1320 * HEXANDRIA. MONOGYNIA; Macritia. 



$a, svibtus rore glauco, cvanido, costa media superne vu ele- 

 -vata* ftubius prominula albidiore , nervis in utroque latere o-4, 

 secundariis, parallelis, margine incrassato, pallidiore, incrmi. 

 Spadices solitarii, 2 3, raro plures in eodcni caudiee e iron 

 Vtium inferiorum basi , penduli , 2 ped. et ultra. Bliachis pc 

 dunculo spithamaeo, lignCscens, crassitie digiti , anticc attenua 

 ta, tcres, flexuosa , rarius recta , sirnpliciter ramosa, articulato 

 vaginata, spathis incompletis cylindricis, sursum paulo amplia- 

 tis, emarginato- truncatis, apice alterno altius producto, coria- 

 ocis, tcstaceis, marginc scarioso , fusco, a basi ad apicem usque 

 nervosis, glabris, junioribus rorc tcnuissimo mox deierso l • 

 glauccscentibus. Rami c spathis disticlii, alterni, deflexo-tui 

 vati, i-lVa ped., crassitie pennae cjgneac, teretes, «ti rn« 

 primaria vestiti spatbis sccundariis incompletis, cyatWorin 

 apicc hinc productiore, obliquc ncrvosis, glauccscentibus, ■ 

 lin., antice dccrcsccntibus. Fiores <? 9-12 in <I U0V1S am ^ 

 Amenta cylindrica, 2-lIin., e sinu spatbarum ramearum, 



spatha tertii ordinis cyathiforrni, brcvi. Squama membrw^. 

 testaceo- fusca, suborbicularls, integerrima , subinde » 

 sursum inflcxa, axi amenti pcrfoliatp - adnala, A° res 1 un ; en $. 



3 singuli amcnti circumferentiam nreupantes a tergo rn ^ 

 Spathella s. spatlia partialis campanulato- cupulitornus^ 

 pressa, latcribus oppoiitis crista tcnui subanceps, inde ^ rca l & 

 navicularis, orc transvcrse cmarginata, basi circum l , l noB . 



nata, membrabacea, glabra, testacea, intra S( I ua " ian t V e [i u |a io- 



nihil brevior, florem singulum basi nbvallans. ^P c re (cx« 

 tra hanc? Cal. camjjanulatus, obsolcte trigoi»** ° ^j^ 

 acuto, obscurc tridenticulato, roseo - fuscescens, , au .^, 

 iisquc spathellae immersus, obsolete longitudinahtei , - llSC ula. 

 Cor. testaceo -rosea;, petala lanceolata, erecta , o ' ^ 

 concava, coriacea, extus laevigata , intus longituctjna ^^^ j if1 

 tula , ima basi attenuata, parumque cohaercntia, 2 c . ^ti 

 calyce duplo longiora. Stamina erecta, conniventia, ^ iD . 

 ima basi corollac. Filamcnta brevia, dorso ^onvei ^ t 

 tus subbifacialia, albida. Antherae lineari -oblonpe,^^ 

 subsagittatae, dorso medio appensae, ochroleucae: P abor iu 

 Flores $, uti <f in amento aolitarii, rarius 2-5, rC,1 r l ol i a &W 

 vel pressione oblitteratis. Bacca in calyce et eo ^fce* 

 ovata, stigmatum vestigiis acuta, inagnitudinc <>v ' e l* 

 Squamae eortieales a verlice, ubi minorcs, ad &**?* 2 ^; 



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issimc imbricatae, irregulariter rbombeae, mar6m nar 2inat is / 



ioriliui nounil.il rotunclatis, meclio temiissime e> 9 ^M, 

 •nfcnoribur, rectilincis aneul.. «CUtO, lcviter /°" v \. CI „ s ub<f ' 

 corneac, pallide fuscae, linca ad inargincm mfenor fibr K 



turn obscuriore. Caro tenuis, j.allicle cinereo - »» v | ^» 



obscunoiibus. Nucleus o va to - clobo»u» , te«t« •„' inprd*, 



soliflum. corncu.n, ..Ibu.n. DeMart.. Gre ^ r 7lim^ft 



midix, depressis, ad Hvulot, a /l. St. Francisci** m0 io.* 

 GoyazanacetPernambucanae, ad fronte* n i o J 



4. V. aculeata Hnmb. et Bonpl.', caudice ^^. 

 frondibus flabelliformi-pinnatilidis: pinnis lanC ^°^ s; K 

 bus, ciliato-spinulosis, subtus dense pruinoso-g' 311 ^!^ 

 bus ovato-ellipticis; squamis ihombeis latioribof jq p,. 

 planiusculis. Mart. een. et spec. palm. p- 47« u ° 



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