircular! erassa candid insideus. H a eh is scsquipedalis vel longlOT, 

 obsolete tetragons, ramus numerosos, viginti, trigiuta, pluresve emittens, ad eoram basin scrobiculata atquo 

 bracteis Into - ovatis obtusis brcvibus munita, uti rami adspersa pulverc ochrolcuco- pallido, in jutiioribus nitido, 

 tandem fuscoseente et plus minusve obsolete. Rami pedales et sosquipedales, subfastigiati, tioimihil inter 

 flores llcxuosi, sub authesi creeti, fructiferi vero a raehi angulo recto divarieati, rotundatu- trigoni. Spat ha 

 duplex, utraquc membranacea, pallida, glabra; exterior interioris duas eircttcr tcrtias tegons, lancet »lata. 

 acuta, ventre transverse apcrta, dorso coiicava, ad marines elevata, extus tandem lon^ittulinalitor rumpcilfl 

 tacileque seccdens; interior clavato-cylindriea, apice mucronata, tandem ventre hianSj intra exteriorem pedunculo 

 spadicis inscrta. 



FLOItES laxiuscule supra ramos sparsi atquO scrobiculls parum impressis insideutes co ordinc, ut partem 

 ramorum posticam tbeminei OC<mpcnt ; ap]>ositis cuivis foemineo duobus masculis, anticam vero masculi solum- 

 modo teneant 11 r a etc a e mimitac pro ternis floribua, foemineo niunrum medio maseulisque binis lateralibus. 

 ttes, transverse ovatae, acutae, membranaceae, pallidae, quarnm exterior dorsalis basi uti spadix est pulveru- 

 lenta, duae intenoivs sibique opj>0Sltae magnitmlino sunt inacqualcs, majuro rninorem ad latera amplectente. 

 FhOHXJM UASCIJLOK'tIM calyx vix tcrtiam corolhio partem longitudine aequafc, pergomenus, aridiusculus, 

 palliduSi colore palcarum ZSAE MAIDIS* Foliola ovata, obtusa, maigine sibi imbricato, oarinato - coneava. 

 Co HOLLA E petala lato - lanceolatu, acuta, coriacea^ atro - purpurea, longitudinaliter striis tcnuibus notata. 

 STAMINA e fiindo corollae, quam longitudine nun oxcodunt Filament a una basi in corpus camosmn eoale- 

 seentia, superno libera, brevia, interne latiora, compressa, alba. A nthcrac orectac, linearcs, basi sagittatae, 

 ochroleucae, polline albo ferctaa PlSTlLLUM CASSUM breve, triquetrum, in stigmata tria brevia desinens. Ft <)- 

 RES FOJSMINEI masculis duplo fere brevioros. OaLYX coriaceo - siccus, pallidc oehrolcueus. Foliola lato -ovato- 

 orbicularia, coneava et imbricato - oonvoluta corollanupie omuino vestieutia } lou^itudinalitOT striata, ad marlines teitoriora. 

 Co HOLLA ealvei omnino siinilis, ahjuc cum illct in flnrcm ovato - globosum .consptrans. Petala lato - ovata, acuta, 



albido - pallentia, apice tenuitor violaseentia, Ovarium ovatum, gial 



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