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Spadix inter frondes laterales proveniens, circiter quatuor pollices longus. Pcdunculus comprcssus, 

 arcuatus, dcusissime vestitus tomcuto grisco - fusco, c floccis tortis clavatis vcl irrcgidaribus constantc. Rachis 

 bi - rarius tri - vcl quad ri partita, uti pcdunculus tomentosa, a basi ad apiccm usque dense obsita floribus 

 minutulis, pro focmincis in arcolas elliptic^ excavata. Bracteae parvac, lato - triangulares ad basin florum, 

 quoque tomentosac, 



FLORES MAHCULI caduci, nou observati. FLOURS FOEMINEI virides. Calyx minutus, annuliformis, 

 subtridenticulatus, glaber. CoiiOLLA cylindrica, ore subtruncato, pilis crectis hirta, lineain longa. Pis t il- 

 ium paruin exscrtum, virens; ovario cyliudrlco glabriusculo , stigmattbus lato - triangularibus. DttUPA sub- 

 globosa vel obovato - globosa, vestigio stigmatum vcrticali aucta; cpidcrmide coccinca, glabra, corticc tcnui 

 subsicco, pat amine globoso, juxta vcrticcm triporo. Nucleus homoideus, testa tcstaceo-fusca, albumin e 

 lactco , c m b r y o n e pall i do ochrolcuco. 



Crcscit in sylvis aboriginibtts Provinctac Paraensis. Desmpta y dum fnictus habebat, mensc Augnsto. 



tCOy* EXP1 Tab. 00. Bactris pectinata com B. hirta cl Astrocaryo gynacantbo in sylva primasva depieu, magnitudinc vicic* i mm inula. 



Tab. 73. A- F>£. L Summitaa taudicis frndtferi* res*clU pcuolis. 

 Ovarium (m. a.f- 5. Drupa. 6. Putaraen. 7. Horn medio «lU*ectani (m. n.). 



Utidino naturali. II. Pinna (m. n.). — 1* Flos focmincod. 2. Calyx. 3. Corolla. 



9. BACTRIS CONCINNA. Tab. 78. Fig. 4. 5. 6. 



1L caudtcc tenui medioeri aculeato, rachi poslice actdcata antice htermi pitis dcstituta, pinnfs pectinalis concinnis lineari - sublanceo- 

 tatis acuminata cilialk; spidha aeuteata; spadice simpiici, dntpis obhngo - obouatLs. 



D E S C li I PT 1 0. CaVDICES plerumque plures consociati, in decern ad quiiidccim pedum altitudincm crccti, 

 terctes, diametro pollicari vel paruin crassiores, castaneo ~ cincrasccntes , distantia triuni ad quatuor pollicum annulati, 

 unnulis paruin impressis laevigatis fusco - pallidis, aculcati, aculeis pollicaribus vel longioribus subulatis compressis 

 nigris ct plerumquc crectis* 



FnoyDES caudici subaltenic insidentes ct terminates, habitu concinno, quadri - ad sexpedales, parum curvatae, 

 patentes. Petioli basi lanccoluta in dorso convcxa versus margincm tcnuiorc et membranacca sessilcs, antice 

 longitudine pedis aut paruin majore pinnis destituti, dcin abcuntes in rachin subtus levitcr convexam superne 

 acute bifacialetn , obscure fusci , versus basin , ut caudex, aculcati , aculcis majoribus minoribusque, inter infimas 

 pinnas similibus nouuullis aculeis armati, auticc vero iuermes, pilis destituti setl liinc inde tomento lepidoto 

 fusco adspersi. Pinnae pectinate - dispositae, plenunque subaltemae, distantia inter singulas circiter pollicari, 

 lineari - sublanccolatac et acuminata^, pedctu vcl pedum cum diiuidio longac, sursuin decrescendo minorcs, in 

 medio octo ad decern lineas latae, nervo in edio utrinquc prominentc ct lateralibus pluribus r quorum cir- 

 citer sex distinctiores, percur^ae, margine setis nigris lincnm longis nonnullarum lincarum distantia dispositis ciliatae^ 

 flavcseenti - virides, nervis colore dilutioribus. 



Spamx ex axillis frondium su]KTionnn. Ped u n on Lufl quiiiqtie ad sex pollices longus, coinpresso- 

 teros, latitudine subaetpialis, ct quidem triuni circitur vel quatuor linearuin, iusceseens, setis nigris erectis, 

 praesertim in superiore parte frequenter obsitus, abiens in rachiu simplicem, quam flores in cylindrum apicc 

 acutiuM'ulum <lispositi densissimc vestiunt SPATIIA exterior tres pollices longa vel parum longior, angustc 

 et lineari - lanceolata, dorso cononva ct ad nmrgincs cariuato - dilatata, ventre convexa, apice longitudinalitcr 

 bifida, membranacca, cxarida tandem longitudinalitcr dissolvcnda, passim toincnto fcrmginco adspersa. Fn- 

 tori or longitudine pedunculi spadicis, couq^esso - teres, striata ct parec tomentosa, cacterum incrmis, antice 

 vero, ubi llores obvolvit, oblongo - lanceolata cum brevi mucronc, viridi - iusecscens, longitudiualitcr sulcabi 

 ct aculeis tres ad quatuor lineas longis nigris, iina basi intus albo - geniculatis t subsetaceis horrida , intus testacca 

 dcin oinnanmmea. 



FLOURS MASCULI tbemincis multo plures, in spadicis parte superiore absque lbemineis interjectis, in iu- 

 leriorc subbini quemvis focmincum ad latus circumstautcs, ita ut hi omnino non appareant, nisi masculis decerptis. 



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