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nearly entire. Poeppig describes this perianth as having two series of lobes. 
—The pistil, or female flower, is short, subtetragonal, united, for half the 
length from the base, with four broadly obovate scales (the perianth), 
rather longer than the pistil, having a tubercle near the apex with a scar, 
whence we presume the curious flattened filaments have fallen, which we 
believe are common to all the species of the genus, these Mr Gardner 
describes as being deciduous, and they seem to have entirely disappeared 
from our specimens: Mr Gardner has looked upon them as the styles, 
Style, in reality, there is none, Stigma large, peltate, cruciform, the lobes 
alternating with the four scales just described. Ovary as shown in Bor. 
Mag. t. 2951, 1-celled, with four parietal lobes to which the ovules are 
attached. Mr Gardner’s species seems to be distinct from any yet de- 
scribed. We would call it— 
C. Gardneri ; foliis obovatis in petiolum attenuatis ultra medium bifidis 
lobis erectis oblongo-ovatis acuminatis, pedunculis axillaribus, spadice 
florum cylindracea. (Tass. III. IV.) Kk den 
Has. Moist rocky places in shady ravines, Serra de Araripe, Brazil. 
Mr Gardner. n. 1866. ; 
Tazs. III. IV. fig. 1, male flower, back view. Fig. 2, the same, front 
view. Fig. 3, stamen. Fig. 4, female flower. Fig. 5, scale separated 
from the female flower, showing the scar near the apex, whence the long 
flattened filament had fallen :—magnified.)—Ep. . 
Vitta bo Crato, SERTAO OF THE 
Province or CEARA, BRAZIL, 
December 1, 1838. 
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