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3, ASTROCARYUM GYNACANTHUM Tab. 60. 61. 



A. caudc$cem f humilius; phmis lanceolatis , sub/us pallidioribus; Jtorum musculorum bractcis pubescenti - tomcnto$i$ } catt/ci- 

 bus intcf/errimis ; foemincorum sessUiton cah/ce coroUaque densissime acu/catis, aculeis subtortis* 



DE SCRIPT 10* GAODEX in altitudincm decern ad duodecim pedum clatus, diamctro ubiquc aequali ses- 

 qui - vol bipollicari, cylindrieiis, laevigatas vol sulcis pa rum impressis longitudinalibus insculptus, cinerco- 

 fuscus, distantia trium ad quatuor pollicum annulis a pctiolorum inscrtionc ortis icvitcr impressis et dilution bus 

 uotatus, aculeis transverse subseriatis in caudieis nodulis proniincntibus subartlculatis, compresso - plauia subulatis nitidis 

 atris horridus. 



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FltONDES habitu compto rogulari, numero octo, decern vol ram plures, patcntcs, levitcr arcuatae, quinq 

 ad sex pedes longae. Pctiol i basi lineari - laneeolata longitudine circiter pedali vol sesquipcdali nudi, dorso 

 scmiteretes, nitidc olivneco - virides, intiis profunde concavi, marline acuto, ant ice subtus convexi, supra 

 sulcis duobns lafis marginalibus cxarati interque COS clcvati in cristum deorsum mag is magisque concavam 

 sursum elevatiorem ct acutiorcin, glabri, incrmes. Pinnae in quovis latere circiter viginti, infimae subal- 

 teniae, superiorea suboppositao, distantia duorum pollicum et ultra dispositac, recto - patentee et subpecti- 

 natac, scsquipedales , medio pollicoin ct ultra latae, sursum iniuorcs, lineari - lanecolabie, in acumen breve 

 acuminatac, plana© vel saepe plicato - sulcatae, nervis nimiruin seeu ndar ii s, quorum quodvis latus circiter 

 quatuor habet satis approximates, altcrnatim superne et subtus proniincntibus, nervo medio et duobns 

 marginal! bus orassioribus, marginc spinulis nigris, tandem obliterans ciltatac, obscure virides, subtus |>;tl- 

 lidiores, glabrae. 



SPADICES inter inferiores frondes provenientos, plcnnnqite duo, intcrdum plures in caudicc adulto, nu- 

 tantes, scsquipedales, si pedunculiim simul sumseris. I'edunculus spitlminacus, compresso - teres, tomento 

 fuseo- grisco ubjqnc adspcrsus et aculeis circiter unguicularibus subulatis com press iuscul is rectis, vel basi 

 subflexuosis, nigris nitidis sursum speetantibus dense horridus. Iiachis circiter spithainaca, teres, emittens 

 rainOS numorosissimos subspiraliter positos atque in cylindricam molem densissime compactos, tcrctes vel mutua 

 compressione triquetros, acutiusculos, floribus in ipso apiee plorumque non cvolutis, omuiuo maaculos, adstautc 

 in cujusvis rami iina basi unico plerumque (lore Ibcminco. SlKITIlA longitudine spadicis, cujus pedunculo basi adnata est, 

 tota obsita villo sursum spectantc lerruginco longiusculo, setis aeuleisquo subulatis nigris adpressis, duas ad quatuor tineas 

 longrs intersperse, supra pcdunculum spadicis cvliudrica, supra ramos iusilormis, sub authesi ventre lougitiidinalitcr aperta, 

 intns laevigata ct tostaceo - fusca. 



FLORES M ASCII LI in spicas biwissiine peduncuiatas sosquipollicares ct bipolli cares congest! atque 

 ibveis immcrsi, quae formantur bractcis membranaccis raclii circumoirca adnatis, superne planiusculis atque 

 faflCO - villosis, in opus foveatum eonncxis; sub anthesi ultra dimidium e foveiS emcrgentes. CALYX triphvllus. 

 minutissiinus, tenerrimus, albidus; loliola triangularia, acuta, plana j integerrima. Corolla tripctala, membra- 

 uacea, ochroleuoa. Petal a obovato - oblonga, versus basin attenuata et lumlo confluentia, nbtusa, erccto - patent ia t 

 intus ad dimidium usque pariete carnostustMilo vestita, laminae parte superiore tenuiore pallidiorc concava. 

 STAMINA ex imo floie, corolla parum longiora. Filament a teretia, sursum nonnihil attenuata, alba- 

 Ant he rac parvulae, uvatae, suberectac, ochroleucae. RODIUENTUU ovarii subtrigonum, vcrtice trilobum, 

 inter stamina. 



Flouts FO EN I X til in romulis br&rissimis c racbi commoni excuntibos nigro - lurtis, vel solitarii vel 

 geminati, sessiles, singuli brae tea magna membranacea transverse subquadrata, medio in dentem brovem aeu- 

 tuni products sutlulti. CaLTX subcoriaceus, annulilbnnis vel nrccol&tns, basi pro transmiaso receptaculo ovarii 

 lorainine rotuudo pervius, ore regulariter truncate vol subtilissime tridentato, in facie exteriore aculeis subu- 

 latis llexuosis erectis nitide atris densissime compactis ipsum longitudine duplo supevantibus ito vestitus, ut ntillo 

 moduj nisi iis <li^uissis, in conspectum veniat GOftOCLA substantia subeoriacea, uti calyx albida, globoso - urceo- 

 lata, basi pervia, ore regulariter truncata, uti calyx aculeata, aculeis eorollam et ovarium stvluuupie tegentibus. 

 Ovarium globosum, pilis minutis tuscis adpressis pubescens, vcrtice a corollae pressionc subjugnlatum, abiens in stvltnn 

 conicum, album i glabrum. Stigma obtuse conicum f rude, muciduiu, album, basi subtrilobum f ex aculeis corollinis exser- 

 tum. I'rupa non visa* 



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