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vertice truncate clavata, tenuia, longa, pri- 

 mum sursum arrecta, deinde vaga, ova- 

 ria multo superantia. Ovaria 7-8-locularia, 

 loculamentis sub-4-ovulatis. Stamina per 

 paria regulariter coordinata. Baccae sordi- 

 de-flavae, loculamentis oligospermis. Semi- 

 na sordide-flaventia, elliptica, striata. — 

 Brasilia. — v. v. spont. et cult. 

 6. crassinomiini. Lindl. (Bot. Reg, t. 1958.) 

 Caudex elongatus, prorepens, subscandens, 

 internodiis elongatis. Petioli semiteretes, 

 hebetato-acietati, tenues proportione. La- 

 mina fol. oblonga 1. lanceolato-oblonga, cu- 

 spidato- acuminata, basin versus cuneata, 

 pedalis 1. sesquipedalis. Costa petiolo multo 

 crassior, tumida. Spatha 3-4-pollicaris, fere 

 ad basin usque evoluta cymbaeformis, apice 

 apiculata, tubo extus virente, intus e fundo 

 laete-purpureo plus minusve laminam ver- 

 sus in viridem colorato ; lamina utrinque 

 albida, breviter ovato-scaphiformis. Stami- 

 nodia infima vertice truncata, breviter-cla- 

 vata crassula, haud longa, porrecta ovaria 

 parum excedentia. Ovaria 4-5-locularia, lo- 

 culamentis piuriovulatis. Stamina irregu- 

 lariter per tria coordinata. — Brasilia. — 

 v. v. spontan. et cult. 

 Synon. Ph. planinervium. C. Kch. 



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7. linguifolium. S. (Synops. I. p. 74. 1866. J 

 Petiolus tenuis. Lamina fol. obverse-oblon- 



