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rotundate-lobulatis 1. auricula oblongo-elli- 

 ptica retrorsa auctis, medio oblongo, acu- 

 minato, basin versus sensim leviter angu- 

 stato, imo abrupte contracto, brevissime- 

 ansato. Crura petioli in sinu longe denu- 

 data. Venae primariae segmenti medii pau- 

 cae, inferiores pseudoneura a margine valde 

 distantia constituentes, reliquae superiores 

 his insertae; segmentorum lateralium in 

 latere superiore pauciores, infimae pseudo- 

 neura margini magis approximata consti- 

 tuentes. Pedunculi longuli, graciles. Spathae 

 tubus pyriforme-ovoideus, utrinque virens; 

 lamina ovata, cuspidate -apiculata, flava. 

 Spadix mediam laminam vix superans , 

 spica feminea cylindroidea, brevis, neutra 

 l>revior, mascula clavata, crassa, obtusis- 

 sima. Synandrodia difFormia. Synandria 

 ex antheris 4, loculis lateraliter oppositis. 

 — Fructus reflexus, spathae tubo croceo 

 tectus, ovoideus. — Patria? — v. v. cult. 

 Synon. Xanthosoma gracilis. Mi quel. 

 i). aaritum. 8. (Melet L p. 19. 1832.) Scan- 

 dens, ramis fortioribus, viridibus. Petioli 

 elongati, firmi, ultra medium vagina latiu- 

 scula, apice subulate prominula vaginati. 

 Lamina fol. juvenculae auriculato-sagittata, 

 viridis, adultae sub-5-secta, (i. e. trise- 

 cta, segmentis lateralibus auriculatis) supra 

 laete-viridis, nitidula, segmentis lateralibus 

 falcato-oblongis, obtusule acuminalis, basi 

 sub- 1. longule -ansatis, latere superiore 



