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verso oblongta medio acutis instructs. SpATHA exterior poUicem vol ultra tonga, linearis, acuta, membranaoea, doreo 

 concava, ventre convcxa, margine utrinquc producto subimccps, inermis, tomento fcrrugineo dctcrgibili obscssa; interior 

 tripollicaris, basi linearis, compwsso - anceps, anticc fusiibrmia, post dehiscenfiam Ianceolata, eoriacea, tandem longitudinal iter 

 fibrosa, cxtus fusca, intus teatacea. 



FhORES MASCULI non obserrati. FLORES FOEMXNEI lineam longi, ubique fere in ramis apadicia 

 aesailes. CALYX parvua, membranacens, albus, glabcr, triangularis, angiitis acutis, integerrimus. COROLLA 

 campanulnto - urceolara, ore subtnincato, subporgamena, cxtus setulis crectis caatancis nitidis annate. Pi- 

 stillun. juvenile subc ■ylindrieum, ovario qunm stylus eatia longus panlo oraasiore, stiginatibus parum 

 distinctia, pills ininutisaimia orectis nonmdlis adapcrsum. Vrupa obovflta, magnitudine PiSh Epidermis 

 nigro - olivncea, praesertim juxta vertieem setulis nigris deciduis adapcraa. Caro paroa. Putamen tenue, 

 submembranacenm, cxtus bronnenm, intus testaceum, in vcrticc poria tribus sat rnagnia, duobua coecis, 

 tcrtio pervio, omnibus cxtus tibris stcllato - oonniventibus rcpletis, instructuin. Nucleus obovatus, vcrticc 

 trifoveatus, colore rufo - fuscesccntc. Albumen corncum, solidum, lactco - album, oleosum. Embryo conicus, 

 substuntiae tcnerioris, pallidus. 



Crcscil in stjtvi* Japurensibus et propter Jluvium Soiimovs. lecta mensibm Junuario, Februario et Mar&Q. 



XCOH. EXPL. Tal>. 60. Bactris hirla, una cum «. peclinaia el Aslrocnryo gynacaullio in «ylva primacva, maguiiudiuo vicies imminula. 



Tab. 74. Fig. L Summilas cam •padicibu* fructifcm (m. ...), "«««* ■» loco froadibw (m. parum immia.). & Spate fruciifer cum *ui« iptU* seorsim (m. ...). 

 — I. Flos focmiocot. 2. Ejusdem ealvx. 3. Corolla. 4. PUiffluiu (.... a.). 5. Drupa. fi. 1'utnmcn cum porb, quoa libra* sareoearpu Intrant. 7. I'ulamcn, deraso umm 

 garcocarpio. K. Nucleus. 9. Idem medio dissect as. (n». n.) 



16. BACTRIS BIFIDA. Tab. 7:3. C. Fig. 3. 



II caudice submedioeri, pciiolis basi hnge mbamplexicatdi acidcatissimis antiee iw/uc racheos basi parce acideatis 

 frondibus ciliatis indivisis sufAancedaiis tonyc ameatis profimfo bifidis, laciniis Into - ensiformibus ; spadice 

 ampUei, drupts ovatis. 



DESCUIPTIO. CAUDBX submedioeri statura, sex, octo ad sumrnum decern pedes iiltus, digit! pollicis crassitie, 

 lusccsccns, crcetus. 



FRONDES versus candicia snxnmitatem sparaae, vel terminates, patentee, sex ad octo apithamas longac, 

 indivisac. Petioli basi circitcr bipedali subamplexicanlea , ibioue in dorao aculeis erobcrrimis subulate tenui- 

 bus atris c basi callosa alba oriundis unguicularibus ct polliearibus patentibns borridi, in ventre tandem dis- 

 nnnpendi atquc fibrosi minusquc aculeati; anticc versus laminam deoreacendo inermes vel in aliis armati 

 aculeis nmlto paucioriboa iiaquo longioribus, ibidem in dorso convex! in facie medio carinati, tomento casta- 

 neo instruct. Lamina angusto - Ianceolata, deorsum longe cmieata, ajiirc profundo bifida in lacinias spitlia- 

 maeas vel pedalea tree polUces latas, nervie pluribua diatantia dnarum vel trium lincarum decurreutibus mu- 

 nita interquo cos, praesertim versus basin, aubplicata, in nervis tomento fcrrugineo - griseo e floods et vcsi- 

 eulis minimis constante vestita, margine ciliis minutis nigris caducis anna to, colore obscure viridi atquo sic- 

 cata interdum varios tridis colorcs reaplcndens. 



FLORES et SPATBA non observatL SPADfX simplex, fere spithamaeus. DRVPA in CAhYCE cupulari, vario modn 

 fisso, versus basin annulo nigro picto inquc COROLLA illo dnplo majore ct pari modo picta ovata, magnitudine fere ovi co- 

 lumbini, vcrticc acuta. Epidermis fusco- violaceo- virens, pube tenni fusoidula erecta adaperaa. Caro floeeosa, acidnla, 

 alba. I'utamcn crassum, utrinque aoutum, olivaceo - nigrum, supra medium ports instructuin sat conspicuis, qnos librae 

 sarcocarpii implent tcnucs rigidulae, intus pallide tesfaiceuin ct venosum. Nucleus ovalus, testa pallide iusca, pallidius ve- 

 nosa, album iiic lactco, embryonc conico. 



Crcscil in sylvis inter Coarf c/ JSga, villas in Provincia do Uio ncr/ro dicta. Lecta memo Martio. 



ICON. EXPL. Tab. 73. C. Fig. 111. ^f>an mapnilum'nc qnioluplo imminolD. — 1. Dropa in iiiU-guincDiia lloralibus. 2. I'ulatnen. 3. Idem medio directum, 

 ut embryo appareai. 4. Nurkus. (m. n.) 



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