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multiovulatis. Staminodia infima ovaria 

 parum superantia. — America centralis. 

 Wend land. — v. v. cult, a Wendlandio 

 communicat. 

 54. rubens. S. fSynops. p. 84. 1856.) Petiolus 

 striolis parum elevatis asperatus , cjuam la- 

 mina longior. Lamina fol. triangulare-ova- 

 ta, apicem versus sensim angustata, brevi- 

 ter-cuspidata, lobis posticis distantibus, ro- 

 tundate-semiovatis, elongato-subretrorsis. 

 Costae posticae in sinu aperto inferne bre- 

 viter denudatae. Venae (lobi antici) sub-6, 

 patentes, inferne rectiusculae, apice tantum 

 arcuatae, \enastris comitatae. Pedunculus 

 brevis, ruber, albide-striatus. Spatha 6-pol- 

 licaris; tubus oblongo-ovoideus, haud mul- 

 to- 1. vix ventricosus, extus viridis, albo- 

 punetato-striolatus, intus amoene rubro- 

 purpurans; lamina lubo sesquilongior, ere- 

 cta, navicularis, sensim angustata in cuspi- 

 dem reclam, conoidcam, extus viridis, den- 

 siuscule interrupte-albo striolata, intus ru- 

 bro-purpurea. Spadix spatba multo brevior, 

 medio constrictus; pars feminea tertiam 

 partem occupans. Ovaria pallide-virentia, 

 stigmalibus albis majusculis, 3-4-locularia, 

 loculamentis multiovulatis. Staminodia infi- 

 ma vix ultra ovaria prominuia. FrucUis spa- 

 thae lamina abjecta , tuboque disrupto 

 fragmentis recurvis involucralus, ovoideus, 

 pallidissime-roseo-albidus. Baccae obconi- 

 cao; polyspcrmae. Semina inferne incras- 



